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

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food
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Submitted by mirrasab on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 14:34

i like meat,but i would try to go to a vegetarian restaurant.

Submitted by JuanENSFEP on Thu, 02/25/2021 - 20:04

I prefer going to the restaurant Musical chairs because this is a good restaurant and this i can listen music and eat. I could go the Monday becose i like the classic rock and the pizza.
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Submitted by Kostantinus on Tue, 01/19/2021 - 22:45

I think all these restaurants have their own great dishes. So I would like to visit all of them on different days. The most important thing is try to eat not too much per one time))

Submitted by nguyenthimyngoc on Thu, 12/17/2020 - 14:01

All these restaurant are amazing and has its own service characteristics. And for me,I'd like to go to the Chocolate Box restaurant. Firstly, I extremely like to eat sweets,especially chocolate. You know, my childhood nickname is "chocolate girl". Another reason, it is like my paradise. That mean, when I eat sweets, i feel happy and relaxed. All my tensions will disappear immediately. It sounds magical but real for me.

Submitted by 0779044675 on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 08:19

I like the music chair, it gives me unforgettable experiences, the music helps me eat better, my spirit is good, I can enjoy my meal fully

Submitted by nqtuyen19 on Sun, 12/06/2020 - 02:27

the food are very delicious and i want to try all!

Submitted by gamedragon on Sat, 09/11/2021 - 19:16

I think this is a good idea, because all food look like very tasty.

Submitted by vyhoai61nna2 on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 15:36

These restaurants are all wonderful. However, for me, I would like to have meal at Musical Chairs because I love all kinds of music. The music ca make my meal much better, and my mood is more comfortable. I imagine the scene of enjoying the great food there and listening to the music, well, there's nothing left.

Submitted by tranthimyle on Sun, 10/25/2020 - 13:18

For me, I would like to go to all of these restaurants. Because I want to taste it all perfectly here.

Submitted by Vivi on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 03:56

For me, i really love spicy food. Therefore, i'd like to go to the Last Days of the Raj. Besides, i also want to try Indian food. It will be interesting

Submitted by haiduong on Thu, 10/01/2020 - 14:26

I'd love to go to the Chocolate Box. First of all, sweet things are my life. I'll eat chocolate and all things sweet for one consecutive week, if my mom let me. The second reason is that I'm crazy for cakes. The soft texture, the cream, the decorations,... all appeal to me. I mean, what can be more perfect than combining two of your favorite things in one dish, right?

Submitted by Jenny201 on Thu, 09/17/2020 - 03:38

As for me, I'd like to go to the Chocolate Box restaurant. Here are some reasons I want to go there. First of all, I have a sweet tooth and love all kinds of sweets especially chocolate. Sweets make me happy. Being happy is good for health as it helps to boost up positive thinking. Next, I've never been in such restaurants so I wanna enjoy the peaceful atmosphere at that place. It's perfect if we can both enjoy the wonderful dessert and listen to music.

Submitted by Vuquan on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 08:41

My favorite restaurant is "Fast Best" because i like the chef to make them fast.
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Submitted by zagrybast on Sun, 08/09/2020 - 08:44

Hmmm, I think I would go to «your local cafe” because I like English breakfast. But Fast Best sounds not bad too.

Submitted by Mamou1 on Thu, 07/30/2020 - 09:39

All these restaurant are amazing they give us many variety of meals so that it's interesting. However I think for change my hobbies I want to go to the Last Days of the Raj restaurant I really want to taste Indian food and even more I like spicy food so that's perfect

Submitted by Eng_learner on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 07:57

As for me, I'd like to go to the Chocolate Box restuarant becacuse I have a sweet tooth and adore chocolate. Also, I've never been in such resuarants and would like to try.

