noodlery

English

Etymology

From noodle +‎ -ery.

Noun

noodlery (plural noodleries)

1. A restaurant that specializes in noodle dishes.
   • 1964 February 17, Jay and Sumi Gluck, “Personally Oriented: The Tokaido III—Kamakura”, in The Japan Times, 68th year, number 23,379, page 8, column 4:

     The long approach to Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine has budget noodleries and regular Japanese meals.

   • 1968, Don Briggs, Inside Amazing Tokyo: A Confidential Guide to the Greatest, Tokyo, San Francisco, Calif.: Don Briggs Productions, page 70:

     In the eight-block Ginza area you can wet your whistle at 1,150 bars and cabarets, or play rice hockey at nearly 150 western restaurants, 80 sushi shops, 75 Chinese eateries, 36 sukiyaki houses, 34 tempura spots, 30 noodleries, 20 yakitori kitchens, 12 eel grills, and about 100 all-purpose beaneries.

   • 1976, Donald R. Kelley, Kenneth R. Stunkel, Richard R. Wescott, The Economic Superpowers and the Environment: The United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan, San Francisco, Calif.: W. H. Freeman and Company, →ISBN, page 249:

     In spite of inflation, energy shortages, economic contraction, and all the rest of it, trains were jammed to capacity, shops and stores thronged with shoppers, and hotels booked up in advance, especially in scenic spots, where room-rates are most expensive, and hordes of people in restaurants (even noodleries) ate as though at their last meal.

   • 2001 March 30, Ashok Chandwani, “Thailande a sure track to spicy bliss”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page D 12:

     Eager to make amends and fed up with the cheap noodleries, Chinese restaurants and pricey, trendoid Thai places that all claim to serve good food from that enchanted land but don’t, I returned to this old haunt with a favourite adventureress.

   • 2009, Mary Perry, Edward Garner, Adonis & Bignose in China: Teaching, Travels and Tea, Durban: Just Done Productions Publishing, →ISBN, page 277:

     Mary, correctly assuming shopping was not pencilled in on my agenda, kindly left me at a quick service noodlery, and uttering perhaps the most spoken and certainly greatest lie, ‘Won’t be five minutes’, shot off into the glister and temptation of a hundred or more shops, all in line, and open.