B1 Reading 2022
B1 Reading 2022
B1 Reading 2022
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This café...
Example: has food which is surprisingly inexpensive. The correct answer is: C
A: Pepe’s
A Spanish style theme restaurant. Full of plastic decorations and awful photographs of Spain on the
walls, the general feeling is of being in a theme park for children not a grown up restaurant. The food
though is very good and there is plenty of it. I took a Spanish friend and she was very sceptical but said
that the soups and the pastries were better than some of the restaurants she has been in in some parts
of Spain. They concentrate on a regional menu and all the dishes are from different parts of Spain so
you can learn a bit about the country and the origin of the dishes you are going to have. There’s more
information on the back of the menu.
Really nice food and extremely nice staff. The food is international, they have specialities from different
countries. Moussaka from Greece and spaghetti with meatballs, Italy of course, were the dishes of the
day when we went and these change every day so there’s always something new. They really do try
to look around for new things and they seem to ask all of their customers where they are from. If it’s
somewhere interesting then they ask if you have any good recipes. I suppose they really get them all off
the internet or recipe books but it’s nice that they ask and they do seem genuinely curious.
C: Andre’s
This café doesn’t have a wide range of foods but what there is is really good and cheap. What isn’t
cheap is the beer and wine but the place has beers from just about everywhere, Japan, India, as well
as really nice Belgian stuff and wine from everywhere too. An expensive evening if you drink a lot
but worth it. There’s no real theme for the food, it’s just the usual restaurant things and mostly quite
simple but nicely done and, unlike the drinks, really quite cheap for what you get. What is great is the
atmosphere, the music is really cool and they will play requests if they have the CD. The staff really leave
you alone to get on with your conversation and your meal and don’t interrupt every two minutes to ask
if everything is OK.
The only decent Indian Restaurant I could find. Don’t be put off by the cost which soon adds up with all
the different courses. The only other negative is the constant music which really annoyed me. The food
is fantastic and the waiters, all Indians, who seem to speak every European language there is, are really
friendly. They sell Indian beer and some not very good wine, they serve the beer really cold – good with
spicy food and it’s good if a little sweet for my tastes. They have all the traditional things but also a lot
of ordinary stuff if you don’t like spicy food. You can just have a steak or grilled chicken and they will
happily give you chips and a burger if you insist.