Synonyms for restaurant

Grammar : Noun

Spell : res-ter-uh nt, -tuh-rahnt, -trahnt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛs tər ənt, -təˌrɑnt, -trɑnt

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Définition of restaurant

Origin : 1821, from French restaurant "a restaurant," originally "food that restores," noun use of present participle of restaurer "to restore or refresh," from Old French restorer (see restore).
In 1765 a man by the name of Boulanger, also known as "Champ d'Oiseaux" or "Chantoiseau," opened a shop near the Louvre (on either the rue des Poulies or the rue Bailleul, depending on which authority one chooses to believe). There he sold what he called restaurants or bouillons restaurants--that is, meat-based consommés intended to "restore" a person's strength. Ever since the Middle Ages the word restaurant had been used to describe any of a variety of rich bouillons made with chicken, beef, roots of one sort or another, onions, herbs, and, according to some recipes, spices, crystallized sugar, toasted bread, barley, butter, and even exotic ingredients such as dried rose petals, Damascus grapes, and amber. In order to entice customers into his shop, Boulanger had inscribed on his window a line from the Gospels: "Venite ad me omnes qui stomacho laboratis et ego vos restaurabo." He was not content simply to serve bouillon, however. He also served leg of lamb in white sauce, thereby infringing the monopoly of the caterers' guild. The guild filed suit, which to everyone's astonishment ended in a judgment in favor of Boulanger. [Jean-Robert Pitte, "The Rise of the Restaurant," in "Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present," English editor Albert Sonnenfeld, transl. Clarissa Botsford, 1999, Columbia University Press]
Italian spelling ristorante attested in English by 1925.

noun business establishment serving food and drink

Example sentences :

He turned into a restaurant on Madison Square and ordered dinner.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Then he raced around the corner of the restaurant and made for the grove.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

He knew nothing of her except her name and that she was employed as a waitress in a restaurant.
Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine

He opened the door and was about to pass out of the restaurant when she spoke to him again.
Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine

And this was strange, since the Italian restaurant is such a peculiarly British institution.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

There's a girl at Montmartre at this very moment—a girl he's set up in a restaurant.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

It was early in the morning when the two met again in the restaurant car.
Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr

He was a witness of your quarrel with Grushnitski in the restaurant.
Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov

Except for the thin and uncertain music the restaurant was almost silent.
Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens

They eventually settled on a restaurant and ordered their repast.
Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill

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