What is "eating house"

Eating \Eat"ing\, n.

1. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.

2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. [Colloq.]

   Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises. [1913 Webster] ||

n. a building where people go to eat [syn: restaurant, eating place]