greasy spoons
Dingy fry joints
Greasy spoon is an informal and slightly pejorative term for a small and inexpensive restaurant that offers a limited menu of food that is not considered healthful.
The phrase may be used by people who have a particular fondness for such places to refer to them in a nostalgic or affectionate way.
- eateriesFood-serving establishments
- dinersCasual roadside eateries
- hole in the wallModest, unpretentious establishment
- mom and popInformal term for parents
- breakfastDay's first eating
affordable · booths · dumps · cafes · menus · joints · pancakes · lunches · counters · toast · stools · locals · bacon · roadside diners · hash browns · jukeboxes · burgers · milkshakes
- food industryrestaurants, eateries, fast food, cafeterias, catering
- Breakfast SpotsIHOP, Waffle House, pancake houses, diners, Perkins
- East EndEast End, Bow Bells, Tower Hamlets, Whitechapel, cockney
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