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Food and restaurants

Do you like eating out? Check out these reviews of the trendiest places to eat and improve your reading skills.

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Food and restaurants

Are you looking for somewhere special to go this weekend? Do you want to try something new? Check out one of these hot new restaurants.

Last Days of the Raj 

A centrally located Indian restaurant, perfect for eating before or after the cinema or a show. In summer enjoy your meal in the beautiful garden. The most popular dishes are lamb and chicken cooked with mild, medium or hot spices. For brave customers there is extra hot!

A Taste of Tuscany

Whether you’d like a great value-for-money lunch or a relaxed evening meal in stylish surroundings, this is the place for you. The chefs have all been trained in Italy and they make both traditional and contemporary dishes. We recommend the pasta and seafood.

Your Local Caff

Remember when cafés served full English breakfasts – sausages, beans, fried bread, bacon and eggs – with a strong cup of tea? Well, this place still does and you can have your breakfast at any time you like during the day while you listen to your favourite tunes from the 1980s. 

The Lemon Tree

This pretty restaurant serves healthy food that’s tasty too. Come in for a vegetarian snack at lunchtime or a great fruit smoothie or a cappuccino and a delicious piece of cake in the afternoon. Food is bought from local producers whenever possible.

Cheesy Bites

A restaurant that only serves cheese, but hundreds of cheeses from many countries and in lots of different forms. They serve reasonably priced lunches but dinner can be expensive. Lovely food and a very elegant dining room, looking onto an amazing flower garden.

Fast Best

Fast food doesn’t have to be junk food, as this café proves. Do you fancy a really good hamburger made with the best ingredients, or old-fashioned fish and chips fried to perfection, all on the table in super-quick time? Speed and quality are important here, and the prices aren’t bad either.

The Chocolate Box

The owner of this small café used to cook all kinds of food, but then she realised she preferred desserts to anything else. If you want meat or fish, don’t come here. They only do desserts! Lots of different kinds of sweets. Chocolate lovers will be excited by the range of chocolate cakes.

Musical Chairs

Have you noticed how music improves the taste of your food? This new restaurant has different types of live music every night except Sundays, and excellent food to go with it. Great fish dishes, steak and pizza. Monday is classic rock night, so see you there!

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Discussion

Which of these restaurants would you choose to go to? Why?

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food
Average: 4 (44 votes)
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Submitted by tokitomuchiroking on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 12:48

i love eat food in india
i tasty

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Submitted by PhaseGD312 on Wed, 07/17/2024 - 16:18

For starters, T definitely will go to The Chocolate Box and Musical Chairs because T really like chocolate, and T am also really interested in music so Musical Chairs are the best T could get.

Submitted by muhimen_khan on Fri, 05/24/2024 - 20:02

The most important thing which food is best for health, I know all resturants are making healthy food but not match with my health condation so I thing the last day of Raj is best for me becouse they are making dishes with your choise. I think I am a tea dranker so your local caff is the best place for me to enjoying my tea and coffee

Submitted by DragonKing08 on Fri, 05/17/2024 - 11:49

To start, I’ll definitely go to Your Local Call for breakfast, Fast Best for lunch, Musical Chairs for dinner and The Chocolate Box for dessert.
Though, I would prefer a french restaurant for dinner.(VIVE LA FRANCE!!!!!)

~DragonKing08~

Submitted by Ahamd64 on Sun, 04/28/2024 - 10:04

I'm a person who loves a lot eating and trying new thinks. if i could try i would try all of them but if you say to that i have to choose one them surely i would choose ''Your local Caff'' or English breakfast because it has all powerful item for our body needs and looks delicious as well

Submitted by Audi_LSTS on Wed, 04/17/2024 - 01:55

I would go to the last day of the Raj because I love Indian food. But the name of that restaurant is so confusing. Can anybody explain the restaurant's name for me, please ?

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Submitted by Harry on Fri, 02/16/2024 - 06:02

Hmm.. This would be a difficult choice to decide in my opinion... I will go to The Lemon Tree! Because I'm a Tibetan Buddhist and on special days, We will go vegetarian The Lemon Tree is a good option!

