The phrase "a gracious dinner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a dinner that is elegant, kind, or generous in nature, often implying a warm and welcoming atmosphere.
Example: "The host prepared a gracious dinner, complete with exquisite dishes and thoughtful conversation."
Alternatives: "a generous dinner" or "an elegant dinner".
Although India, a novelist, and her husband, Theodor, a sculptor, live well — each has a separate studio, they send their daughters to private school and give gracious dinner parties — their finances are perilous, and India fears a reckoning that will require them to sacrifice comforts like their nanny and cleaning lady.
This year, New Yorkers who love eating al fresco will find more intimate settings on rooftops and upstairs decks, some featuring high-end multicourse dinners — a gracious alternative to sidewalk seating, and with better views.
On our visits, she not only extended a gracious welcome but also talked to customers throughout dinner, making sure everything was going smoothly.
I left only out of exhaustion, but invited Matt to my hotel, a gracious courtyard house called the Riad Zamane, for a dinner of the best chicken tagine ever.
In private, his friends said, George was a gracious and sensitive man who revealed a warmer side at small dinner parties, where he spoke of his love of science fiction and sometimes erupted in loud guffaws.
Nabi proved to be a gracious host to us, giving us watermelon and tea and then feting us with a big dinner of pilaw (rice and meat), heavy flat bread, yogurt, and Mountain Dew.
Nabi proved to be a gracious host to us, giving us watermelon and tea and then feting us with a big dinner of pilaw (rice and meat), heavy flat bread, yogurt and Mountain Dew.
On the one hand, this is a gracious tribute, especially from someone who had been (very publicly and entirely properly) savaged by the President at the White House Correspondents' dinner the night before.
