Hotel-restaurant, usually in the country serves alcoholic drinks café-restaurant, serves drinks and simple meals café-restaurant, choice of beer and simple meals serves alcoholic drinks and coffee, some serve ice cream serves alcoholic drinks, serves meals self-service restaurant providing simple meals proper dining room quality can vary motorway restaurant, often a cafeteria high quality food, though sometimes no choice of menu, often more expensive shop selling cakes with a few tables to have tea or coffeeĬlosing times As shops tend to shut abruptly for lunch, so, oddly, do some restaurants. Types of restaurant une auberge un bar un bistrot une brasserie un café un café-restaurant une cafétéria un restaurant un restaurant d’autoroute un restaurant gastronomique un salon de thé Send any new terms (or comments on local variations of expressions) to: If you find interesting new terms that are not in this book, we would love to hear from you please let us know and we will try and include the terms in future editions.

Finally, as you travel you will doubtless find new local dishes and local names for ingredients – in our experience, this is particularly so with local names for different types of fish. Phrases to cover special diets are also included. We have also included helpful phrases for vegetarians, who traditionally have a difficult time eating out in France (where bacon and chicken are not always thought of as ‘meat’!). These have been selected to help you to find a restaurant, ask for the table that you want, order your meal, pay the bill – and, if necessary, complain. The dictionary includes several pages of useful phrases. This pocket book is structured in four main sections:Įnglish-French menu dictionary French-English menu dictionary French wines and wine terms French cheeses And unlike many other dictionaries, the text is fully bilingual – to and from English, so that you can easily translate a menu or ask for a favourite dish or a particular ingredient.We have included nearly 2,000 dishes and ingredients, with special chapters on wine and French cheeses (an essential part of any French meal). Preface If you have ever ordered from a menu written in French without being completely sure what you were asking for, then you need this pocket dictionary! We have compiled this book to provide an essential pocket companion for any traveller who likes to know what they are ordering and eating. Wines and spirits Wine regions Wine glossary Useful phrases for vegetarians Useful phrases for people on special diets etc. Useful French phrases Menu Getting to a restaurant Ordering Text processed and computer typeset by A & C Black Printed and bound in Italy by LegoprintĬontents Introduction Types of restaurant Closing times Tipping Public holidays in France Booking Meal times Rating schemes A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library I7605 1 eISBN-13: 978-1-4081-0196-4 Text Production and Proofreading Daisy Jackson A & C Black uses paper produced with elemental chlorine-free pulp, harvested from managed sustainable forests. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the permission of the publishers.

Eating out en français General Editor Simon Collin French Editor Françoise Laurendeauįirst published in Great Britain 2003 Reprinted 2005 A & C Black Publishers Ltd 37 Soho Square, London W1D 3QZ © Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2003 © A & C Black Publishers Ltd 2005 All rights reserved.

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