restaurant
- noun
- /ˈrɛstəˌrɑnt/
- I met him in a sushi restaurant with my mom.
- eat at restaurants
- restaurant food
- fast-food restaurant
It's like a sit down restaurant that is fast food.
- It's like a sit down restaurant that is fast food.
- And they had, there's a restaurant at the Cape.
- I was once in a restaurant on a first date.
- And they've been putting up new stores, new restaurants in the last year.
- I'm the only Persian restaurant in southwest Palo Alto.
- He has a raw food restaurant in his practice.
- Like, I didn't understand that restaurants weren't chains.
- Now we're going to my favorite restaurant, McDonald's.
- OK, There was a restaurant in Newtown.
- One of them had fast food restaurants, the other one didn't.
- And, and they take me to a basement restaurant in Bayswater.
- You're going to see a lot of restaurant tours shut down.
Examples
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For dinner, we decided to try the Italian restaurant that just opened downtown.
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I take this walk down to the corner to the Chinese restaurant.
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I was once in a restaurant on a first date.
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Next stop, we're going to the restaurant to have a lunch.
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- I found this great restaurant in Century City.
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Welcome to the local Mexican restaurant on Main Street.
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After numerous odd jobs in Chicago, I returned to the restaurant business as a waitress.
Academic text (1999) -
Now we're going to my favorite restaurant, McDonald's.
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I'm on Yelp looking for a restaurant to take my wife to for our anniversary.
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Joe and Dede emerge from the restaurant and get in his beat-up car.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
A place where people serve themselves from a counter and pay before they eat
A small cheap restaurant with a counter that serves simple meals quickly
A small place that serves coffee, drinks, and light food
A small cafe where people buy coffee and light food
A meal where people serve themselves from many dishes laid out on a table
A restaurant that serves meat and fish cooked on a grill
A small informal restaurant that serves simple meals and wine
A restaurant that mainly serves steaks and other meat dishes
A place like a restaurant or café where people eat
A small shop or restaurant that makes and sells pizzas
A restaurant that sells roasted meat cooked on a spit
A small simple restaurant that serves coffee and sandwiches at a counter
A place like a small restaurant that serves high-quality food and drinks
A place where people go to eat, like a restaurant or cafe
A place where people buy and eat meals, like a restaurant or café
A small shop that sells hot meals to people
A very fancy place that serves expensive, very good food and gives great service
Compounds
A group of symptoms like headache and tingling after eating food with MSG
A very fancy place that serves expensive, very good food and gives great service
How Fancy
- Archaic
- Indian
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word restaurant comes from the French word restaurer, which means 'to restore' and is like the English word restore. At first it named a strong soup that 'restored' your strength, so a restaurant became the place to get food that makes you feel better.