tavern
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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
The start of the event was moved from a tavern to a pavilion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
He wears his usual tavern apron and cap, but the expression he wears is troubled.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Hospitality veteran Clemens Keller insists that Vienna's storied "heuriger" winemakers' taverns -- which face a hangover-inducing brew of real estate speculation, spiralling costs and climate change -- cannot rely on their illustrious past.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
His Uncle Frank telling jokes from behind the bar in one of these taverns first piqued Dreesen’s interest in comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
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
The sidewalks, shops, taverns, churches, and theaters once again filled with people and buzzed with talk and prayer and gossip.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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