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A restaurant review

A restaurant review

Learn how to write a restaurant review.

Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and tips and do the exercises.

Preparation

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Vega, New York

Reviewed yesterday

★★★☆☆

Great mains, pity about the chips

Came for lunch with my sister. We loved our Thai-style mains which were amazing with lots of flavour, very impressive for a vegetarian restaurant.

But the service was below average and the chips were too terrible to finish.

When we arrived at 1.40, we had to wait 20 minutes while they got our table ready. OK, so we didn't have a reservation, but the restaurant was only half full. There was no reason to make us wait at all.

We ordered the chips as a side dish and they looked delicious. But, when we tasted them, they were overcooked and swimming in oil so we left most of them. We expected a lot more for $10!

When the waiter asked if everything was ok, we said we really didn't like the chips and he said 'That's funny, I love them' and that was it. He didn't offer us anything else or take them off our bill. Also, when we didn't leave a tip, he looked annoyed.

I was really excited about visiting Vega, and the mains were just fantastic, but the rest of the experience was really disappointing.

Tips

  1. Use an informal or semi-formal style.
  2. In the title, give the main idea or opinion.
  3. Write about the important parts of the experience, not every detail.
  4. Organise your ideas into paragraphs.
  5. Write about the good and the bad.

Task 1

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Task 2

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Task 3

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Discussion

Have you ever had a bad meal in a restaurant?

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Submitted by huyentran on Mon, 17/02/2020 - 01:57

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I had a bad meal during my trip to Thailand. it was the first day I went to Thailand and when I arrived at the hotel it was night so I decided to have dinner at the hotel. but their food is bad, I don't know because I'm not used to their food or their food is bad but that made me very disappointed in the first place. On the other hand, it's very expensive

Submitted by shahhoseini on Sat, 15/02/2020 - 18:59

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As far as I can remember, I haven't experienced this situation, so far.

Submitted by Vika Demina on Tue, 11/02/2020 - 04:14

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Month ago I was in Chinese restaurant in Moscow. Usually when I come to similar restaurant I prefer to order tom yam. Its a real quest for me to find a good tom yam in Moscow. After 30 minutes waiting for my meal, waiter brought me something looked like a chicken bouillon with one or two squid rings floating in it. No shrimps, no mushrooms, no chili pepper, for a second it seemed to me like it was soup from the hospital for diabetics. As a result, on that day I was very upset and hungry.

Submitted by conejo on Tue, 04/02/2020 - 02:42

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We have had a bad experience in a local restaurant near my house, which was the best option for sundays in the past. However today this restaurant is the worst of the Block because the food is oily, burnt and Cold.

Submitted by hungrymoon on Mon, 13/01/2020 - 14:11

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Ok so. Let's review Beykoz. Probably you hear the name Beykoz, but this restaurant is not that one. Near Mogan lake, this restaurant is above average which come to mind with excellent service and steaks. In fact Beykoz is not only a restaurant that you can find good steak but also excellent drinking. I think that if you want to drink some alcoholic drinking, the restaurant has to a good view. Otherwise, what other thing could differ any restaurant than the others? No such a restaurant you may find in Ankara. Anyway, as I mentioned above, If you want to eat some delicious steak and drink wine or Turkish raki, this option must be one of the favourites.

Submitted by gzacharias on Fri, 22/11/2019 - 16:18

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Yes, I´ve already had a bad meal in a restaurant. It was in Spain, 2007. My wife and I went to a restaurant, a beautiful one, but right before our food arrive, a person at the table next to us started smoking. The smell was terrible and we could not move to another chair, because it was full and it was allowed to smoke everywhere. Since then, we have always been looking for non-smoking restaurants

Submitted by cittàutopica on Fri, 25/10/2019 - 19:18

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It's one of my hobbies to visit restaurants and to write the reviews, which I send to a website, where people concerned can find out about the best and the worst restaurants. It might happen that expectation could not be confirmed in some restaurants, of course. This can concern the meal or the service or the bill.

Submitted by gicandrade on Wed, 23/10/2019 - 09:17

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Last week, my friend and I went to the most famous coffee in the city, Bangaloos. I waited a long time to go there, because I never had time. When we arrived there, we saw that the coffee wasn’t full and had the delicious croissants. Hummm, I thought. I was so excited about the idea that I didn´t see what was happening around me. A group of guys were spoke and laughed out loud that we didn’t got to listen each other. It was a terrible experience. I did’t to enjoy the moment. I was so said and angry at the situation that I went out. I couldn’t get to eat my croissants. Besides that, I forgot my bag on the chair. When I came to the coffee, I ask for my bag to the waiters and he said that he hadn’t seen it. I left and tried to forget the terrible experience. I still think about it today and promised to me that I won’t be back in that place anymore.