[General] I love this restaurant and will come back...

[Silverobama]

I ate in a restaurant tonight with my friend and I think the place is perfect, I said to my friend "I love this restaurant and will come back and eat here again".

Is the italic sentence natural?

 

[GoesStation]

Yes.

 

[emsr2d2]

I ate in/at a restaurant with a friend [STRIKE]tonight[/STRIKE] this evening [STRIKE]with my friend[/STRIKE] and I think the place is perfect. I said to my friend, "I love this restaurant and will come back and eat here again".

Is the italic sentence natural?

Yes, it is. Note my other changes above.

In BrE, we eat at a restaurant. I left "in" because I think it's the preferred option in other variants.
I changed "this evening" to "tonight" because, when we talk about something that happened earlier in the evening on the same day of speaking, it's more natural. "Tonight" covers the period from evening to the next morning.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Americans eat at restaurants, too.

 

[Silverobama]

Yes, it is. Note my other changes above.

In BrE, we eat at a restaurant. I left "in" because I think it's the preferred option in other variants.
I changed "this evening" to "tonight" because, when we talk about something that happened earlier in the evening on the same day of speaking, it's more natural. "Tonight" covers the period from evening to the next morning.

Hi emsr2d2. I have two questions.

1) I think my sentence will be better as "I love this restaurant and will come back to eat here again". Do you agree?
2) You said "I changed "this evening" to "tonight", but you deleted "tonight", did you mean "changed "this evening" with "tonight"? I think so.

Much appreciated!

 

[emsr2d2]

1. No, I don't think that's better. It's the same.
2. Apologies. Of course, I meant to say that I changed "tonight" to "this evening".