Unit 11

In the Bar

It’s comfortable and cozy in the bar. You can have cold snacks, various sandwiches, aromatic black coffee, rum, liqueurs, aperitif wines and cocktails; in hot weather – cooling beverages, juices, cocktails, ice-cream; in cold weather – punch and grog. There are rich sweets, pastry, pastry-cakes, chocolates, nuts, cigarettes and fruit in season (fresh fruit in summer and autumn, frozen in winter and spring).

Cocktails are aperitifs, digestives and original. Aperitif cocktails are served before the meal. They are: Old-fashioned, Manhattan, Martini and Cinzano. These cocktails improve the appetite.

The digestives are flips, smashes, cordial, oyster, frappe, and cocktails of “sour” group.

They are served after the meal and help to digest our food. In hot weather it’s recommended to drink “sour”. It’s a pleasant cooling cocktail, which quenches our thirst. It has much lemon juice in it. Some cocktails are decorated with fruit: lemons, oranges and berries.

People drink most cocktails using straws. When you drink “through a straw” it’s called “a long drink”, when you drink at a gulp – “a short drink”.

If you feel hungry you can go to the grill-bar and taste their special dishes: grilled sausage, fish grilled or fried, chicken on a spit or “Tabaka”, spicy shashlik (usually it’s pieces of mutton roasted on a spit), beefsteak and bastoorma. You can have black coffee and beverages.

There are a great variety of bars: salad-bars, fruit-bars, milk-bars, express-bars, snack-bars, beer-bars, disco-bars.

Salad-bars.

Salad-bars are equipped with a special counter with open refrigerating vegetable show.

There are: cut lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, spring onions, olives, hard-boiled eggs, boiled potatoes, carrots, beetroot, brown onions, dill, parsley, celery, cabbage, sauerkraut and also boiled meat, fish, sausage, cheese, cottage cheese and so on. In separate dishes there are: butter, sour cream, mayonnaise, oil, vinegar, mustard, salt, pepper, granulated sugar, horse-radish sauce. Each visitor puts vegetables, meat, fish or both, dressings and sauces in his salad-dish to his own taste. These bars represent one of the variants of “Swedish Board”.

Fruit-Bars.

It’s a new type of bar in out social catering. There are many juices, up to fifteen, electric mixer for milk cocktails, electric coffee-pot, samovar. Customers may have tea, coffee, buns, cakes, pies etc.

Milk-Bars.

Great attention should be paid to milk-bars. They can recommend a wide choice of milk products and beverages. Customers can taste milk noodles home style, noodle pudding stuffed with apples, Russian blini with butter or thick sour cream, pies, curd items, cheese sticks, butter, cheese and sausage, sandwiches, milk and cream shakes. Many dishes are made in the presence of customers. Milk-bars will be built close to big dairy shops.

Express-Bars.

Express-bars are arranged at the railway stations, hotels, in the shopping centres. Their aim is to serve the customers as quick as possible. The assortment is the following: sandwiches, baking items, pastry, milk products.

Ex. 1. Answer the following questions:

1. What improves the appetite?

2. What is the difference between “a long drink” and “a short drink”?

3. How are Salad-bars equipped?

4. Where can you find many juices?

5. Where are many dishes made in the presence of customers?

Ex. 2. Match the words in A with their definitions in B:

A	B
1. cater	a. a small amount of food that you eat between meals
2. beverage	b. to provide a person, object or place wit the things that they need for a particular purpose
3. digest	c. a group or set of things of various types
4. snack	d. to provide food and drinks at an event
5. assortment	e. when your stomach digests food, it changes it into the substances that your body needs
6. equip	f. a drink

Ex. 3. Complete the gaps with one of the words given below:

catering	taste
Express-bars	refrigerating
to digest

1. Salad-bars are equipped with a special counter with open ……… vegetable show.

2. It’s a new type of bar in out social ……...

3. ……… are arranged at the railway stations, hotels, in the shopping centres.

4. If you feel hungry you can go to the grill-bar and ……… their special dishes.

5. They are served after the meal and help ……… our food.

Ex. 4. Put the verbs in an appropriate tense and voice:

1. Each visitor (put) vegetables, meat, fish or both, dressings and sauces in his salad-dish to his own taste.

2. There (be) a great variety of bars: salad-bars, fruit-bars, milk-bars, snack-bars.

3. If you (be) hungry you can go to the grill-bar.

4. These bars (be) equipped with a special counter with open refrigerating vegetable show.

5. In hot weather it (be) recommended to drink “sour”.

Ex. 5. Translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to infinitive and gerund constructions:

1. A tourist had a difficulty in finding a hotel to live, because he wanted a modern well-furnished hotel but not an expensive one.

2. She is thinking of going on a whale-watching expedition and if she saves up enough money she will go to New Zealand.

3. The Grand Hotel Europe can organize and cater special events at the many palaces and other historic venues in St. Petersburg and the surrounding countryside.

4. It isn’t easy to drive so slowly, but we should obey the speed limit.