Name: Talking about restaurants 🍽️👨🍳🥗 Real Easy English
Uploaded: 2026-03-04T16:33:45.000Z
Duration: 4 min 55 s
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Well, today's episode is all about restaurants and food.

And when you go to a restaurant, what's your favourite part of eating there?

I really love it when a restaurant has a good atmosphere.

Well, I like to go to a restaurant that serves food that I don't know how to cook.

So restaurants with food from countries that I don't know very well or that are very different types of food to the food I make, it's really nice to eat out.

That means to eat not at your home because you don't have to make the food and you don't have to wash up.

It's also nice to eat out for a special occasion.

And another special occasion could be something like Christmas and we at BBC, learning English are eating out for that special occasion.

Every year we have a Christmas party and we usually eat out in a restaurant.

So, Neil, you said you like eating out in lots of different types of restaurants.

Well, I really like spicy food, like Indian curries.

And I like fish, so I like to get fish curry.

And we have a special way of ordering, don't we?

What are some phrases we can use to order things in restaurants?

Yeah, so we can say, I'll have the fish curry.

And you can also say, can I have the fish curry please as well.

Georgie, what do you usually order in a restaurant?

I also usually get the fish or a risotto.

So we can also say can I get the risotto as well as can I have the risotto?

And notice that we say the risotto, not a risotto.

Let's recap the language we learned during the conversation we had Eat out, which means eat a meal at a restaurant rather than at home.

Special occasion, a birthday, anniversary or other reason to celebrate.

And we learned that when we order in a restaurant, we usually say I'll have the something fish, chicken, risotto or can I get the and what you want to order.

So for example, when I eat at my favourite restaurant, I always get the risotto.

Thanks for listening to Real Easy English.

If you like restaurants, you could try our drama series the White Elephant, all about a busy restaurant kitchen.

There's a link in the notes for this program.

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