greasy spoon
Down-home hash house
A greasy spoon is a small, cheap restaurant or diner serving simple fried food—eggs, bacon, burgers, hash browns.
The name evokes the film of grease that coats everything from the griddle to the silverware.
The term is mildly disparaging but often affectionate: We stopped at a greasy spoon for breakfast off the highway.
- dinerCasual American eatery
- luncheonetteSmall informal eatery
- eateryCasual dining establishment
- beaneryInexpensive casual eatery
- restaurantPlace serving meals
inexpensive · snack bar · noshery · menu · hole-in-the-wall · fry cook · hash slinger · line cook · counter · comfort food · casual · stool · breakfast · all day breakfast · chili · blue plate special · daily special · waitress
- eateriesrestaurant, diner, bistro, cafeteria, pizzeria
- dinersdiner, diner booth, counter stool, counter seating, booth
- British Eateriespub, chippy, chip shop, bistro, carvery
- working-classblue-collar, working-class, diner, laundromat, corner store
- truckingsemi, 18-wheeler, trucks, truckers, big rig
- British foodfish and chips, full English, bangers and mash, Sunday roast, shepherd's pie
grease, greasy, lubricant, greased, greasing, greases, lubrication, degrease, degreaser