The word "dining" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the activity of eating a meal, particularly in a formal and/or special setting. For example: We enjoyed a wonderful evening of dining at the country club.
Then there's the local craft beer on show at Craft Pride, and the laid back cool of dining rooms such as Tyson Cole's award-winning Japanese-inspired Uchi.
Subjects in the timetable range from dining and singing sessions and sushi-making performance art classes to the Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics, plus explorations of time and space, forensics and Freddie Mercury.
Where to eat All beach-hut chic and artfully mismatched furniture, Strandpaviljoen SB Noord is where Amsterdam's fashionable folk come to get a bit of sand between their toes while dining on Italian-inspired dishes (strandpaviljoennoord.nl).nl
O'Chee, whom it is reported had a "long and difficult" relationship with the Murdoch press, now claims that Lachlan Murdoch, who was dining in separately in the same restaurant, was party to at least some of the discussions.
The sleeping bothy contains three cabins, each sleeping two in bunkbeds, and the dining bothy has cooking facilities, including a Rayburn.
There's also a cosy kitchen and dining room decorated with whalebones found on the shore.
A little before midnight, the well-wined Ukip leader stood on a chair in a small Italian eatery in the Kent town to bellow out a rendition of New York, New York to the delight of his dining companions.
He also photographed anonymous interiors like the dining hall of Slutsk technical food college, winner of the best public canteen in the Republic of Belarus, and even an ornately wallpapered hallway that won the best staircase in Minsk award.
But the view from the beachside dining platform is worth the price.
Greece's outspoken finance minister and his wife came under attack by anarchists while dining in a central Athens restaurant.
I couldn't decipher it exactly, but it seemed to say "mais non!" (A woman dining alone, where do I put her? Also, that's one cover rather than two that I get for that table for two).
