estaminet

[ es-ta-mee-ne ]

/ ɛs ta miˈnɛ /

a bistro or small café.

Origin of estaminet

First recorded in 1805–15

If the woman of the estaminet was right, even now those woods might conceal a German scout.

Wounded and a Prisoner of War |Malcolm V. (Malcolm Vivian) Hay
But I have no doubt it would have been just as popular if it had called itself a café or even an estaminet.

A Padre in France |George A. Birmingham
The fact that there is not an estaminet within five kilometres nullifies its value as a military objective.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 11, 1919 |Various
We had dinner at an estaminet—quite a good dinner, but a mad female served us.

Letters from France |Isaac Alexander Mack

Here and there a messenger might be sent back to an estaminet and return to the war with comforts within a couple of hours.

The Bonadventure |Edmund Blunden

estaminet

/ French (ɛstaminɛ) /

a small café, bar, or bistro, esp a shabby one

C19: from French, perhaps from Walloon dialect staminet manger