What is the difference between cafe and restaurant?
cafe | restaurant | Synonyms |
A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises.
A French pub.
An eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
Restaurant is a coordinate term of cafe.
As nouns the difference between cafe and restaurant
is that cafe is a coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises while restaurant is an eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.cafe
English
(wikipedia café)Alternative forms
* cafe * * caff (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (coffee shop) caff (British slang), coffeehouse, coffee shop, tea shop * (French pub) seeCoordinate terms
* bar * bistro * cafeteria * restaurantDerived terms
*Anagrams
* ----restaurant
English
Noun
(en noun)George Goodchild