12 Eating out
“When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the
more you enjoy your meal.”
― Jeffrey Wright
Mixed up vocabulary
c hkec - (n) in the US you ask for this at the end of a meal, in Britain they say
bill
m nia
c eruos - (n) this part of the meal follows the starter
r evoretaisn - (n) you need to make one of these before visi ng a popular restaurant
w lel
d neo - (adj) one way of ordering your steak
v atargeeni - (n/adj) someone who doesn’t eat meat
c ruelty - (n) collec ve name for knives, forks, spoons, etc.
n ipnak - (n) something you wipe your mouth with during or a er a meal
Idioms and collocations
Put your money away. It’s your birthday, so dinner is
my __________ .
I can’t eat all this food. Please can you put it in a
__________ bag for me?
I shouldn’t have ordered the large por on;
my eyes were bigger than my __________ .
I can’t eat a single thing more. I’m
completely __________ .
I have a
sweet __________ and can’t resist dessert.
treat belly tooth doggie stuffed
Grammar bit
If I’d known
the por ons were so small, I would’ve had a bigger lunch.
- Yes, and if you’d read the restaurant review you would’ve known
that the por ons
here aren’t very big.
