Noun | 1. | ![]() bistro - a small informal restaurant; serves wine brasserie - a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap brewpub - a combination brewery and restaurant; beer is brewed for consumption on the premises and served along with food building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" cafeteria - a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier canteen - restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat mobile canteen, canteen - a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen diner - a restaurant that resembles a dining car greasy spoon - a small restaurant specializing in short-order fried foods hash house - an inexpensive restaurant lunchroom - a restaurant (in a facility) where lunch can be purchased rotisserie - a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats chophouse, steakhouse - a restaurant that specializes in steaks tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom, teashop - a restaurant where tea and light meals are available restaurant chain - a chain of restaurants |