"plain restaurant" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
This phrase can be used to refer to a restaurant that is simple, unadorned, or lacking in special features. For example: "Rather than go to a fancy restaurant, we decided to have dinner at a plain restaurant near our hotel."
This narrow, plain restaurant used to be Agora, where the Mediterranean menu had a pronounced Turkish influence.
9. Kang Suh ** [Rating: two stars] (212) 564-6845 1250 Broadway, at 32nd Street Manhattan $ All major cards Waiters at this large, plain restaurant walk around with boxes of live coals, ready to bring you fire.
This bright, plain restaurant in Chinatown looks like many other bright, plain restaurants in the neighborhood, except that it offers delicious Shanghai specialties like soup dumplings, smoked fish and eel with chives.
7. Kang Suh ** [2 stars] (212) 564-6845 1250 Broadway, at 32nd Street Manhattan $ All major cards Waiters at this large, plain restaurant walk around with boxes of live coals, ready to bring you fire.
Rather than turn away customers, the owners opened a second, equally plain restaurant a block west on Centre Street, practically under the grim facade of the Manhattan Detention Complex, offering much the same menu of delectable Vietnamese specialties amid a sea of other dishes that seem more Chinese.
Then continue the global feast with dinner at Kam Yin (Warmoesstraat 6; 31-20-625-3115), which serves Surinamese-Chinese cuisine; the plain restaurant's dizzying menu includes everything from curries to chop suey.
Several days earlier, Ms. Rosenthal and I are shouting at each other over the din of Ms. Leary's book party at the Ditch Plains restaurant on the Upper West Side, where the admirers and friends include Katie Holmes, Michael J. Fox and his wife, Tracy Pollan.
But recently, I visited Golden Gate, in Riverdale, the Bronx, a plain, bright restaurant that could be a time capsule.
Like its older sibling on the Upper West Side, this plain, bright restaurant serves delicious, meticulously prepared dishes that make Vietnamese cooking so refreshing.
The menu at this plain, bright restaurant is a trove of mid-20th-century Chinese-American cooking like chop suey, egg foo yong and subgum chicken.
Saigon Grill + (212) 875-9072 2381 Broadway, at 87th Street Manhattan $ All major cards This plain, bright restaurant specializes in takeout, but it is also a pleasant place to eat.
