Sentence examples for a modest establishment from inspiring English sources

It was a modest establishment, but it would change everything about their lives.

One of these was Aperitivo, a modest establishment on London's Beak Street that specialised in Italian tapas.

His mother lent him some money and, in 1903, he opened a modest establishment on the Rue Auber, behind the Opéra.

He gained recognition in the 1980s after opening a modest establishment in his family's farmhouse, El Racó de Can Fabes, which he gradually upgraded.

Boulanger operated a modest establishment; it was not until 1782 that La Grande Taverne de Londres, the first luxury restaurant, was founded in Paris.

She told me the parents of her husband, Neal, Sal and Antoinette D'Orio, had founded the pizzeria, a modest establishment that occupies a storefront attached to the family's two-story frame house, where the driveway once was; one of the dining rooms is actually inside the house.

Reed followed the suggestion of his editors by setting My Friend Smith (1882 83) in a different kind of school, a "modest establishment for the backward and troublesome".

In 1977 his restaurant gained its first Michelin star with Mr Loiseau as chef, in 1981 a second and in 1991 a third, putting him among the 20 or so top chefs in France.By then Mr Loiseau had become the owner of La Côte d'Or and set about an ambitious transformation of what had been a fairly modest establishment, adding hotel suites, a pool and private dining rooms, and expanding his kitchen.