tavern

The chapter on the Stamp Act starts in a tavern on the island of St. Kitts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Holding a glass jug, Jorge Velazco Rocha crouches before a contraption of wooden barrels stacked in cascading fashion at his roadside tavern along the scrubby flanks of the Volcán de Colima.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

She said of tertulias, the literary debates that took over an evening in a home or tavern, “they certainly ate, but above all, they drank and debated passionately.”

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

The series’ musical landscape also includes a myriad of folk songs, such as the drunken tavern tune “Alice With Three Fingers” and the childish rhyming couplets of “The Hammer and the Anvil.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

On a school day it would have been different; I would have just told the teacher I had to go home and help at the tavern, and gone up to Warrups’.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

By definition, occupying the gray area between a bar and a restaurant, taverns aren’t fancy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

I’d just moved to Barcelona and, like any newly anointed local, had been eating pan con tomate – crunchy, tomato-slicked toast – in cafés and taverns all over town.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025

Soon, Paine’s pamphlet was everywhere — whispered by soldiers in Valley Forge tents, shouted in Philadelphia taverns, quoted in sermons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2025

Libberton's Wynd was also famed for housing one of the city's best-known taverns, which was called The Mermaid before it became Johnnie Dowie's Tavern.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

He sought out the cheapest taverns and turned the stories of the men over in his mind as he scratched at lice.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead