Food and Dining Vocabulary
Wow! This is a great topic for most people, isn`t it? Anyway, now you can talk about your favorite dishes and the way people cook in your country. Share your information with classmates or friends about restaurants and places in your city to go for lunch or dinner. The table below contains food and dining vocabulary could be used during conversation in addition to your own vocabulary.
Word/phrase |
Function |
Meaning |
| Tip/ He left a good tip. | Noun | An extra amount of money that you give to someone (such as a waitress or waiter) who performs a service for you. |
| Eating out/ dining out | Phrasal Verb | Eat at a restaurant or at somebody else’s home. |
| 1.Waitress/2.Waiter | Nouns | 1. A woman who serves food or drinks to people in a restaurant/2. A man who serves food or drinks to people in a restaurant. |
| Fine dining | Noun | Fine dining restaurants are full service restaurants with specific dedicated meal courses/having high quality. |
| Bring the menu please. | Common statement | asking the waiter/waitress to bring you the menu. |
| Are you ready to order? | Common statement | Asking the customer if they are ready to order food. |
| Appetizer | Noun | A small dish of food served before the main part of a meal. |
| Entree | Noun | The main dish of a meal, especially in a restaurant. |
| Dessert | Noun | Sweet food eaten after the main part of a meal. |
| Recipe | Noun | a set of instructions for making food. |
| Ingredient | Noun | One of the things that are used to make a food, product, etc. |
| Cuisine | Noun | A style of cooking/ food that is cooked in a particular way. |
| Ripe/ The fruit is ripe for eating. |
Adjective | fully grown and developed and ready to be eaten. |
| 1.Dates / 2.Nuts | Noun | 1. A small, sweet, brown fruit from a kind of palm tree/2. A small dry fruit with a hard shell that grows on trees, bushes, etc. |
| Organic Food | Noun | Grown or made without the use of artificial chemicals. |
| 1.Health Food/ 2.Junk Food |
Noun | 1. Food that is good for health/2.Food that is not good for your health because it contains high amounts of fat or sugar. |
| Beverage | Noun | Something you can drink: a liquid for drinking |
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Hello, this is Leo Harry. Nice that table of food dining vocabulary is really very interesting.