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Submitted by FlowerQueen on Sun, 09/10/2023 - 18:59

Hi!
For breakfast I'd like to go to "The Lemon Tree" and start healthy into the day. I would like to eat lunch at "Fast Best" and then go to "The Chocolate Box" for dessert. In the evening, I'll go to "A Taste Of Tuscany" and eat Italian dishes with my whole family!
FlowerQueen~♡

Submitted by israe on Tue, 04/25/2023 - 09:52

I would love to go to all of the restaurant because I really love food. The menu looks really good and I would like to try the spicy food.

Submitted by sofia3A on Mon, 10/16/2023 - 17:26

I think like you, I would also like to try one of these restaurants and I also really love food, but not spicy food

Submitted by rosemaella on Wed, 03/15/2023 - 18:07

I'd like to go to the Chocolate Box restaurant. Because I love chocolate and I really like sweets.

Submitted by pomelo on Fri, 03/10/2023 - 14:18

I'll go to Your Local Caff. Because this restaurant have tune from since 1980

Submitted by kulebyaka_21 on Tue, 02/28/2023 - 13:10

I think I would go to the Chocolate box and Musical Chairs. Because I have a sweet tooth, the sweet just makes me happy. And also I am obsessed with music, it is part of my soul, so Musical Chairs and The Chocolate Box are definitely for me.)

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Submitted by Animeci_Afton on Sun, 01/08/2023 - 11:02

I would like to go to the Chocolate Box beceause I like chocolate, sweets and desserts very much. Also this is a very good exercise for people that wants to improve their English. It helped me a lot with my exams, thank you!

Submitted by haydendemonlizard on Thu, 01/05/2023 - 16:16

I'd really like to visit Musical chairs, the atmosphere must be great there. Also Cheesy Bites sounds interesting.

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Submitted by Muhammad Hamay… on Fri, 12/09/2022 - 07:23

I would like to go chocolate because I like sweet.

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Submitted by Javiera_Ophelia on Sun, 11/27/2022 - 02:14

I like to go to The chocolate box because I like to eat desserts a lot in specially apple pie

Submitted by naulyfitri on Tue, 10/04/2022 - 01:47

I'm not a great cook, I'm not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food. So, my explorer is perfect !

Submitted by Exipial on Sun, 07/24/2022 - 19:02

I'd really like to visit Your Local Caff beacuse I have never been to any of this type of restaurant before. The 80's music vibes sounds great and also the menu looks really tasty. Next to mix my tastes with something sweet I'd go to The Chocolate Box. Hope this plan come true one day

Submitted by strawberry123_ on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 09:17

All this restaurants have such great descriptions, that I want to go to all of them... But if I had to choose, I`d go to Your Local Caff, because I`d never tried English breakfast, to Cheesy Bites and The Chocolate Box, because I like cheese and sweets so much

Submitted by 10AN615 on Tue, 06/07/2022 - 16:53

I would recommend the lemon tree because it is both delicious and healthy and has snacks and is made from local producers.

Submitted by 01Aras on Tue, 06/07/2022 - 10:30

I am very curious about Japanese cuisine. I would especially like to eat ramen

Submitted by aycauzz1 on Mon, 06/06/2022 - 16:21

I'm curious about Italian cuisine. Since it has famous dishes such as pizza, it also has dishes as good as pizza. I wonder about your tastes

Submitted by mejor1213 on Thu, 05/26/2022 - 23:26

I like the restaurant Tu café local, since they have breakfast all day long, it feels nice and we can listen to our favorite music while we enjoy the food. great I think this place.

Submitted by lucalvesilva on Sat, 05/21/2022 - 10:50

I could say that eating is one my favourite hobbies in life. I'm addicted in japanese and italian food. I may add that I'm not only good at eating, I have abilities for cooking as well. The type of food that I want eventually depends on my mood that day. I haven't gone to an indian restaurant yet but I would love to.

