spaghettery

English

Etymology

From spaghetti +‎ -ery.

Noun

spaghettery (plural spaghetteries)

1. A restaurant that sells spaghetti.
   • 1925, Henry Collins Brown, Valentine’s Manual of Old New York, page 81:

     In place of the rotisseries, spaghetteries, cafeterias, coffee potteries and what-nottaries that now cater to the inner man, the oyster house was the great middle-class refectory.

   • 1929 April 5, Charles F. Danver, “Pittsburghesque”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 2, number 212, page 10:

     We have met up with cats in Greek coffee houses, Negro cellar dives of the Hill, spaghetteries and the improvised cafes of Grant street’s “Little Hungary.”

   • 1957 January 5, The Sunday Sun, volume LXXI, number 78, Vancouver, B.C., page 21:

     An east-end spaghettery is still patching the scars from a New Year’s Eve riot that lasted two hours.

   • 1969 March 25, Krystal Pool, “Exploring historic Rome”, in The Windsor Star, volume 102, number 21, page 27:

     The best place for you single gals to head is the popular Da Meo Patacca restaurant. Located in the Piazza Dei Mercanti, this is one of the swingingest spaghetteries in all of Rome.

   • 1982 August 31, George N. Constable, “Joe’s ‘spa-gett’ house dream come true”, in News Journal, page 1-B:

     Anyway, I had this hankering for some spaghetti the other night and since I’ve visited just about all of the spaghetteries in town, and out of town, I thought I’d have a go at the newest one.

   • 1996, Trade Marks Journal, page 4:

     SERVICES: (1) Restaurants, spaghetteries

   • 2006, Ernest Hemingway, quotee, edited by Rena Sanderson, Hemingway’s Italy: New Perspectives, Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, page 53:

     “[O]n my return, which may be expired [sic] within 3 or 4 or 5 or six months, we will hie us to a spaghettery and try our respective linguistic abilities upon the chianti vender”

   • 2020, Andrzej Kowalczyk, Aleksandra Korpysz, “Restaurants and Bars in the Outer City”, in Andrzej Kowalczyk, Marta Derek, editors, Gastronomy and Urban Space: Changes and Challenges in Geographical Perspective (The Urban Book Series), Springer Nature Switzerland AG, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 185:

     At about the same time, pizzerias and spaghetteries began opening.