Week #14: Restaurants - Suggesting Restaurants

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The Food I Crave

Choosing a good restaurant can be hard. If you’re a tourist, you don’t know the kinds of cuisine available, restaurant locations or the best places. As with other facets of planning, the hotel concierge may be helpful in choosing a restaurant. A concierge can provide restaurant information, coupons, directions and transportation. Another great option is restaurant reading websites. These usually provide a review of food, service, price and atmosphere.

You must first decide what kind of food you’re in the mood for. Are you craving fast food, like hamburgers and fries, pizza or fried chicken? Are you craving street food like hot dogs or pretzels? Or are you looking for higher quality food? To avoid disappointment you need to know what you want.

Then you must decide, how much time you have. If you don’t have much time between activities you may have no choice but fast food. Sometimes vacation schedules become difficult so you should be able to improvise. The worst experience is trying to hurry a nice dinner at an elegant restaurant. If you have a lot of time, you can choose any restaurant you wish. Of course, if you do plan on patronizing a fine dining establishment, make a reservation.

Finally, you need to have a budget. Everyone has a different amount to spend. So that nice to eat out at nice restaurants this may not be easy. If you like gourmet food, but are on a small budget, don’t worry. There’re many great restaurants with good food at reasonable budget prices.

Dialogue 1.

- What can I do for you?

- Hello. What’s a good restaurant for dinner?

- What kind of food are you in the mood for?

- We’re craving Cajun food.

- There are many great Cajun restaurants.

- Great!

- Also, what’s your budget?

- Some place not too expensive.

- All right. How about The Bayou?

Dialogue 2.

- What are you in the mood for?

- How about steak and seafood?

- All right. I found a restaurant, reading website. They have ratings, prices and location.

- Is there anything for a tight budget?

- Ocean Grill is the cheapest, but it doesn’t look nice.

- Are any of them close?

- Captain’s Table is a 10 minute walk, but it’s expensive.

- Well, it’s your birthday. We can spend more money.

- The others have an average rating. Which do you want?

- The second place.

- Sounds good!

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