Submitted by TNO on Tue, 03/29/2022 - 19:17

There are several stunning restaurants to choose from one of them for me as I prefer all of them to pick out for the reasons that I suppose they are really great and magnificent to visit towards them. If so, first of all, I will select Your Local Caff for my breakfast as I love ingesting them at the start of my everyday life. As a side of health, I reckon these types of food is a balanced diet and can provide adequate components of biological molecules otherwise, various nutrients like proteins, carbohydrates, fats, fibres, vitamin and minerals. Second, I would pick Last Days of the Raj and A Taste of Tuscany since I also like eating Indian and Italian cuisines and spicy meals contained a lot of spices and seafood. For desserts and lunch , I would probably prefer The Lemon Tree to others, for this one can provide us with healthy food diets that are essential to maintain or sustain our lives to be fit.

Submitted by CunDaiWei on Wed, 02/09/2022 - 15:06

In the second test, there are only six questions. But it must have seven questions, right?
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Submitted by JoModerator on Thu, 02/10/2022 - 08:13

Hi CunDaiWei,

In the second game there are six questions, not seven.

We hope you enjoyed the activity!

 

Best wishes,

Jo (LearnEnglish Teens team)

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Submitted by Elsa on Tue, 01/18/2022 - 13:27

I can surely say I will choose Last Days of the Raj as I enjoy eating so spicy foods. And the next for Fast Best since hamburger is my favorite one among fast foods. The Chocolate Box is the last one because chocolate is my comfort food. if Thun is here, chocolate must here. I love chocolate as much as I love myself.
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Submitted by Darkside on Sat, 12/04/2021 - 13:55

First of all I'd choose The Lemon Tree because I love healthy dishes. But I love sweets too so then I'd go to The Chocolate Box. Actually I think Musical Chairs would be an interesting experience. Honestly I'd want to go everywhere, I generally just love food!

Submitted by dhadzikadunic on Tue, 11/30/2021 - 21:43

I would choose A Taste of Tuscany. I like Italian restaurants. The food is simple but very tasty.

Submitted by pinkpig on Wed, 11/10/2021 - 14:55

I would choose to go to Fast Best, because I like fast food and meat. Fast food restaurant is the best place to meet with my friends.
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Submitted by oliacream on Wed, 11/10/2021 - 13:46

For me, I am a keen eater of italian food, especially pizza. If I had a chance, I'd eat "margarita" for dinner every day, but I'm afraid my mum minds. Obviously, I'd visit "A Taste of Tuscany" to sample delicious italian cuisine.

Submitted by mirrasab on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 14:29

i like all food, but i would like choose restaurant 'The Chocolate Box' , because i very like different sweets. if i have this caff in my city, i would go to there every day. i have never seen a restaurant like this, i want to try!

Submitted by armieK on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 14:07

All food is good!

Submitted by gamedragon on Sat, 09/11/2021 - 19:04

Which of these restaurants would you choose to go to? Why? I would choose a the last days of the Raj, because i like hot food so much, and not only Indian food, i like Chinese and Japanese food too.

Submitted by Vuquan on Tue, 08/10/2021 - 14:47

I love this lesson because i learn a lot of new words and food.

Submitted by StrawberryPocky on Tue, 07/27/2021 - 19:39

I would like to visit the "Your Local Caff", i've never tried English breakfasts and i would like to.

Submitted by armieK on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 02:53

I have tried English Breakfast before. It is very tasty. And it makes you feeling full for several hours.

Submitted by ItalianGoldenWind on Thu, 06/03/2021 - 08:20

I would love to eat some cheese, so I would love to go to Cheesy Bites. And that also make me think of some Italian dish as Italian cheese is the best. However, I just hope that they don't put too much pepper on my pizza like they always do at my place.

Submitted by Yosselin_ensfep on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 03:58

I preferred the dessert restaurant, because i like to eat sweets and i love chocolate it woud be my favorite restaurant.

Submitted by strawberry123_ on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 09:20

I totally agree with you, I also like sweets and chocolate so much

Submitted by MoralesD_ensfep on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 16:20

I would choose between Your Local Caff or Musical Chairs, because in both while you are eating you can listen to good music and their food service looks delicious.

Submitted by gamedragon on Sat, 09/11/2021 - 19:11

I like to listen to music when I eat, and I think, that food can be more delicious with music.

Submitted by Brianda_Ensfep on Sat, 02/27/2021 - 06:08

I prefer to go to the lemon tree restaurant because the food is healthy and tasty, also the food is bought from local producers.
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