Food & Retaurants Flashcards
Eatery
An eatery is a place where you can buy and eat food. …one of the most elegant old eateries in town
They’re at the eatery looking at the menu.
snack bar, fast food restaurant
Cuisine
Kwi-zeen
[cui·sine || kwiː’ziːn]
style of cooking
Do you like French cuisine?
French cuisine is excellent.
Speciality dish
What’s the restaurant’s speciality
Delicacy
A delicacy is a rare or expensive food that is considered especially nice to eat. Smoked salmon was considered an expensive delicacy.
Décor
style or mode of decoration, as of a room, building, or the like: modern office décor; a bedroom having a Spanish décor.
Setting
A particular setting is a particular place or type of surroundings where something is or takes place. Rome is the perfect setting for romance.
Eat out
(e.g.: “I don’t feel like cooking tonight, let’s eat out”)
Dine out
(Formal) When you dine, you have dinner. He dines alone most nights.
eat at a restaurant
Let’s dine out for a change.
Feast on
If you feast on a particular food, you eat a large amount of it with great enjoyment. They feasted well into the afternoon on mutton and corn stew.
Sample
If you sample food or drink, you taste a small amount of it in order to find out if you like it. We sampled a selection of different bottled waters.
Let me sample your cake.
Regional
Regional is used to describe things which relate to a particular area of a country or of the world. The Garden’s menu is based on Hawaiian regional cuisine.
Swanky
[swank·y || ‘swæŋkɪ]
elegant, classy; luxurious
(Informal) If you describe something as swanky, you mean that it is fashionable and expensive. …one of the swanky hotels that line the Pacific shore at Acapulco
Posh
[‘pɑʃ /’pɒʃ]
(Slang) luxurious, opulent, elegant; richly furbished, spiffy
He lives in a posh apartment near Central Park.
He was the poshest person!!!
Low-cost
able to be purchased or acquired at relatively little cost: low-cost life insurance; low-cost housing
I don’t believe in low-carb diets.
This is a low-calorie muffin
Unsophisticated
غیرتصنعی،غیرساختگی،واقعی،اصیل
not sophisticated; simple; artless.
Not as good as it’s cracked up to be
Not as good as people say
Lots of posh restaurants are not as good as they’re cracked up to be.
Run of the mill
Average , typical
In my neighbourhood there are quite a few run of the mill eateries.
Set you Back
Set sb. Back
Cost sb. An amount of money
The swanky restaurants will set you back quite a lot of money.
Hording
[hɔrd /hɔːd]
large amount, mass, crowd; nomadic group of people; swarm, pack