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Dublin restaurant guide

Before you read
1 How often do you eat in restaurants?
2 What kind of restaurants do you like?
3 Look up these food words in your dictionary. Which ones do / dont you like?
lobster mussels oysters cabbage pork salmon lamb bacon
Read the Dublin Restaurant Guide and answer the questions.
Dublin has a wide variety of restaurants for all tastes and all budgets. Here are some that
you might want to try.
The Victoria Hotel Restaurant (TuesSun 11.3024.00)
This beautiful hotel has a small restaurant on the ground floor serving Irish specialities as
well as foreign dishes. The wild salmon in champagne sauce is particularly good. The
waiters are friendly and helpful and the wine list is long and excellent, though a little
expensive. Expect to pay around 120 euros for dinner for two with wine.
The Galway Bay Restaurant (7 days a week 11.0023.00)
What can you get at the Galway Bay? Seafood, seafood, and more seafood! Fionnula
Kirby, the owner of the Galway Bay, gets fresh lobster, mussels, oysters, and about 12
kinds of fish brought from Galway Bay every day. I want the best for my customers,
Fionnula says, and her customers know it. The restaurant is so popular that if you want a
table youll need to book about two weeks in advance.
The Canal Inn (7 days a week 11.3023.30)
If you are hungry, the Canal Inn is the place to come. Very noisy and very smoky but the
food is good and the portions are huge! Here you can get Irish specialities: bacon and
cabbage, Irish stew, or some very good lamb from the Wicklow Mountains. The prices are
very reasonable: less than twelve euros for most meals.
Star of the East (7 days a week 12.0004.00)
This restaurant was set up by two language students who studied in Dublin: Li Phong from
China and Lena Ganesh from India. Indian and Chinese food are popular with Dubliners,
explained Li. Lena and I decided to join forces and set up our own place. Is it good? It
certainly is. On my two visits, I had a mushroom biryani, and a sweet and sour pork. Both
were very good and I will be back in the Star of the East very soon. Night birds will be
happy to know that the Star of the East is open until 4.00 in the morning!
The Soup Kitchen (Mon-Fri 11.3017.30)
As you probably realize, the Soup Kitchen serves soup. It is made fresh every day and the
standard is very high. Each large bowl of soup is served with freshly-baked bread and real
Irish butter. It is perfect for a quick lunch. Smokers should note that the Soup Kitchen has
a no smoking policy.

Which restaurant?

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It serves typically Irish food. ________________

It only serves one course. _______________
It serves food from other countries. ________________
It has a large selection of wine. ________________
You need to book 14 days in advance. ________________

Choose the correct alternative.

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The Galway Bay Restaurant specializes in meat / fish and seafood.

You can / cant smoke in the Soup Kitchen.
The Canal Inn is very expensive / not very expensive
The Star of the East closes early / late.
The soup in the Soup Kitchen is not bad / very good.

After you read

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Which restaurant is the best for you?

Do you like restaurants with a no smoking policy?
Would you like to open a restaurant? What kind of restaurant?

KEY
Which restaurant?
1 The Canal Inn and the Victoria Hotel Restaurant
2 The Soup Kitchen
3 The Victoria Hotel Restaurant and the Star of the East
4 The Victoria Hotel Restaurant
5 The Galway Bay
Choose the correct alternative
1 fish and seafood
2 cant
3 not very expensive
4 late
5 very good
From English File 1, extra reading material
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