| A: | This is such a nice restaurant! I feel so classy! |
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| B: | Yeah, it’s a little bit pricey, but they serve the best seafood in town. |
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| C: | May I Take your order? |
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| B: | Yes, I would like some marinated grilled shrimp for starters and I’ll also have the lobster. |
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| C: | Excellent choice sir. And for you madame? |
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| B: | I would like the baked oysters and the seafood platter. |
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| C: | Very good madame. |
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| B: | That seafood platter sounds good. Excuse me, what does the platter have? |
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| C: | It’s a great combination of clams, scallops, squid mussels, calamari and fillets of salmon and tuna. It comes with a side of butter sauce and french fries. |
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| B: | That sounds great! Cancel the lobster and give me one of the same please. |
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| C: | Very well sir. Anything to drink? |
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| A: | Can we get a bottle of your house white wine please? |
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| C: | Superb choice. I will be back shortly with the wine. |
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| class | | high class |
| pricey | | expensive |
| marinated | | To leave something to be soaked in a sauce for its flavour |
| starter | | as the first step or part |
| platter | | a course of a meal, usually consisting of a variety of foods served on the same plate. |
| clams | | Edible sea creature that buries it self in the sand. |
| scallops | | Edible sea creature similar to oysters that move in the water by opening and closing their shell. |
| squid | | a sea creature having a having a torpedo-shaped body |
| mussels | | Edible sea creature that attaches it to something such as a rock |
| calamari | | cooked squid cut into rings. |