reston.
/ˈrɛstəʊ/, U.S. /ˈrɛstoʊ/, Australian English /ˈrestoʊ/ colloquial (originally Australian).
= restaurant n.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant
eating-housec1440
feast house?c1475
victualling-house1541
cookshop1542
cookhouse1548
feasting house1563
treating-house1680
suttling-house1691
shop1695
chop shop1733
restaurateur1782
slap-bang shop1785
restorator1797
dinner house1803
restaurant1806
snack-house1820
grubbery1823
refreshment house1825
restauration1832
trattoria1832
slap-bang1836
ristorante1874
tavern-restaurant1880
foodery1892
eatery1901
taverna1914
chop-house1915
nosh1917
diner1924
noshery1952
ryotei1953
lokanta1954
Chinesery1956
relais routier1960
hotel1968
tratt1969
robata1975
fast foodery1979
Chinky1981
rodizio1981
taqueria1982
resto1988
paladar1994
1988 Herald (Melbourne) 6 Apr. (Taste section) 3 Ice water arrives within seconds of being seated at Pavilions, the new ‘resto’ at the Albert Park Hotel in Dundas Pl[ace].
1995 Toronto Life Jan. 90/2 It must have come in the night to the owners of Zaidy's: why keep calling their Louisiana resto after a Yiddish grandpop?
2003 C. Campion London Restaurants: Rough Guide (ed. 6) 233 This world of chic modern restos and chic modern restaurant designers.
2006 Guardian 23 June ii. 20/3 The most egregious foodie pretension, just beginning to creep into British usage, using the term ‘resto’ as shorthand for restaurant.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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