Beanery


a cheap, usually inferior, restaurant.
Historical Examples

I used to work in a hash foundry and a beanery, said Nat with a smile.
Jack Ranger’s Gun Club Clarence Young

“Our suits is up to the other beanery,” says I, and I was glad of it.
Gullible’s Travels, Etc. Ring W. Lardner

Straight to New York they hie, and lay their goods at the feet of the girl who serves them beans in a beanery.
The Four Million

O. Henry

Then, thinking you wouldnt be out for a 197 while, he went into a beanery for a bite and a cup of coffee.
The Gray Phantom’s Return Herman Landon

“Stop at a beanery,” yelled Bill to our driver, a little old man with round shoulders and a shiny coat.
Over the Seas for Uncle Sam Elaine Sterne

Say, I had a lithograph of Buddy and his beanery tip goin’ up against an argument like that.
Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford

noun (pl) -eries
(US, informal) a cheap restaurant
n.

“cheap restaurant,” 1884, American English, from bean (n.) + -ery.

noun

A restaurant or diner, esp a cheap one: a beanery in Hell’s Kitchen (1890s+)

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