Food and eating out

dining 46 terms TOEIC Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

Restaurants supply a large share of TOEIC Part 2 and Part 3 exchanges: booking a table, a dish sent back, a bill that does not add up. The words to have ready are the practical ones — reservation, portions, rare and well-done, check, service charge, overcharged — plus the register shift from a formal notice on a menu to what a diner actually says.

How to use this list

Study the list below, then check that you can use each word in a sentence about ordering, eating or paying.

Target vocabulary

à la carte allergic to appetizer bill book a table buffet check course cuisine customers diners dietary requirements dish eat out entrée fond of free-range fresh produce gone off gratuity helping ingredients keen on menu nutritious organic overcharge patrons portion rare recommend refrain from reservation service charge side dish specialty starter take-out teetotaler tip undercooked vegan vegetarian waiting staff well-done wholesome

This lesson is a word list. Its exercise is not published: the source we imported it from lost the formatting the questions relied on, and a key we cannot verify is worse than no key.