Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a restaurant.

1901		‘Hugh McHugh’ Down the Line 52: Muttheimer’s is one of those eateries where the waiters look wise because they can’t speak English.
1923		Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 5: Why was he lunching the girl at this God-forsaken eatery?
1944		E. Wilson 18 Mar. [synd. col.] Nicky Quattrociocchi, operator of the East Side eaterie, El Borracho.
1944		J. Archibald ‘Skip Tracer Bullets’ in Popular Detective June 🌐 Willie sat with Gertie Mudgett in a small eatery on Fifty-eighth.
1951		Green & Laurie Show Biz from Vaude to Video 38: These eateries soon became known as supper clubs.
1959		D. Niland Big Smoke 182: His hamburger shop that was a combination of two or three styles of eatery.
1977		L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 236: Bernie refuses to let him take the van out hunting for open eateries.
1989		T. Blacker Fixx 194: Endless evenings [...] at some nobby West End eatery.
1999		Guardian 11 Aug. 21: Moving in on the Pharmacy eaterie.
2000		Indep. Rev. 5 May 12: This swanky eatery on Sunset Boulevard.
2004		L. Redhead Peepshow [ebook] He raped her after the eatery’s star-studded opening night .
2005		L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 140: We had lunch at an upscale eatery.
2018		IOL News (Western Cape) 7 Nov. 🌐 Judging from this oh-so appealing listicle of eateries, South Africa’s capital has it all.