restaurant
- an establishment where meals are served to customers.
Origin of restaurant
Related Words for restaurants
bar, diner, joint, inn, outlet, saloon, cafeteria, grill, hideaway, dive, canteen, lunchroom, chophouse, eatery, pizzeria, drive-in, luncheonetteExamples from the Web for restaurants
Contemporary Examples of restaurants
As I am in most restaurants, I was grateful for any modifications that could be made.
Tool around Capitol Hill, which brims gay bars, restaurants, and clubs.
The Ultimate LGBT Travel Bucket ListDecember 12, 2014
In a world without motels and restaurants, people were required to welcome strangers into their homes.
But for most people in Donetsk there is nowhere to go in the evening with most restaurants and bars closed.
There are more and more women managing hotels, groups of hotels, and restaurants.
Historical Examples of restaurants
He found the restaurants moderate in price, and within his means.
Brave and BoldHoratio Alger
Until then, he would stay at the flat, taking his meals at restaurants.
The Foolish LoversSt. John G. Ervine
The windows of the restaurants on the boulevards glittered with lights.
The Fat and the ThinEmile Zola
None of the hotels or the restaurants have put up their prices one cent.
Stories of a Western TownOctave Thanet
I ate to music, as you might say, same as I've read they do up to Boston restaurants.
ShavingsJoseph C. Lincoln
restaurant
- a commercial establishment where meals are prepared and served to customers
Word Origin for restaurant
Word Origin and History for restaurants
restaurant
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.