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single word requests - What is the name of a small unluxurious restaurant?


Is there a name for this kind of restaurant? Searching Google, I can't find any synonym of restaurant. I've tried to search for images of unluxurious restaurant, small restaurant or mundane restaurant, with no satisfactory result. The restaurant I'm looking for is small, not so clean and definitely not a place that high class people go to eat.


It can be a house:


cheap restaurant in a building


Or lie on a side of the street:


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Answer



"Hole in the wall"?


Here's the definition from Oxford Dictionaries:



hole in the wall 1. chiefly North American A small dingy place, especially a bar or restaurant



Another definition from English Daily:



Definition A small, simple place, particularly a shop or restaurant


Example Let's go to the Italian restaurant on Smith Street. It's just a hole in the wall, but the food is excellent.


Etymology This phrase has been used since the early 1800s. A 'hole' is an empty space, and a 'wall' is part of a building. So a 'hole in the wall' is a simple, undecorated space in a building.



Note that today it is almost always used about food establishments; less so about shops.


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