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Smoking is not allowed in this restaurant.这个饭店内不许抽烟。
They do really good food at that restaurant and it's not very expensive either.那家餐厅饭菜做得很好，而且价格也不太贵。
You seemed a bit hesitant about recommending that restaurant - is something wrong with it?你似乎不是很愿意推荐那家餐厅——它有什么问题吗？
A lot of new restaurants have started up in the region.这个地区有很多家新餐馆开业。
Their chain of pubs and restaurants brings in millions of pounds a year.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Restaurants & cafes
all-you-can-eat
automat
bill of fare
bistro
blue plate
creperie
degustation
diner
drive-through
du jour
pizza parlour
pizzeria
plat du jour
prix fixe
raw bar
tasting menu
tea room
teahouse
transport café
wait staff

Examples from literature

All of the food was wrapped in paper that showed the name of the restaurant. 
At a sushi restaurant, you sit and the table moves! 
He worked in restaurants and put the money away for his trip. 
He’s in the food business: he works in a restaurant. 
In an expensive part of a city, restaurant space costs a lot, and so do the pizzas. 
In some places the law says that people cannot smoke in restaurants. 
It has many stores – and some very expensive restaurants and cafés! 
It was cold near the door in the restaurant, so I moved to a different table. 
It’s sold by restaurants, supermarkets, and pizza delivery stores. 
Many pizza restaurants and delivery stores are franchises. 
Or call your favorite restaurants and pay them to send food to your house. 
Paris has restaurants from nearly every country in the world. 
There are beautiful hotels and great restaurants – French cooking is also famous. 
They stay at hotels, eat in restaurants, and buy things in shops. 
Think of people working in restaurant kitchens or builders working outside in the heat of the sun. 

restaurant | American Dictionary

restaurant
noun[ C ]
us/ˈres·tər·ənt, -təˌrɑnt/
a place of business where people can choose a meal to be prepared and served to them at a table, and for which they pay, usually after eating:
a Chinese/Italian/Mexican restaurant

restaurant | Business English

restaurant
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈrestərɒnt/us
COMMERCE
a place where meals are prepared and served to paying customers:
She has no experience of running a restaurant.
the restaurant business/industry
a restaurant chain
a restaurant owner/manager

Examples of restaurant

restaurant
How can we account for the existence of an effective norm that directs strangers to leave tips in restaurants that they will never visit again?
Although he starts work again at noon time, he has to return to the restaurant at about eleven in the morning and get everything prepared.
Restaurant visits and participation in study circles almost tripled and attending cultural activities doubled.
As an interesting example, consider the exchanges that take place when ordering in a fast-food restaurant.
A small museum as well as a snack bar, a restaurant, and a souvenir shop were built in the vicinity of the attraction.
These elements combine to create a profile that is an outright denial of the semiotics of the meyhanes and the luxury seafood restaurants.
Similarly, he eats and drinks at the restaurant because of desires generated by internal mechanisms of hunger and thirst.
Consumption of chicken at restaurants or canteens was associated with an increased risk and explained 11 % of the cases.
Illness in the community was associated with the consumption of foods in restaurants or drinking unpasteurized milk.
They were more likely to report the consumption of organic vegetables, vegetarian foods, food in restaurants, unpasteurized milk or bottled water.
Interviews included questions about food consumption at 22 chain restaurants because case interviews suggested a common exposure to one of two restaurant chains.
He will sell the crops to customers at farmers' markets and restaurants within 40 miles of his farm.
The restaurant seats approximately 200 dining customers with a bar0waiting area that seats an additional 100 customers.
For example, in a restaurant setting, utterances might be activated by clicking on the glass on the table, the menu or the bill.
Environmental investigations of local clusters supported the hypothesis that lettuce prepared in fast food restaurants was the likely source of infection.
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Collocations withrestaurant

restaurant

These are words often used in combination with restaurant.

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barbecue restaurant
The menu eventually incorporated hamburgers, and then shifted into a barbecuerestaurant.
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