as in restaurant
a public establishment where meals are served to paying customers for consumption on the premises
we'll just grab a quick hamburger at the local diner
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OpenTable's Top 100 list of the best restaurants in America features six Massachusetts spots selected by diners as the best of the best.
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Mike Deehan, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
Variants of the sandwich are available at diners and sandwich shops throughout the year, seasonality be damned: piles of turkey, cranberry sauce, sage-scented stuffing, and thick gravy sold under winking-at-the-calendar names like, say, the Gobbler, the Pilgrim Special, the Tryptophan Tornado.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
In these scenes, Schrader films with a visual romanticism and a loving attachment to the era’s physical stylings: the sleek lines of Leo’s mid-sixties Corvair, the swooping modernism of a new airport, the gleam of a diner counter, the confident solidity of the refrigerators and telephones.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
Guatemalan/American diner Don Julio Cafe opened its doors on Lincoln Avenue in May.
—Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 26 Nov. 2024
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Mike Deehan, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
Variants of the sandwich are available at diners and sandwich shops throughout the year, seasonality be damned: piles of turkey, cranberry sauce, sage-scented stuffing, and thick gravy sold under winking-at-the-calendar names like, say, the Gobbler, the Pilgrim Special, the Tryptophan Tornado.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
In these scenes, Schrader films with a visual romanticism and a loving attachment to the era’s physical stylings: the sleek lines of Leo’s mid-sixties Corvair, the swooping modernism of a new airport, the gleam of a diner counter, the confident solidity of the refrigerators and telephones.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
Guatemalan/American diner Don Julio Cafe opened its doors on Lincoln Avenue in May.
—Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Diner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diner. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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