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eatery

[ee-tuh-ree] / ˈi tə ri /




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Nestled at the top of the museum with sweeping city views, the classic American eatery is now taking reservations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Fruit, juices, clothes, shoes, peanuts -- Lobe Sarr has turned her hand to various wares over the last 15 years, finally settling on a small street eatery in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

John Overdeck’s legal team has been collecting lunch orders each morning and having food delivered to the courthouse from Hobby’s Delicatessen, a legendary eatery near the courthouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Many customers came over to the table to pick up a shirt and share the many fond memories of the eatery with Wong-Young.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Across the desperate eatery, through the rain-greased windows and beyond the access road that bounded a strip of sloping littered grass, ran the Interstate.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Many eateries are offering incentives to get diners through the doors.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

People were swarming vendors from eateries all around Koreatown, dance circles formed around speakers blasting banda music, and “oohs” and “ahhs” at every missed shot were in perfect sync.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

And while business manager visa holders have a three-year grace period to meet the new conditions, some thriving businesses -- including many popular eateries in Okubo -- fear they won't manage.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Kuscher is building 10 studio apartments above one of his restaurants in the Wynwood neighborhood, a once-edgy area now packed with stylish stores and expensive eateries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

There was a heat unlike anything I’d ever felt, a heat from the great buildings, compounded by the millions of people jamming themselves into subway cars, into bars, into those same tiny eateries and cafes.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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