The Grammaring Guide to English Grammar with Exercises

The zero article with meals

Names of meals normally do not take an article:

Did you have

breakfast

this morning?

I'll have fruit for

lunch

.

Let's go out for

dinner

tonight.

But if there is an adjective before the name of the meal or a phrase or clause after it, an article is used:

The breakfast that they served

was fabulous.

I had

a quick lunch

at Wendy's.

That was

the most delicious dinner

I've had in a while.