noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beach bar/restaurant (= on the beach )
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We watched the sun go down from the beach bar.
a restaurant chain
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the Pizza Hut restaurant chain
a restaurant critic (= of the food, service etc in restaurants )
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Being a restaurant critic sounds like a glamorous lifestyle.
catering/restaurant/cooking facilities
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The rooms all have cooking facilities and a fridge.
restaurant car
the hotel restaurant/bar/gym
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The hotel bar was empty.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chinese
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Takeaways take aim for the stars CHINESE takeaway restaurants will soon be given a star rating to encourage higher standards.
excellent
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Other facilities include a bar, an excellent restaurant , swimming pool, fitness room, sauna, solarium &038; skittle alley.
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While San Mateo is a pleasant destination for home shopping and browsing, it also has excellent restaurants and cafes.
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There are excellent restaurants and hotels, many of them specialising in their own way of serving fresh fish from the lake.
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There is an excellent restaurant and, weather permitting, meals can be served alfresco on the terrace.
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There is a snack bar by the pool, a taverna in the grounds and an excellent restaurant in the Atlantis itself.
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Your genial hosts will recommend several excellent local restaurants .
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Santa Eulalia At attractive little town with a cosmopolitan atmosphere and some excellent restaurants .
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We found some superb powder - all to ourselves, until we stopped at another excellent mountain restaurant at Le Prariond.
fine
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Exactly a year ago today, this man here started the finest restaurant in London.
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Budapest has the go-go feel of a city on the move and fine restaurants to match.
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Of course, our various Ministries are happy to arrange visits to fine restaurants , the concert, the opera, the ballet.
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Californians are casual in dress, even at the opera or in the finest restaurants .
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Palazzo Rocco-Saporiti Close to the palazzo there is a fine restaurant .
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He had stayed at the best hotels, eaten in the finest restaurants .
good
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Apart from that, everyone was on their own: there were good shops, good restaurants and good racing.
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These wines are precious enough to be good choices for restaurant wine lists.
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There is no dinner but Lewes has a good range of restaurants .
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We never had a good restaurant or coffee bar before.
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All bedrooms en-suite. Good restaurant facilities.
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A good restaurant , he thought.
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Caniço has probably the best selection of restaurants outside Funchal and is very popular with both Madeirans and foreigners.
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It had several good restaurants , a well-stocked bookstore, a movie house, and a good hotel.
little
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In Montparnasse artists and art students met each other in the cafés and at the life class and in the little restaurants .
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Handsels A charming little West End restaurant with reliable menu.
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We went into a little concrete block restaurant in Bayline.
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Most typically it starts with a late-night drive to some little restaurant .
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The shy teen-ager serving up tacos at a little restaurant called Porkyland was learning computer skills.
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There is a nice little restaurant just at the corner of this street.
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And he says hello to everyone on the elevator, and most everyone in the casual little restaurant .
local
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Then we sussed out that bread and milk were delivered to the local restaurants really early.
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They sipped tea in local restaurants and talked and laughed with whomever was there.
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If guests wish to eat out there are several reasonably priced local restaurants .
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Some hotels offer discounts on meals taken in local restaurants , for example.
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Forlornly we made our way to the local restaurant .
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For lunch and the evening meal there are several recommended local pubs and restaurants .
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It was followed by a lunch party at a local restaurant where the tables had been placed outside in the cobbled square.
new
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Money from extortion and drugs has reportedly financed a string of chic new restaurants and bars in Dushanbe.
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And the first new sit-down restaurant to open in Watts after the 1965 riots did not do so until November 1991.
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Sleep is also very important for me, much more than going out to the newest disco or restaurant .
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And a new kind of restaurant had sprung up with expensive menus and a young, confident clientele.
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A new restaurant is being built in the Overport Battery Casemates and will open next spring.
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At its new restaurant , Darden executives vow, nothing in the menu will require special skills or complicated dishes.
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About 85 new restaurants will be opened in the next two years to bring the total to well over 500.
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Thomas was eating at a New York restaurant recently when he excused himself to go to the restroom.
small
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Palamut serves in a small farming community with a tiny harbour, a small quayside restaurant and excellent locally caught fish.
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I had also met Nomura-san, who had retired from the Takarazuka Revue and now operated a small restaurant near our apartment.
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The château was empty, almost derelict, and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant .
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It was as if the small restaurant suddenly gave him all the space he needed.
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The Handbook suggested a Ricardo Quispe Mamani who also had a small restaurant on the main square.
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They had lunched together at a small restaurant full of pseudo-oak beams and bright red table-cloths.
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In a small restaurant for fresh trout.
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Small businesses were encouraged, which brought a rapid proliferation of small privately-owned restaurants and shops on the city streets.
■ NOUN
chain
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Burger King is widely regarded as the quality fast food hamburger restaurant chain .
