Restaurant atmosphere and friends

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OK, and when you go to a restaurant, what's your favourite part of eating there?

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I like to be around lots of people.

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I really love it when a restaurant has a good atmosphere.

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I love spending time with friends.

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What about you? Why do you like eating in a restaurant?

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Well, I like to go to a restaurant that serves food that I don't know how to cook.

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Yep, that's a good point.

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So, restaurants with food from countries that I don’t know very well

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or that are very different types of food to the food I make.

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It’s really nice to eat out and that means to eat not at your home

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because you don't have to make the food and you don't have to wash up.

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That's true, yes.

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It’s also nice to eat out for a special occasion. So, like a birthday or a celebration.

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Yes and another special occasion could be something like Christmas and we at

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BBC Learning English are eating out for that special occasion.

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We're having a celebration, aren't we?

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Yes, every year we have a Christmas party and we usually eat out in a restaurant.

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So, Neil, you said you like eating out in lots of different types of