bantering
The taxi driver banteringly shared with us all of his favourite places to hang out in the city after dark.
Seeing our empty plates, our waiter said banteringly that we must not have been very hungry.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Informal talking & conversation
a problem shared is a problem halvedidiom
banter
bantering
bants
bloviate
bull session
buzz
catch
catch up with someone
chew the fatidiom
conversation
conversational
gambit
pass
persiflage
put the world to rightsidiom
speech
take/lead someone on/to one sideidiom
talk some sense into sbidiom
tête-à-tête