But the tables were plentiful before dinner.
The buffet dinner is plentiful and mostly good.
And there are boletes (mushrooms) as big as dinner plates, so plentiful that my day pack is quickly full.
Last year, at an academic dinner with a plentiful buffet, Smith pulled out crackers from her pocket and nibbled while colleagues feasted around her; she was sticking to the $2-a-day assignment in fellowship with her students.
He often hosted friends and relatives, especially his son, for activities such as hunting, fishing, dinner, poker, and plentiful liquor.
Dramas of fractured families have become the Duane Reade drugstore of the New York theater, so plentiful that another story of squabbling over the dinner table cannot expect to offer much in the way of jolting surprises.
When Ellie joined me on Mondays With Marlo, she said that people tend to overeat at night, so it's better to eat a more plentiful breakfast and lunch, and limit yourself at dinner and beyond.
Breakfasts will have to be early and massive, dinners gargantuan, beer stocks and bike storage plentiful.
Of course, what everyone looks for at Edinburgh, alongside the long, light nights and the plentiful whisky – be they agents, promoters, producers or arts lovers looking for dinner-party bragging rights – is the next big thing.
The food, by the way, remained plentiful and amazingly fresh all week, with seafood offered the first three nights and a grand finale captain's dinner of prime rib, shrimp and crème brûlée.
