restaurants

NOUN

business establishment serving food and drink

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bar cafeteria coffee shop diner dining room inn joint outlet saloon

STRONG

canteen chophouse dive drive-in eatery grill hideaway lunchroom pizzeria

WEAK

café doughtnut shop eating house eating place fast-food place greasy spoon hamburger stand hashery hotdog stand luncheonette night club soda fountain watering hole

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restaurants

Developers make a living on Apple’s App Store; drivers and restaurants rely on Uber.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

For years, restaurants have been encouraged to become frictionless, scalable, customizable and infinitely replicable.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

He moved out of a hotel into a new home earlier this week and has ventured into the city to sample a handful of restaurants - but only to celebrate wins.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

We go to restaurants and cafes, a tailor’s, a talk show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

There were restaurants, advertised as cafés, and opera houses and polo grounds.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann