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restaurant Definition

res·tau·rant (restə ränt′, -rənt; restränt′)

noun

a place where meals can be bought and eaten

Etymology: Fr, substantive use of prp. of restaurer: see restore

restaurant Synonyms

restaurant

n.

eating place, eating house, dining room, establishment, eatery*, greasy spoon*, hash house*, beanery*.

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.

restaurant Usage Examples

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.
restaurant Quotes

I have known what it was like to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

—Lardner, Ring(old Wilmer)

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