restaurant

res·tau·rant

R5198800 (rĕs′-tə-ränt′, -tər-ənt) n. A business establishment where meals are served to the public.

[French, restorative soup, restaurant, from present participle of restaurer, to restore, from Old French restorer; see restore.]

restaurant

(ˈrɛstəˌrɒŋ; ˈrɛstrɒŋ; -rɒnt) na commercial establishment where meals are prepared and served to customers[C19: from French, from restaurer to restore]

res•tau•rant

(ˈrɛs tər ənt, -təˌrɑnt, -trɑnt)

n. an establishment where meals are served to customers. [1830–40, Amer.; < French, n. use of present participle of restaurer < Latin restaurāre to restore]

Thesaurus

Noun

restaurant - a building where people go to eat eatery, eating house, eating placebistro - a small informal restaurant; serves winebrasserie - a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheapbrewpub - a combination brewery and restaurant; beer is brewed for consumption on the premises and served along with foodbuilding, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"cafe, coffee bar, coffee shop, coffeehouse - a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are soldcafeteria - a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashiercanteen - restaurant in a factory; where workers can eatmobile canteen, canteen - a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemendiner - a restaurant that resembles a dining cargreasy spoon - a small restaurant specializing in short-order fried foodsgrill, grillroom - a restaurant where food is cooked on a grillhash house - an inexpensive restaurantlunchroom - a restaurant (in a facility) where lunch can be purchasedrotisserie - a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meatschophouse, steakhouse - a restaurant that specializes in steakstea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom, teashop - a restaurant where tea and light meals are availablerestaurant chain - a chain of restaurants

restaurant

noun café, diner (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), bistro, cafeteria, trattoria, tearoom, eatery or eaterie We had dinner in the hotel's restaurant.

Translations

餐馆饭馆

restaurant

(ˈrestront) , ((American) -tərənt) noun a place where meals may be bought and eaten. 餐馆，饭馆 ˈrestaurant-car noun a carriage on a train in which meals are served to travellers. 餐车

restaurant

→ 餐馆zhCN

Is there a restaurant on the campsite? → 宿营地内有餐馆吗？
Can you recommend a good restaurant? → 能给推荐一个好餐馆吗？

restaurant

restaurant,

a commerical establishment where meals can be bought and eaten. In the 16th cent. English inns and taverns began to serve one meal a day at a fixed time and price, at a common table, and usually distinguished by a special dish. The meal was called the ordinary, and inn dining rooms and eating places generally began to be called ordinaries. Famous among those in London were the Castle, much frequented by luminaries, and Lloyd'sLloyd's,
London insurance underwriting corporation of many separate syndicates; often called Lloyd's of London. Founded in the late 17th cent. by a group of merchants, shipowners, and insurance brokers at the coffeehouse of Edward Lloyd, the association is now international in
..... Click the link for more information. , a meeting place for merchants. In the 17th cent. the ordinaries became fashionable clubs, gambling resorts, and eventually centers of such intense political activity that they were closed by Charles II in 1675. In France, a loose equivalent of the ordinary called the table d'hôte, which served a standard daily meal, usually roasted meat, at a communal table, was popular by the mid-18th cent. The name restaurant was first used (c.1765) for a Paris establishment serving light ("restoring") dishes. By the late 18th cent., the Parisian restaurant had become a place offering single servings from a somewhat varied menu and seating at private tables. After the French Revolution, many former chefs of aristocratic houses opened restaurants. While the revolutionaries had favored the egalitarian table d'hôte, the bourgeoisie of the Restoration transformed the restaurant into a French institution that flourished in the 19th cent. and thereafter.

Early American taverns and inns resembled those of England. The White Horse Tavern in Newport, R.I. (founded 1673), claims to be the oldest. Fraunces Tavern (see under Fraunces, SamuelFraunces, Samuel
, c.1722–95, American innkeeper, proprietor of the historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City. This building at the corner of Broad and Pearl streets was the De Lancey mansion before Fraunces purchased it in 1762 and opened it as the Queen's Head
..... Click the link for more information. ) in New York was a famous meeting place. The first modern restaurant in New York City was opened (c.1831) by John and Peter Delmonico. The self-service restaurant, or cafeteria, was originated in the United States by philanthropic organizations to help working women secure cheaper meals. The idea was rapidly adopted by commercial restaurants, business organizations, and schools. An outgrowth of the cafeteria was the automat, which first opened in 1902 in Philadelphia and offered prepared food that was displayed behind small glass doors and could be purchased by depositing coins into a slot, which opened the doors. Although the last automat closed in 1991, the idea survives in the fully automated vending area, in which prepackaged food and drinks are dispensed from coin-operated machines. In the 1920s and 30s, dinersdiner,
restaurant resembling the railroad dining car. In the mid-19th cent., the first dining cars that appeared on trains were nothing more than an empty car with a fastened-down table. George M.
..... Click the link for more information. , quick, cheap eating places resembling railroad dining cars, became popular places to eat. Car service restaurants, or drive-ins, first appeared in Florida during the 1930s. The foods sold at lunch counters and drive-ins was called fast food: hamburgers, hotdogs, french fries, and milk shakes. The franchising of fast-food restaurants has led to a boom in these establishments, and today millions of people throughout the world eat at fast-food chains such as McDonald's. Since World War II, most major cities have experienced a proliferation of ethnic restaurants.

Bibliography

See J. Finkelstein, Dining Out (1989); R. L. Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant (2000); A. B. Trubek, Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession (2000); A. Haley, Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880–1920 (2011).

Restaurant

A commercial establishment where meals to order are served to the public, either in a separate building or within a hotel or other facility.

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A building (or part of a building) or any place used as a place where meals or sandwiches are prepared and/or served to its clientele.

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noun café

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noun a building where people go to eat

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