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Twenty years ago British people usually ate at home. They went out for a meal only sometimes, like for somebody’s birthday. But today many people eat out at least once a week.

There are many kinds of restaurants in England. Some of them are traditional restaurants where a waiter serves customers, and others are self-servicerestaurants.

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There are all-daycafes and sandwich bars which are very popular and crowded, especially during the lunch hour, but it is getting more and more expensive to have meals there.

At self-servicecafeterias a customer serves himself, and he can get a meal more quickly and less expensively there than in other types of restaurants. But the most popular place «for a drink and a chat»1 has been and still is the famous English pub2 with its cosy and friendly at­ mosphere. People go to pubs not only for some beer or whisky, but to meet their friends and they often spend the whole evening there till closing time.

A lot of people buy fish and ships3 — the classic English take-awayfood4 in“fish-and-chipshops” and eat it in the street or at home. Fast food restaurants5 are very popular too. The most common food there is ham­ burgers, of course. But the British people also like Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine which shows that they have become quite cosmopolitan in their eating habits.

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After the talks Mr Stanley invited Mr Borisov to have dinner at the Sa­ voy Restaurant in the West End.

They came into the restaurant, took their seats at a table near the window and ordered cocktails.

Borisov:

Mr Stanley, I’ve been staying in London only for a week and I

Stanley:

don’t know much about English meals.

Well, if you like, I can give you a general idea about that.



At breakfast we usually have porridge, bacon and eggs,



sausages, tomatoes. The traditional drink is tea which we



have with milk, but some people have coffee, often instant



coffee6. English lunch consists of two courses: a meat or a



fish course with vegetables and dessert. At 5 o’clock in the



afternoon we have tea, often with a cake. Most people have



their last meal, which is rather big, at 7 or 8 in the evening,



and call it dinner, while others have a small, late evening

Borisov:

meal, which they call supper.

Thank you, Mr Stanley, that was interesting.

Stanley:

Let’s study the menu and see what’s on it tonight.

Waiter:

Good evening, gentlemen. Are you ready to order?

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Borisov: I’m afraid I don’t understand the names of all dishes on the



menu, Mr Stanley. Could you help me and recommend what to

Stanley:

take?

With pleasure. H-m-m,would you like mushroom soup?

Horisov:

No, thank you. I seldom eat soup in the evening.

Stanley:

Then you can order roast-beefwith fried potatoes. It’s a

Horisov:

traditional English dish and it’s usually delicious.

Fine.

Waiter:

How about you, sir?

Stanley:

Well, I’m pretty hungry. I’ll start with chicken soup, then



I’d like a steak with green salad. And bring us a bottle of

Waiter:

red wine, please.

Would you like to order dessert now? There is a choice be­

Borisov:

tween fruit and ice-cream.

I prefer fruit.

Stanley:

So do I. What about some cheese?

Borisov:

No cheese for me, thank you.

Stanley:

I think I’ll have some, And we’ll finish with black coffee, if

Borisov:

you don’t mind.

That sounds nice.

Waiter:

Thank you, gentlemen. I hope you’ll enjoy yourselves.