食事を取る (to have a meal)

The set collocation [meal]を取る ('to have/take a meal'), using 取る ('take') as an all-purpose meal verb — also 朝食を取る ('have breakfast'), 夕食を取る ('have dinner'). A formal alternative to 食べる; sounds more literary or considered, focusing on partaking of the meal as a whole rather than the act of eating.