paladar
/paləˈdɑː/noun
In Cuba: a small, independent, family-run restaurant, situated in a private home.
- The restaurants have operated legally in Cuba since 1995, when the Cuban government passed a law allowing the sale of ‘light foods’ from households..
Origin
1990s; earliest use found in The Washington Post. FromCuban Spanish paladar, specifically sense of Spanish paladar palate, taste from an unattested suffixed variant of classical Latin palātum.