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Start bland description of restaurant experience (8)

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initiate

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'start' is the definition.
(initiating is a kind of starting)

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(Other definitions for initiate that I've seen before include "Kick start" , "Cause (action) to begin" , "starter" , "Start - trigger" , "having special knowledge" .)

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