Reading How did restaurants start? 1. Read the text and put the missing sentences (A-E) in the correct spaces (1-5). A. The chief business of these cookshops was the sale of cooked meat which customers carried away with them. B. This is the first time this word was used. C. They often became 'dining clubs', and these existed in the fifteen century. D. No matter how good mother's cooking is, we like to go to a restaurant sometimes. E. Sometimes they served meals, too. (1) It's not just because there's different food to eat, but we also enjoy going out. Long before there were restaurants, there were taverns where people gathered to talk, have some- thing to drink and to eat. In London, there was another kind of place that was also the forerunner of the restaurant. This was the cookshop. (2) . But sometimes they also served meals on the premises and was somewhat like a restaurant. There were cookshops in London as long ago as the twelfth century! The first place where a meal was provided every day at a fixed hour was the tavern in England. (3). By the middle of the sixteenth century, many townspeople of all classes had the habit of dining out on taverns. Many of them became meeting places of the leading people of the day. About 1650 coffeehouses also appeared in England. They served coffee, tea, and chocolate, which were all new drinks at that time. (4) In 1765 a man named Boulanger opened a place in Paris which served meals and light refreshments, and he called his place a 'restaurant'. (5) It was great success and many other places like it soon opened. In a short time, all over France, there were similar eating places called 'restaurants'. But the word 'restaurant' was not used in England until the end of the nineteenth century.