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Qué (quién) es greasy spoon - definición

SMALL, CHEAP RESTAURANT OR DINER
Greasy cafe
  • A typical British budget cafe in [[Tufnell Park]], London
  • A counter in a greasy spoon in [[Brooklyn]]

greasy spoon         
(greasy spoons)
A greasy spoon is a small, cheap, unattractive cafe that serves mostly fried food. (INFORMAL)
N-COUNT
greasy spoon         
¦ noun informal a shabby cafe serving cheap fried meals.
greasy spoon         
English cafe that serves an all-day breakfast, the greasier the better.
A good greasy spoon usually consists of two eggs, two sausages, two bacon, baked beans, black pudding, chips and a cuppa or three.
Ramon's, a fantastic greasy spoon in Cardiff, Wales, adds to this with pink walls and photgraphs of kittens in wine glasses. This contrasts nicely with the sweaty-arsed builders who form its constituency.
Impressively, even the tea at Ramon's is greasy.
I felt like death when I woke up this morning, but after going down to the greasy spoon with my housemates, I felt a lot better. Well, after I'd thrown the greasy spoon back up, actually.

Wikipedia

Greasy spoon

A greasy spoon is a small, cheap restaurant – either an American diner or coffee shop, or a British or Irish cafe – typically specializing in fried foods. The term greasy spoon has been used in the United States since at least the 1920s and is used throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term greasy spoon originated in the United States and is now used in various English-speaking countries.

The earliest appearance of the term in print (MacMillan's Magazine, 1906), refers to events of an earlier time: a restaurant in Paris was visited daily by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1874. "...the Cremerie in the Rue Delambre, - an eating-house much frequented by artists, and familiarly known as The Greasy Spoon..."

Nicknaming cheap fried food restaurants after an unwashed spoon dates back at least to 1848: "The Gabbione [in Rome]... has withal an appearance so murky and so very far removed from cleanliness, that the Germans have bestowed upon it the apellation of the 'Dirty Spoon'."

Ejemplos de uso de greasy spoon
1. This week I glanced at a young couple leaving a greasy spoon near us.
2. You can‘t beat a "greasy spoon" for value, taste, good company and price.
3. The Middle Eastern greasy spoon was bombed in January but spared of fatalities.
4. It‘s a far cry from the traditional greasy–spoon offering on the roads‘. Indeed it would be.
5. Drivers are to set off on August 16 from a «greasy spoon» cafe in London and to arrive in Athens two weeks later after crossing mainland Europe.