AEE: Casual or Fine Dining? Restaurant English Explained
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an All Ears English podcast. Casual or fine dining?
What is the difference between casual and fine dining?
Restaurant English explained.
Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer. coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. How do you know if someone is inviting you out to a fancy restaurant or a more casual place? Listen in for key vocabulary and clues in English today. Hey there, Aubrey. How's everything? I'm great, Lindsay. How are you? Good. I am ready to get into talking about restaurants.
This is a good topic. I love it. Who doesn't love dining out?
I know. Who doesn't love dining out? Who doesn't love talking about food and dining out? It's such a great conversation topic.
Yeah. And so on that note, Aubrey, what types of restaurants do you like? Where do you go when you like to eat out?
My favorite is Indian food. And you just can't go wrong. Every restaurant I've ever been to, Chicken Makhani, Alugobi are my favorites. And it's always delicious. I'm never disappointed. And I can't cook it myself. I have tried. It's never as good. So Mexican, I can make Mexican at home. I can't really get in. Can you cook Indian food, Lindsay? Oh, gosh, no. No. It's very difficult. And you have to buy the garam masala and the turmeric and all of the spices and it's just never as good.
And it still wouldn't be as good. So that's one that's totally worth either going out or doing takeout for, I think.
Absolutely. What about you? What restaurants do you like?
Oh, my gosh. A lot of stuff. So Mexican's big in Denver. I'll say that.
How can you tell if a restaurant is casual or fine dining?
I like Thai food. I like to go out for Thai food sometimes. Me too. And also just sort of like new trendy restaurants. Denver is not a huge restaurant scene, I'll say that. We have some good ones, but they're a little less common than on the East Coast when I lived in New York and Boston.
We went to three restaurants on Valentine's Day because we didn't have a reservation. So we went to three sort of, it was like a wine bar that had apps. And we did like a drink and an app at three different places. And they were all quite a bit fancier than our usual haunts. So it was kind of fun to go somewhere for just a drink and an app.
No, that's perfect. That's really fun. It's fun to make up your own little Valentine's Day dates. We just went for ice cream. Yeah, we just went for ice cream with our dog. We loved it. It was the best Valentine's Day.
Well, today we are listening. We're answering a listener's question about restaurants. So if you like dining out, you are going to love this topic and you should be ready to connect about this topic. I've never had a conversation about food and dining out where I was bored. Like it's a fun connection topic.
Nope, because people are always looking for new restaurant recommendations. That too. You can learn a lot about someone based on where they went, where they suggest you go, about how fancy they are, how much they value food. There's a lot here. So Aubrey, would you read our listener question to get a started?
Absolutely. This is from Mauro. Shout out to Mauro. He has sent us some amazing questions. He said, great episode 1522. I learned pull its weight. And I have a question for you. I was watching an American culinary reality show. There were assignments on casual dining and fine dining. Could you talk a little bit about this? Is it a matter of price, ingredients, etiquette? Mauro, such a good question.
Yeah, great question. Oh my gosh. Yeah. What is the difference, right? Fine dining and casual dining. We love the question because again, dining out is a huge connection moment with the person you're out with or also whoever you're talking about. Maybe you went out over the weekend, like you're talking about your Valentine's date right now.
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