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Unusual restaurants
• food adjectives • food
Eat out for less

‘How much is it?’ In some restaurants, the answer is: ‘What you want to pay.’

Here are some of the ‘Pay-what-you-want’ restaurants around the world.

A Der Wiener Deewan, B Soul Kitchen - Red Bank, C Lentil As Anything,
Vienna, Austria New Jersey, USA Melbourne, Australia

This is a Pakistani restaurant but it is Soul Kitchen is a great place to go for
in Vienna. You go down some stairs lunch. The menu has choices of
to a small room with seats for about starters - my favourite is the mixed
fifty ipeople. There are no menus and green salad, main course - fish,
no waiters. The food is in large, hot, meat or vegetarian, and dessert.
containers on a table and you take But, it doesn’t have any prices.
what you want. The meal then costs That’s because you can pay what you
want. The restaurant asks for $10 or
more, but people who haven’t got
$10 can eat there and work for an This is a vegetarian restaurant in
hour to pay for their meal. The food Australia’s second city. In fact, there
is healthy and local. The restaurant are four Lentil As Anything restaurants
even has a garden and grows a lot of in the city. Nine hundred people eat in
the vegetables that they use in their the restaurant in the Abbotsford
what you want to pay. The traditional, meals. district of the city every day. The
Pakistani food is delicious, but be restaurants are open all day and you
careful, some of it is very spicy! Try can eat breakfast, lunch and dinner
the Methi Gajar - spicy but sweet there. They are friendly places where
vegetables - and, of course, some you can chat to other customers,
Pakistani rice. The restaurant isn’t listen to good music and, when you
only a ‘pay-what-you-want’ restaurant leave, you put some money in a box.
but also a ‘play what you want’ The food is healthy and delicious.
restaurant. In the evenings, you can They don't serve meat but you can
take a djembe, an African drum, and find great food with other ingredients
play music with others. It’s a really like pumpkin. Their pumpkin curry is
cool place to spend some time. amazing.

GLOSSARY
drum (n) - a musical instrument played by hitting chat (v) - talk in a friendly, informal way
it with your hand or a stick customer (n) - someone who buys goods or services
grow (v) - to make plants develop and produce fruit or from a shop, restaurant, etc.
flowers or become big enough to eat pumpkin (n)- a large, orange vegetable that is popular
district (n) - an area of a town at Halloween

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