Question Type 1: Basic Description Questions

Topic 13: Restaurants

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  How often do you eat out in restaurants?
  
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  What types of restaurants do you like best?
  
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  What types of restaurants are common in your city?
  
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  What are the advantages of eating out in restaurants?
  
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  (See Topic 31: Cooking and Topic 36: Food.)
  

Nouns

eatery cuisine meal specialty dish

delicacy service décor selling

Verbs

eat out dine out feast on sample

Adjectives

regional swanky posh low-cost

unsophisticated

Idioms

not as good as it's / they’re cracked up to be (= not as good as people say)

Lots of the posh restaurants are not as good as they’re cracked up to be.

run of the mill (= average, typical)

In my neighborhood there are quite a few run of the mill eateries.

set sb. back (= cost sb. an amount of money)

The swanky restaurants will set you back quite a lot of money.