noun

• A place where people pay to sit and eat meals that are cooked and served on the premises.

  ‘in the past five years numerous cafes, restaurants, bars, and shops have opened’

  More example sentences

  • ‘she stopped to have lunch in an Italian restaurant’
  • ‘On the camp site is a well stocked shop and a restaurant, that also serves takeaway dishes.’
  • ‘The pub now has two restaurants serving anything from sausages to shark steaks.’
  • ‘A large number of pubs serving food and restaurants now offer no smoking areas or no smoking at all.’
  • ‘Fred decides to take his family and friends for a meal at an expensive restaurant.’
  • ‘The market for coffee shops and convenience restaurants has exploded in recent years.’
  • ‘It will be an unique urban quarter with cafes, restaurants and places in which to relax.’
  • ‘A customer of a restaurant is deeply affected by the manner in which staff serve them.’
  • ‘Why not pause to eat at a decent restaurant and have a recommended local wine with your meal?’
  • ‘This is also the place to seek out some of the best, and cheapest, restaurants in the whole of France.’
  • ‘It's one of my favourite restaurants, partly for the food but mainly for the atmosphere.’
  • ‘Along the way are bars and restaurants ideal for a sunset drink in the soft sea breeze.’
  • ‘"I own the Italian restaurant down the street.’
  • ‘All the stores and fast-food restaurants were closed for the day.’
  • ‘He was going to meet her at the most expensive restaurant in town!’
  • ‘She'd taken him out for dinner at one of the more expensive restaurants in town.’
  • ‘The resort's restaurants offer a variety of local and international food.’
  • ‘Six women in their late twenties are gathered in a London restaurant for dinner.’
  • ‘When Lou's father was young, he started a restaurant in the city.’
  • ‘The few local shops and restaurants catering to summer visitors are closed for the season.’
  • ‘Eating out is easy with over 700 restaurants catering to a broad range of tastes.’

  Synonyms

  eating place, eating house

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