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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?

Language level
B1 Intermediate
Topics
restaurants
food
Average: 4 (44 votes)
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Comments

Submitted by dntvan on Tue, 10/01/2019 - 07:25

I love all of restaurant that you mentioned, every restaurant has many dishes which are delicious and fantastic. For me, I really like something traditional but sometime have a little contemporary. It's beautiful and homey.I also like eating seafood and Intalian food, too. Therefore, I would like to choose A Taste of Tuscany. Do you have the same thinking as me?

Submitted by Scorpio on Sat, 09/28/2019 - 14:03

For me, i prefer to enjoy these restaurant have luxurious spaces, tasty foods and good services. Especially, i love eating amazing foods when some musical instruments are played by the band because i respect my emotions and love romantic feelings... But I think, if they have enough all i want, the price will be so expensive... So, for a student like me, I often give priority to these which have many good foods and the prices are still cheap, as long as i feel full. Sometimes, after hard work days, i can also reward to myself by a good quality meal in my favorited restaurant.
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Submitted by trmynguyn7 on Thu, 09/26/2019 - 02:07

For me , i love eating when music played ,which can improve my taste of food . I also love classical rock so if Musical chairs is opened in Nha Trang , i will go there every monday night

Submitted by havy230819 on Sat, 09/21/2019 - 13:46

I have tried lots of kinds of food, but I found myself love the fresh taste of vegetables and fruit the best. If I have to choose one restaurant, it would be The Lemon Tree for sure. Although I am not a vegetarian but I think this one is a good choice for people who want to have a healthy and tasty meal.

Submitted by mary_nguyen on Thu, 09/19/2019 - 16:00

In my opinion, I will choose The Lemon tree, because all members in my family are vegetarians. Besides, eating vegetables and reducing meat in our meal are good for our health. We can also protect the animals from being killed. I hope that my family and I could try the food and also the great fruit smoothie in this restaurant.

Submitted by neyel_258 on Wed, 09/18/2019 - 03:10

My favorite food is dessert, so sometimes I go out with my friends to eat. The best place that I go to eat a lot is El.tee coffee in Nha Trang where is sold many kind of dessert like cakes, plan, jelly, milk tea...If you have a chance go to Nha Trang, El.tee is the best choice for eating and relaxing

Submitted by Sinatrafrank on Tue, 09/03/2019 - 09:18

I have a sweet tooth too so i prefer the chocalate box definitly. But also i wanna try sth new sth traditional sth different from us, the las days of the raj includes all of these. Thx for this exercise i'm hungry now :d 3

Submitted by Anais on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 13:27

I prefer The chocolate box because I love desserts especially the desserts with a lot of chocolate, for these reasons I recommend this place to eat differents and delicious desserts

Submitted by ruth on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 12:31

The article is very good because it not only presents the names of the restaurants, but also the quality it has.

Submitted by melis on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 01:23

In my opinion, I would choose A Taste of Tuscany.Because it gives you an excellent lunch, on the other hand, it has the best chefs who have received training in Italy, and finally because I like pasta.

Submitted by Brandon on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 13:22

I agree with you, but I wouldn't go and taste the pasta, but the dishes of seafood. Because I need "a great value-for-money lunch".

Submitted by Anais on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 13:30

I agree with you because I know that it's a good restaurant, but I don´t like the food spicy

Submitted by Rusbell_Jarro on Mon, 08/26/2019 - 23:17

The text show me diferent restaurants. But I want go to the Musical Chairs,, because for me is the best place for visit. I love music, specifically the clasic music. This songs are very relaxing to be able to consume the food offered by the restaurant, in conclusion, it is the place that at some point I wish I could meet.

Submitted by Brandon on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 13:04

I'm agree with you, I think that It'd be an interesting place to visit. And If you like Musical Chairs, maybe Last Days of the Raj would be an recommendation.

Submitted by sorayde on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 13:17

What food would you advise to eat with classical music?

Submitted by Anais on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 13:34

I think that the experience to eat listening to good music is a good option and one of my favorites, also that I love music.

Submitted by Brandon on Mon, 08/26/2019 - 23:17

Fast Best, because I love fast food especially hamburgers.

Submitted by Rusbell_Jarro on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 13:14

This is a good option. In my opinion this restaurant are very interesting, because the meal of this place is Fast food, for example "hambuergers". (TO NIGHT)

Submitted by AdwinZ123 on Wed, 05/15/2019 - 09:49

Last Days of the Raj, because they have spicy food.

Submitted by KevinC on Fri, 04/05/2019 - 01:20

I love lots and lots of chocolates, so sweet.

Submitted by Nicusor99 on Mon, 02/18/2019 - 15:08

I want to go to the Lemom Tree because I play football. I like to eat healty food.

Submitted by Saffron_d63 on Sat, 02/09/2019 - 18:32

I'd like to visit The Lemon Tree because I am a sport person. I like to eat only healthy products.

Submitted by sofdom on Thu, 01/24/2019 - 16:43

I don´t usually eat a lot of sweets, but I would definitely go to The Chocolate Box!

Submitted by parsasoroori on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 10:02

Although I would rather healthy food, but I would choose the fast best for a delicious cheesy hamburger and then take a car to The Chocolate Box for a delicious dark chocolate.

Submitted by benjamin on Sat, 09/01/2018 - 12:38

the text describes the restaurant. He talks about the different dishes the cooks make, the types of foods that can be found and some of the dishes the patrons made before making the dishes or desserts they make now. I would like to go at The chocolate box because I love dessert.
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Submitted by myname on Wed, 06/13/2018 - 13:01

I would like to go to The Lemon Tree; The Chocolate Box and Fast Best because I love to eat all !!!!
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Submitted by Batgirl on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 16:44

I'd like to go to Last Days of the Raj because I really love spicy food3
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