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A bar that got ambitious and started charging you for it.
means A pub that serves restaurant-quality food alongside its pints, blurring the line between the local boozer and the dining room.
from A late-20th-century blend of 'gastronomy' (from Greek gastēr, stomach, plus nomos, rules — literally 'the laws of the stomach') and 'pub.' The word is usually traced to a specific pub in London in the early 1990s that started serving ambitious food, kicking off a trend the press needed a name for — so they smashed the two words together.
- origin
- coined in britain, early 1990s
- tell
- chalkboard menu, truffle fries, still has darts
- price jump
- fish and chips now means twenty dollars
- real test
- beer list as curated as the menu