as in restaurant
a public establishment where meals are served to paying customers for consumption on the premises
that jerkwater town doesn't boast a single decent beanery
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Recent Examples of beanery
Even the little Watercolor Cafe, which calls itself a (coffee) beanery by day and an art studio by night, saw a spike in business.
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Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2021
This was no spider-plants-and-Birkenstocks health-food beanery.
—Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2020
Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2021
This was no spider-plants-and-Birkenstocks health-food beanery.
—Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beanery
Noun
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Nevertheless, everyone can celebrate (or drown their sorrows) with some of the free and discounted offerings at these restaurants.—
Mike Snider,
AZCentral.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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Her mother, who washed dishes at a restaurant on weekends and cleaned hotel rooms six days a week, stopped going to work.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
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The lemon pizza and bone marrow tater tots wow diners, yet the regularly rotating menu centered around local harvests keeps guests guessing about what’s coming to their tables next.—
USA TODAY NETWORK,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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For decades, the restaurant functioned as a gathering place for musicians, neighborhood regulars and generations of diners who watched the surrounding corridor transform.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Beanery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beanery. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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