A special restaurant
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Interviewer: Hi, Jo.
Jo: Hello.
Interviewer: Thank you for talking to me today. What would you like to talk about?
Jo: So, I'm going to tell you about my recent visit to, erm, a very well-known restaurant and a very special restaurant.
Interviewer: OK – great.
Jo: It's called El Celler de Can Roca and it's in Girona in Spain and, erm, it often comes in the, like, top two or three restaurants in the world.
Interviewer: Wow!
Jo: And I went last week. And, well, the first thing that was exciting for us was to even get a table 'cause, erm, we booked a year ago and we had to go, you have to go, 'cause you can book a year in advance, so you have to go online at one minute to midnight a year before you think you could go and keep refreshing, refreshing the page until places become available and just go immediately and get the table. So, we were really excited to have the table and we were kind of nervous on Friday because we waited a whole year, so expectations were really high. And it was also, by chance, boiling hot in Girona and it was in the middle of a heatwave. It was 44 degrees.
Interviewer: Oh my goodness.
Jo: So, we were just waiting in our hotel room, couldn't go outside 'cause it was too hot, erm, kind of wondering what this dinner was going to be like, er, and getting all dressed up. So, yeah, we went and, well, the place is beautiful, all … I thought it would be quite, erm, it didn't really feel formal though. The staff were all really friendly and they showed us inside the kitchen first. And it's amazing 'cause no one is stressed in the kitchen – or they did a good job of pretending that they weren't. And they were making amazing things that looked like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for adults – little olive trees with amazing, like, erm, er, olive kind of confections hanging from them. And, yeah, the whole thing was amazing – a once-in-a-lifetime experience of lots of different courses of tiny, beautiful, surprising things, erm …
Interviewer: What was the best dish that you had?
Jo: It was all amazing but I think the best thing for me was one of the desserts. I had a sheep-themed pudding …
Interviewer: Wow!
Jo: So, it was all, erm – So, it was like a woolly sheep. It was like candy floss, like, made with, erm, like, sort of white sugar like you have at the fair. Erm, and that was supposed to represent the wool, and the sound of the spoon on the bowl made the sound of the bell on the sheep in the field. And then separately I had this thing to smell that smelled of wool. So I was, like, eating this sheep wool and smelling the smell of wool at the same time which, it sounds really weird, but it was actually delicious.
Interviewer: Sounds incredible!
Jo: It really was! It really was amazing.
Interviewer: Wow. Thank you for telling us about it.
Jo: It's a pleasure.
thank you
I rarely eat out; however, dining out and walking around can be a wonderful and enjoyable experience for many people. If you want to maintain a healthy lifestyle, it is generally better to avoid eating out frequently, but it can still be an exciting experience for some individuals. Personally, I prefer to check the quality of the food before making a reservation rather than relying on people's comments, especially those on social media.
I don’t go to restaurants very often, but I like them a lot. The first reason is money. If you want to go to a restaurant with your family, it can be quite expensive.
The second reason is that I live in a small town where we don’t have many restaurants, or at least not many that are tasty and suit our preferences. So sometimes, if we want to try something new or visit a brand-new restaurant, we have to go to a bigger city, which is about 30 km from our home.
I don't, actually. But I would like to!
I rarely go to restaurants, although when I was in Tehran, I sometimes went to them. There are a lot of excellent restaurants in Tehran, which is why selecting a famous and favorite restaurant is very difficult.
If I want to talk about my favorite restaurants, I can mention a few of them.
One of the most famous restaurants in Tehran is Nayeb. This restaurant is 140 years old.
There is another one, Hani restaurant, which has a lot of branches in Tehran. On the weekends, you have to wait for an empty table.
My favorite restaurant is Shater Abbas. Everything in this place is memorable for me: the traditional design and high-quality dishes, but the most important thing for me is the hot and fresh traditional bread which is baked there.
This conversation is awesome. But I think this restaurant is so popular that you should book the table one year in advance. That's incredible!!!
useful to know! Thanks a lot
I do not got very often to "restaurants", my boyfriend and I prefer what we call "brasseries". They have nothing to do with the breweries, although you find a lot of different beers (I live in Belgium), but they offer different family dishes like pasta's, stews, burgers, etc.
Because we we go out, it is with the children, who are teenagers and therefore very demanding when it comes to food. This Friday, we will go to an asian restaurant that makes sushis, poké bowls, etc...kids love that
I was wondered when i started to answer since i didn't know how to reorder/place my answers ( i couldn't find any help on that ) once i knew then it was fun!
well, since I go out for my both theatre classes and hanging out with friends, I usually prefer eating out,nevertheless, recently I prefer eating in cause' staff's hygiene and dish's wide range of variety are vital for me.