At the restaurant In all large cities there are plenty of restaurants, cafйs, cafeterias, self-service dining-rooms, etc. All the large hotels have dining-rooms or restaurants.
You can have breakfast, dinner, lunch or supper at any restaurant. Every restaurant offers you dinners ”table d’hфte”. These meals are known as regular dinners. It means that you are served with meals of several courses, at a fixed price. “Table d’hфte” is cheaper than “table а la carte”. “Table а la carte” means such meals which are ordered course by course, from the menu card, each dish separately. At the restaurant each little party of guests has its own table. In the evening you can see several people dancing at the far end of the room, near the orchestra. One of the waiters is standing near the table where there are cold dishes of various kinds. He is holding a tray with two wine-glasses on it.
In summer, when it is very hot, you can also order cold, refreshing beverages, such as: soda-water, juice, lemonade or beer. In summer people also eat a lot of ice-cream. At a restaurant you can get all kinds of meals, hot dishes as well as cold ones.
Answer the questions 1. What dinners does every restaurant offer you?
2. What does “Table а la carte” mean?
3. Where can you see one of the waiters?
4. Why has the waiter put the bottle of wine into the ice-bucket?
5. What refreshing beverages can you also order?
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Read the article and do the tasks given bellow. Meals in Britain The usual British meals are breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner and supper.
Traditional breakfast is a very big meal - sausages, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, etc. But nowadays many people just have cereal with milk and sugar, or toast with marmalade, jam, or honey. Marmalade and jam are not the same! Marmalade is made from oranges and jam is made from other fruit. The traditional breakfast drink is tea, which people have with cold milk. Some people have coffee, often instant coffee, which is made with just hot water. Many visitors to Britain find this coffee disgusting!
For many people lunch is a quick meal. In cities there are a lot of bars, where office workers can choose the kind of bread they want - brown, white, or a roll - and then all sorts of salad and meat or fish to go in the sandwich. Pubs often serve good, cheap food, both hot and cold. Schoolchildren can have a hot meal at school, but many just take a snack from home - a sandwich, a drink, some fruit, and perhaps some crisps.
Afternoon tea means two things. It is a drink and a meal! Some people have afternoon tea with sandwiches or cakes. Cream teas are very popular. You may also have scones (a kind of cake) with cream and jam.
The evening meal is the main meal of the day for many people. They usually have it quite early, between 6 and 8 pm, and often the whole family eats together.
