Restaurant Words

Restaurant Words provided by John's ESL Community
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  • Good evening
  • ... A formal greeting generally used after 6pm.

  • recommend
  • ...To give advice that will help a person make a choice

  • appetizer
  • ...That part of the meal that is served before the salad or the main course.

  • escargot
  • ...An appetizer of snails which have been baked inside a pastry.

  • tender
  • ...easily chewed and digested

  • marinate
  • ...to let food soak in a substance for a certain amount of time so the food will absorb some of the flavor of that substance.

  • overnight
  • ...for or during the entire night

  • half an order
  • ...A partial amount of a whole order. If an order of Escargot is 6 snails, half an order would be 3.

  • entre
  • ...the main course of a meal

  • wonderful
  • ...excellent or great, better than just good

  • mood
  • ...A person's emotional state or feeling.

  • soup de jour
  • ...soup of the day, the type of soup being served on a particular day

  • baked
  • ...cooked in an oven

  • filet mignon
  • ...a type of beef steak, generally considered one of the best steaks served in American restaurants

  • charbroiled
  • ...cooked on open flames

  • prepare
  • ...to make, to cook

  • medium
  • ...Steaks are prepared according to temperature. A steak that is medium rare is not cooked all the way through. The center is still red and cooler than the outside of the steak.

  • dressing
  • ...a type of sauce put on salads for flavoring

  • dinner
  • ...evening meal, generally eaten around 6:30pm

  • server
  • ...waiter or waitress

  • Margarita
  • ...an alcoholic beverage made with tequila and sweet and sour mix

  • on the rocks
  • ...served over ice

  • combo plate
  • ...a plate of several types of food

  • start off with
  • ...to have before the meal, to begin with

  • appetizer
  • ...that part of the meal that is served before the salad or the main course.

  • substitute
  • ...to have something in stead of what is offered