restaurantnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈres.trɒnt/us/ˈres.tə.rɑːnt/A1 a place where meals are prepared and served to customers
Examples
- Smoking is not allowed in this restaurant.
- They do really good food at that restaurant and it's not very expensive either.
- You seemed a bit hesitant about recommending that restaurant - is something wrong with it?
- A lot of new restaurants have started up in the region.
- Their chain of pubs and restaurants brings in millions of pounds a year.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Restaurants & cafes
- all-you-can-eat
- automat
- bill of fare
- bistro
- brasserie
- buffet
- coffee house
- coffee shop
- diner
- drive-through
- eatery
- grill
- internet café
- mess
- roadhouse
- rotisserie
- salad bar
- send
- send out for sth
- à la carte
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Examples from literature
- All of the food was wrapped in paper that showed the name of the restaurant.
- At a sushi restaurant, you sit and the table moves!
- He worked in restaurants and put the money away for his trip.
- He’s in the food business: he works in a restaurant.
- In an expensive part of a city, restaurant space costs a lot, and so do the pizzas.
- In some places the law says that people cannot smoke in restaurants.
- It has many stores – and some very expensive restaurants and cafés!
- It was cold near the door in the restaurant, so I moved to a different table.
- It’s sold by restaurants, supermarkets, and pizza delivery stores.
- Many pizza restaurants and delivery stores are franchises.
- Or call your favorite restaurants and pay them to send food to your house.
- Paris has restaurants from nearly every country in the world.
- There are beautiful hotels and great restaurants – French cooking is also famous.
- They stay at hotels, eat in restaurants, and buy things in shops.
- Think of people working in restaurant kitchens or builders working outside in the heat of the sun.