restaurant
☆ res·tau·rant (res′tə ränt′, -rənt; res′tränt′)
noun
a place where meals can be bought and eaten
Etymology: Fr, substantive use of prp. of restaurer: see restore
restaurant
n.
Types of restaurants include: café, hotel, dining room, inn, coffee shop, sandwich shop, tavern, pub, steakhouse, coffee house, chophouse, tearoom, luncheon, luncheonette, lunch-wagon, hamburger stand, fast-food outlet, fast-food joint, fast-food place, trattoria, ristorante (both Italian), estaminet, bistro, brasserie (all French), creamery, dining car, dining coach, dining saloon, diner, lunch bar, soda fountain, milk bar, hot-dog stand, snack bar, raw bar, sushi bar, automat, rathskeller, rotisserie, cabaret, night club, cafeteria, grill, grillroom, oyster house, barbecue, spaghetti house, deli, pizzeria, canteen.
Converse of object
- them: Nelsons offers a perfect alternative to the continuing popularity of Ciro's Brasserie, our very own Mediterranean themed restaurant.
- non-smoke: Meals are served in the lounge bar and non-smoking restaurant.
- boast: The hotel boasts a very good restaurant for fine dining.
- subsidize: Final salary pension scheme, interest-free season ticket loan, and a subsidized restaurant and gym in our London office.
Modifies a noun
- critic: Are British restaurant critics better than their American counterparts?
- upstairs: There is a licensed bar in the venue, and another bar and restaurant upstairs.
- chain: The property was then sold to a restaurant chain who now occupy the larger of the two buildings.
Adjective modifier
- Indian: Heh, I know the Indian restaurants within a three mile radius of Finchley better than I know the pubs.
- Italian: The Italian restaurant across the road became the company's own private dining room.
- vegetarian: The first two recipes come from The Cranks Recipe Book ( Grafton ), produced by the now famous but once pioneering vegetarian restaurant.
- award-winning: Most recently, Maynard was the chef/patron of the award-winning restaurant Seland Newydd.
- excellent: The Inn offers a wide variety of meals in its excellent restaurant.
Preposition: with
- ambiance: The Definition of Love I saw real love while working at a cozy, candle-lit Italian restaurant with great ambiance and really delicious food.
Noun used with modifier
- seafood: We could almost have been in a French seafood restaurant in Brittany, what with the wonderful array of fresh shellfish on display.
- carte: Our renowned a la carte restaurant serves organic fresh local produce from land and bay.
- gourmet: Dinners will be served on the terrace surrounding the seawater pool or at one of the gourmet restaurants.
- fast-food: The opening of such a fast-food restaurant certainly caused a commotion among the locals.
- pizza: Frank Stone is attempting to start to share the philosophy of revolution under cover of his pizza restaurant.
- upmarket: Prior booking at weekends for upmarket restaurants is recommended.
I have known what it was like to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
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