- a place where you can buy and eat a meal
- We're going to try this Italian restaurant that just opened.
- They stopped at a fast-food restaurant on the way to the concert.
- We had a meal in a restaurant.
- We went to my favourite restaurant to celebrate.
- a restaurant chain/owner
Collocations RestaurantsRestaurantsEating outcompare cafe- eat (lunch/dinner)/dine/meet at/in a restaurant
- go (out)/take somebody (out) for lunch/dinner/a meal
- have dinner/lunch/a meal with somebody
- make/have a reservation (in/under the name of Yamada)
- reserve/ (especially British English) book a table for six
- ask for/request a table for two/a table by the window
- wait to be seated
- show somebody to their table
- sit in the corner/by the window/at the bar/at the counter
- hand somebody/give somebody the menu/wine list
- open/read/study/peruse the menu
- the restaurant has a three-course set menu/a children’s menu/an extensive wine list
- taste/sample/try the wine
- the waiter takes your order
- order/choose/have the soup of the day/one of the specials/the house (British English) speciality/(especially North American English) specialty
- serve/finish the first course/the starter/the main course/dessert/coffee
- complain about the food/the service/your meal
- enjoy your meal
- pay/ask for (especially British English) the bill/(North American English) the check
- pay for/treat somebody to dinner/lunch/the meal
- service is (not) included
- give somebody/leave (somebody) a tip
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatinga1- a self-service restaurant
- If you're too tired to cook, let's go to a restaurant.
- It operates 79 restaurants in 26 states.
- Restaurant workers are often badly paid.
- She decided to open her own restaurant.
- She eats at the hotel restaurant when she travels on business.
- She frequented the restaurant on almost a weekly basis.
- She runs a family fish restaurant on the seafront.
- The hotel restaurant serves a buffet breakfast.
- They argued the whole time we were at the restaurant.
- They walked out of the restaurant without paying.
- We don't do a lot of restaurant dining.
- We had a quick meal in a small local restaurant.
- We would recommend this restaurant to anyone.
- a little restaurant I know in Paris
- a restaurant offering a wide variety of local specialities
- an Asian restaurant specializing in Thai cuisine
- hygiene standards in the restaurant industry
- some of the hottest restaurants in New York
- the country's most successful chain restaurants
- the few local shops and restaurants catering to summer visitors
- the increasing cost of restaurant meals
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- large
- little
- small
- …
- go out to
- go to
- visit
- …
- offer something
- serve something
- specialize in something
- …
- employee
- manager
- operator
- …
- at a/the restaurant
- in a/the restaurant
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French, from restaurer ‘provide food for’ (literally ‘restore to a former state’).
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