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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eatery
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Furthermore, the eatery is no longer incorporated, he said.
▪ If you do want a change from the Papillon restaurants, a host of first-class eateries are nearby.
▪ Mimi Sheraton, for example, had to don various disguises so she would not be recognized while critiquing elegant eateries.
▪ Now the gluttonous diner has a wide array of eateries from which to choose.
▪ Sure, we had called the Altamonte Springs eatery for directions.
▪ The eatery was Summit Station, in Gaithersburg.
▪ The street is dotted with pricey eateries, art galleries, boutiques and hair salons.
▪ Yes, Picasso-themed eateries from Venice to Guadalajara.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eatery

"restaurant," 1901; see eat + -ery.

Wiktionary
eatery

n. (context North American informal English) a restaurant or café, etc.

Usage examples of "eatery".

Although the eatery was crowded, Cunningham spotted Deadhead sitting by himself in an otherwise deserted corner.

The Tap Inn was mostly eatery and drinkery, with five empty stalls that barely merited the title of stable, but there was an overhead loft, and another copper gained me the privilege of paying three coppers to sleep there and three more to stable Gairloch.

Known as the Naos sharptooth, the fish spawned only in the coldest months, was shipped offworld, flash-frozen, and sold at exorbitant prices in eateries from Mon Calamari to Corellia.

Place around the time that the eatery went up in flames, taking its transvestite owner with it.

Letty was still fuming silently when she realized Joel had come to a halt beside a tiny eatery selling walkaway food through a window that opened directly onto the sidewalk.

The wealthy continued to frequent their fine eateries, consuming expensive foods and rare wines.

Before long, the major chains became fixtures in most American cities, offering stiff competition to existing restaurants and driving many established eateries from business.

The beautiful, tree-lined street is known as Restaurant Row because both sides are lined with trendy eateries that cater to the Broadway theater crowd.

Gnawer lair led across vacant rubble-strewn lots, down streets lined with storefront churches, overpriced, grocery and liquor stores, cheap eateries offering fast food soaked with grease, vacant buildings with smashed windows and cryptic, elaborate graffiti sprayed in layers across their walls.

Woolworth dime stores were early innovators in this business, opening counters in most of their stores by 1910 and redefining them as an unique type of eatery.

German restaurants were among the earliest of the successful ethnic eateries.

As evening approached, they stopped at his favorite Riverwalk eatery, the Zuni Grill.

There's a super little eatery in Brrr called the North Pole Caf‚, where they serve the best zupa grzybowa and nerki duszone I've ever tasted.

Upper floors were made into tattoo dens, beauty parlors, massage parlors, secondary restaurants, and apartments roomed above fresh-fish and produce stands, eateries, and dingy but interesting shops.

Patton had taken over the handful of eateries in town and incorporated them into his commissary department.