Submitted by pvhoang05 on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 14:20

I don't like eating at restaurant because my mom cooks great food
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Submitted by Giovannichoi on Fri, 06/05/2020 - 13:18

Let me see.. I will choose 'A Taste of Tuscany', because I love Italian food. I've been always wanting to eat Italian cuisine, for my parents had been studying in Italy. As I wrote in the other comments, Mom was in there for 14 years, and Dad was for 8 years. So I ate a lot of Italian food in my house such as pasta, steak, or salad. But I've never eaten or seen the real Italian course meal, different from my parents. Mom said most of dinner is continued in this order: salad-pizza/pasta/risotto-steak/grilled fish-dessert and coffee. And they eat panino, (which is well known for panini) or a piece of pizza, or a dish of pasta. For breakfast, caffe Italiano with cookie, or cappucino with brioche. Isn't it fantastic? I wonder how those Italians don't grow fat despite of their high-calorie diet. In my country, Korea, we live on bab, which is 'rice' in English, and gug, which is sort of soup, and banchan, which is side dish in foreign countries. I think it's not attractive like pizza or pasta or hamburgers or steak or... well, I bet you have an idea. So this is why I want to go and eat Italian food in 'A Taste of Tuscany'.

Submitted by kit_kat on Thu, 06/04/2020 - 12:27

Well, I'd choose to go to The Lemon Tree because I really interested in healthy nutrition.

Submitted by bloomybloom on Sun, 05/17/2020 - 15:12

I think that all of these restaurants are amazing , but if i had the possibility to go for one of theme , I'd like to go to the choclate box because I love all kind of sweets and choclate , I'm like Lucy's friend ; i have a sweet tooth :)

Submitted by ThuMinh on Thu, 04/16/2020 - 09:01

Well, to be honest, i'm quitely interested in Local Caff. This could be because in my thought breakfast very important for me and the ingrediants in breakfast of Local Caff fairly nutritious

Submitted by thanthan on Tue, 04/14/2020 - 06:45

I want to go to Last Day of Raj. Because i like hot and spicy foods. I like most of the Indian food. I like the smells of their foods, recipe and condiments.

Submitted by peachygirl on Sun, 04/12/2020 - 11:32

I like to go restaurant and I love all restaurants in this text. But I would to go The Lemon Tree. I like healthy food ( vegetables, smoothie and something like that), I am not vegetarian, but I want to be vegetarian in the future (my family do not respect me in this question now, and I do not have work to make money and buy food I like).

Submitted by Shhhh on Sun, 04/05/2020 - 00:50

I prefer the Fast Best because you have more variety and they serve you faster. Whatever it was once or twice a month

Submitted by Shhhh on Sun, 04/05/2020 - 00:23

I prefer the Fast Best because you have more variety and they serve you faster.

Submitted by nblLECOC on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 13:43

I prefer the Fast Best because this fast first of all. You won’t have to wait long for your order. Although it’s completely unhealthy food, it’s nutritious. Callories are energy. True, right after eating, I want to relax and enjoy the aftertaste of a wonderful burger and cola. If chefs monitor the quality of their products, this is commendable.

Submitted by Hftcbhbcdsjth on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 07:01

These are all wonderful restaurants. However, for me, I would like to visit "The Lemon Tree", because l like vegetables more, than pasta, pizza, hamburger or meat.

Submitted by Kristalik2 on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 08:06

I'd like to visit The Lemon Tree, because l like vegetables more, than pasta or meat. And I like fruit smoothie

Submitted by chien_01 on Sat, 03/07/2020 - 10:17

I'd like to go to all of these restaurants. But I think I will probably choose to go to Musical Chairs, if I only have one choice, for I love music. To me it is quite romantic to have dinner with my girlfriend there. Oh, I am single. It is sad.

Submitted by catatb_05 on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 09:38

I would go to the music chairs because I love all kinds of music. This place is perfect for meeting friends and having a good time

Submitted by Makam on Sat, 02/08/2020 - 13:30

I choose the lemon tree because It's vegetarian.

Submitted by Elife on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 23:56

I'd go to The Lemon Tree. Because, I love to drink smoothies and vegetables, it's good for health.
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Submitted by linhdan83 on Thu, 11/28/2019 - 07:00

These are all wonderful restaurants. However, for me, I would like to have a meal at Fast Best for its speed, quality and reasonable prices. It's really good for student like me to have delicious food but not cost too much. In addition, I'd like to give Last Days of the Raj a try as it seems really interesting.

