The word "plates" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a thin, flat dish from which food is served or eaten. For example, "We set the table with four plates, five forks, and four knives."
"I am very aware that some have questioned whether the number plates were in some way a prank.
The happy hour aperitivo runs from 5.30pm to 7.30pm, and although drinks seem expensive at €4, you have to see the mega buffet that is served at the same time - huge plates of smoked ham, salami, salads and either a steaming risotto or pasta.
The chef sets up a stall in the middle of the Campo and the genial Carlo and Davide serve up heaped plates of the dish of the day, which could be a delicious fritto misto, wild mushroom risotto or tasty goulash, priced at €7-10 with a glass of wine included.
A crowd gathers at the bar at midday when the chef sends out plates of the dish of the day that are quickly snapped up, not surprising when the cost is €6.
1. PRAGUE Snowflakes blowing across the Charles Bridge, music recitals in candelit churches, underground bars, firelit restaurants serving huge plates of comfort food and fine red wines... How could your lover fail to be won over?
Norway and Iceland maintain commercial whaling programmes in spite of the 1986 International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium, but Japan insists its programme is scientific, while admitting that the resulting meat ends up on plates back at home.
On Thursday she will play Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky, a woman who two years ago was washing plates and working towards a career in hotel management.
ID6335449 Go to eat huge plates of meat at this buzzing, family parrilla.
Plates held olives, boquerones – tiddler fish marinated in vinegar – and slices of acorn-fattened wine-red ham marbled with buttery fat.
Dust the pudding with icing sugar and serve on warm plates with softly whipped cream.
She called her images her "cast of characters", and she deployed them on polymer printing plates and in paper chains of sheets collaged with selected cut-out figures, her "paper dolls", that littered the studio and stretched into enormous scrolls.
