Restaurants&food&cooking Flashcards
We met in a little eatery just off the main road.
Eatery: a restaurant
French cuisine
Our globalized world is giving us unique opportunities to share various International cuisines.
Cuisine: a style of cooking
Speciality dish
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In some parts of the world, sheep’s eyes are considered a great delicacy.
Delicacy: something especially rare or expensive that is good to eat.
You can tell from his empty unused kitchen that he tends to eat out a lot.
Eat out: to eat in a restaurant
We rarely dine out these days.
Dine out: |formal| to go to a restaurant to eat your evening meal:
We feasted on smoked salmon and champagne.
Feast on: to eat a lot of good food and enjoy it very much.
We stayed in a swanky hotel.
Swanky: very expensive and fashionable, in a way that is intended to attract people’s attention and admiration:
He takes her to some really posh restaurants.
Posh: (of places and things) expensive and of high quality.
Low-cost
Cheap
Lots of the posh restaurants are not as good as they are cracked up to be.
Not as good as it’s/they’re cracked up to be= not as good as people say
In my neighbourhood there are quite a few run of the mill eateries.
Run of the mill: average, typical
The swanky restaurants will set you back quite a lot of money.
Set sb back: cost sb
I love the simplicity of Italian food with only a few ingredients but of extraordinary quality.
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Nowadays we often hear about the importance of maintaining balanced and healthy diet.
Balanced and healthy diet: it means we need to think carefully about what we eat and prefer nutrient dense food.