Sentence examples for before the restaurant from inspiring English sources

We had arrived 30 minutes before the restaurant was set to open.

It will be a long time, they said, before the restaurant will reopen.

(We were there before the restaurant had a liquor license and had brought our own wine).

Just before the restaurant closed at 4 a.m., Mr. Khan prepared to head out into the predawn cold.

" Two weeks before the restaurant is due to open, Koffmann invites me to his kitchen for a cookery lesson.

(His wife supported the family while he traveled, before the restaurant opened and he started taking a modest salary).

Minutes before, the upscale restaurant had been brimming with life.

BEFORE the Bowery bums and urban blight, before the restaurant-equipment dealers flooded the sidewalks, before lighting stores illuminated storefront windows and before the area became known as a haven for punk rock, one of New York's oldest thoroughfares fell into the cross hairs of real estate speculators.

Sometimes even before the restaurants have opened.

And because he often arrives at the airport for a flight before the restaurants open, he packs food.

Before the restaurants began shuttling food across the river, they had to get permission from a battery of Polish and German officials.