luncheonette
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The family later moved to the South Bronx, where they opened up a luncheonette called “Mambo”: a name chosen by young Eddie, who was enthralled by the Cuban dance hall rhythms.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
Demi Delvalle runs a luncheonette on Atlantic Avenue, and says the road is often heavily congested, particularly in summer or when one or more large entertainment events are taking place in Atlantic City.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2023
In street clothes, he drives a silver pickup truck with a yellow light on top through the port’s busy lanes, past a greasy-spoon luncheonette and beyond a gate by a former Singer sewing machine factory.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021
In fact, his mother and father ran a luncheonette and his father also worked as a milliner.
From Fox News • Jul. 5, 2021
I seemed to be haunted by cabbage fumes; the little luncheonette in which I found the telephone was reeking.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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