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And other quick-serve restaurant chains , such as Boston Market, are jumping on the bandwagon.
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The steak restaurant chain Buffalo Grill withdrew the cuts from its menus last weekend.
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The Golden-based restaurant chain has jumped 12 percent in the last two trading sessions.
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The demographic data we have provided is accurate enough, but no resemblance to any existing restaurant chain is intended.
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A fast food restaurant chain in the United States is pioneering the use of pagers for its waiters.
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Lately, the restaurant chain , which caters mainly to blue-collar diners, has been hurt by competition.
hotel
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By comparison with the cold cobbled alleys, the hotel restaurant was a scene of throbbing gaiety.
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He glanced at the two doors of the hotel restaurant , automatically looking for police.
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Shall I go down and eat in the hotel restaurant , or shall I go out?
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She agreed, and the next day she and a girlfriend met Garcia for lunch at a hotel restaurant .
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They competed to see who could eat most in the hotel restaurant and gorged themselves on Cornish cream teas.
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At the Rex Hotel restaurant in Saigon, two drinks and two Cokes cost $ 23.
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They had dinner at the hotel restaurant on their first night.
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Going Upscale For lunch-goers with an expense account, two classic hotel restaurants offer lavish possibilities.
owner
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Other officers could be bribed to turn a blind eye, said a restaurant owner in the port of Algeciras.
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The restaurant owner went around the room, trying to separate the dancers.
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With that vision in mind, Wilson got up early one recent day and headed to a marketing convention for restaurant owners .
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Her husband, a restaurant owner , was almost twice her age and diabetic.
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Abrahamian said the largest impact will be felt by restaurant owners .
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Rather we get a feeling for the differences in the island societies through encounters with restaurant owners .
■ VERB
dine
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It is used mainly in the evening by guests dining in the restaurant .
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He dines at the best restaurants , drinks fine wines and beds whomever attracts him.
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However, business lunches may crop up from time to time - and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants .
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While adults dine at restaurants , their children punch answers into boxes at the bar.
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Dalhousie Castle Hotel 800-year-old castle set in acres of land. Dine in interesting dungeon restaurant , drink in the library.
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Only in cities did we dine in restaurants ..
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Well-groomed young couples dine in busy restaurants .
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The area has plenty of tourist traffic but also is frequented by area families dining at nearby restaurants .
eat
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We are new to the London area, and would like to eat in restaurants or visit pubs with others.
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The next time you eat in your favorite restaurant , check out the health claims on the menu.
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The whole business of eating out in restaurants she considered a worryingly overrated activity.
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Neither did she mind that the family now ate at the restaurant every night, one fried chicken part after another.
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If you eat in the staff restaurant at lunch-time, take your customers there too.
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Shall I go down and eat in the hotel restaurant , or shall I go out?
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The men ate lobster in the restaurant there, all at the same table that night.
open
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Kebab King opened its twenty-third franchised restaurant .
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Some open restaurants or teach school.
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He proposed opening a second restaurant in the park to emulate the success of the Beach Chalet.
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Burger King announced plans to open a 20O seat restaurant at Thorpe Park, Surrey.
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And why would they open a second restaurant a mere 2.3 miles from the first?
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My friend Tony was opening a restaurant in Noting Hill.
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Russell Thiel, chef-owner, fashioned his Caesar when he opened his restaurant last year.
run
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You might also consider whether they ought to continue with their attempt to run a second restaurant at all.
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His father ran a small restaurant in Nabaa.
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She and her husband ran a restaurant for eleven years before opening up Ford Farm in 1973.
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It had always been one of his Walter Mittyisms to run a restaurant , and this we discussed with extreme earnestness.
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They ran a restaurant at Barnard Castle until recently.
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Sandra Bates is a trained caterer who has run three restaurants .
serve
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Dinner is served in the lakeside restaurant and lunch snacks are available from a pizzeria.
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Girls, even, can learn factory work or serve in restaurants .
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Meals are served in the restaurant or guests can take lunch at the beach restaurant.
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Meals are served in the restaurant , looking over the mountains.
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Breakfast and evening meals are served in the panoramic restaurant .
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Meals are served in the intimate restaurant and include a sumptuous buffet breakfast.
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One evening, whilst serving in the restaurant , Manuel is rude to a customer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a Chinese restaurant
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A licensed restaurant serves good food all day.
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Henderson's Salad Table Licensed wholefood restaurant with a remarkable selection of dishes.
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Patrons parking there also would be near the shops and restaurants on Grand Avenue.
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The dish was popular with taste testers, but it was some time before it caught on in the restaurants.
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The scene inside the lobby restaurant of the studio did nothing to make me less self-conscious.
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There are also new lounges for motorists, service restaurants, a play area, casino and cinemas.
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There was no need for the accused to reach the restaurant door.
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They kept going to this restaurant , and the proprietor took a liking to them.