Submitted by ThanhLam on Wed, 11/27/2019 - 16:36

It's not easy to me to choose one of these restaurants becaus I like to taste food from different cultures. But if I have to choose, I think I'd go to Cheesy Bites. I love cheese and it can be combined with many meals. When it warms , it transforms into a kind of chewing gum and it's taste is surprising. I think that a good idea to go there at lunchtime.

Submitted by Quocvu on Mon, 11/11/2019 - 02:33

i really like the list of restaurants. If i were i would choose Fast best. Because i love junk food and those dishes make me very interested in this.

Submitted by Ngocthao60nna10 on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 16:40

If I were to choose I would choose A taste of Tuscacy. Because I very enjoy walking street at night and find a restaurant to eat dinner. when I was a child I lived near the sea should in each meal often have seafood. Therefore, I really like eat seafood. As for me, enjoy traditional dishes with an evening relax is a wonderful thing. Thus, A taste of Tuscacy suitable for me

Submitted by nguyenthao0808 on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 13:10

Food is an important factor of life that fuels every individual across the globe.the popularity of food restaurants is growing every day. Now days, people can buy a whole meal in food restaurants . People consider that food restaurants make their life easy and uncomplicated when don't have enough time to cook or you looking for somewhere to go out this weekend. For instance, if two parents was both working late and their kids was home with dinner not cooked, they could stop at any restaurants to order food for dinner before heading home. For me, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I really want to have a breakfast and listen to my favourite tunes from the 1980s.

Submitted by lkngan on Tue, 10/08/2019 - 16:46

If i were to choose, i would choose Musical Chairs because i love music so much, just imagine the scene of enjoying the great food there and listening to the music, there's nothing left

Submitted by Hiep on Mon, 10/07/2019 - 14:22

A meal would be really perfect when you enjoy some delicious food and melodious melody of the music, right? Hmm ... and make sure my choice is Musical Chairs. Because I really like Western food, especially steak. I think I will have a perfect meal when I come to this restaurant, the music can make my meal much better and my mood is much more comfortable. Maybe when I can, I will go to Musical Chairs. Thank you !!

Submitted by hamynguyen on Mon, 10/07/2019 - 02:27

Well, I really pay attention to Cheesy Bites. It has only cheeses, but from many differrent country all over the world.In fact, I am keen on cheeses so much so that I wanna try to variety of the taste and enjoy the wonderful views at that place.:)

Submitted by Phong on Sat, 10/05/2019 - 05:44

These restaurants have different as well as diversity in food and service. It would be great to be able to visit one of these restaurants someday.

Submitted by ABC_01 on Sat, 10/05/2019 - 03:52

At my age of course I would love chocolate cakes or Italian food, snack food. I am different, I'll go to The Lemon Tree. I like to drink smoothies and vegetables, I like healthy food because it's good for health.

Submitted by Nini on Fri, 10/04/2019 - 12:19

If I have to budget,I will go to the lemon tree restaurant and reserve a table .Because It is beautiful and the restaurant serves healthy food.

Submitted by blackwidow on Fri, 10/04/2019 - 04:43

what great restaurants to relax at the weekend. But personally, if there' s a chance i really want to visit these two restaurants: The Lemon Tree and cheesy bite. As someone who loves cheese, i like the food made from cheese if i go to The Cheesy Bite restaurant i think i' ll be satisfied. About The Lemon Tree restaurant , i also like healthy food so choose this restaurant; besides, i really like the name of it

Submitted by Vietnamesepeople on Fri, 10/04/2019 - 04:08

All the restaurants mentioned here are unique. For me, I am very interested in " Cheesy Bites", b/c I really love cheese and I want to try all kinds of cheese in the world

Submitted by Rosie on Fri, 10/04/2019 - 03:26

Wow ! There are many famous restaurants with tasty foods and desserts. I love Chocolate much, especially dark chocolate, số I think that if I have chances, I'll come to The Chocolate Box with my family. And I also like music, it always makes me comfortale, therefore I will definitely try it someday.

Submitted by DanhVN2001 on Fri, 10/04/2019 - 01:51

I'd like to go to Musical chairs, because I want to try the change of the flavor of food with the help of music.

Submitted by phonguyen on Thu, 10/03/2019 - 10:16

Weekends are a time to relax after hard working days. So we can spend that time enjoying new foods and feeling their taste.
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