The phrase "agreeable lunch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lunch that is pleasant or enjoyable, often in a social context.
Example: "We had an agreeable lunch at the new café downtown, where the atmosphere was delightful and the food was delicious."
Alternatives: "pleasant lunch" or "enjoyable lunch".
There are enough well-prepared items to make this an agreeable and moderately priced choice for lunch or dinner.
But the country's Brian Greenwoods don't invest the time and effort in lobbying, funding political parties or turning up at agreeable lunches.
They are perfect for elevenses or, served with a little salad or even just a couple of raw carrots on the side, a very agreeable light lunch.
That aside, you can have an agreeable leisurely lunch or, in the late afternoon, take part in a Dixie happy hour in the splendid old bar.
Wine buffs might tell you that 2011 is not Rioja's "finest" year, but this one is certainly agreeable enough, at least mid-afternoon after a good lunch.
"Agreeable people are much more likely to pay for your lunch," said Sandra Matz, a professor at Columbia Business School and lead author of a new study out today in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that sheds light on why some people are better with their money than others.
The clientele is an agreeable mix of businessmen, denizens of the art world, ladies who lunch and tourists.
The Appeal: "A very agreeable and sophisticated answer to that question 'Where shall we have lunch?', Milliways is a place where one can meet and dine with a fascinating cross-section of the entire population of space and time".
The attempts to keep up conscientious conversation; the mediocre food; and then the speech by the toastmistress, and then the president, which is surprisingly agreeable; and finally the departure and the promises with former classmates to lunch with them, etc. and the merciful escape and grateful feeling that it is all over.
Really, the barbecue is just another agreeable weapon in the thinking cook's arsenal, more appropriate for a family lunch or friends over for supper than for feeding the whole village/street/cricket team.
