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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Washington Post food critic Elazar Sontag entertains your restaurant questions, rants and raves.—
Elazar Sontag,
Washington Post,
14 Jan. 2026
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Over the years, Grains and Taps has expanded from selling local and worldwide beer selections to offering their own brews, opened a second location at Pine Tree Plaza and added a restaurant.—
Janice Phelan,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2026
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Yelp’s Top 100 results are based on Yelp data, which include the number of reviews and the ratings that reviewers give restaurants, which include diners, fast-casual spots, food halls and more.—
Brock Keeling,
Daily News,
21 Jan. 2026
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That reality has also fueled a surge of products and services catering to people living alone, including restaurants catering to solo diners, a fast-growing pet market, and even AI pets.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Beanery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beanery. Accessed 24 Jan. 2026.
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