chili parlor

plural chili parlors

1. USA diner or restaurant featuring dishes like chili con carne, either as a house specialty or a selection of various different recipes.
2. CincinnatiA restaurant that specializes in Cincinnati chili and related dishes such as cheese coneys.

   The earliest chili parlor to pop up in downtown Cincinnati after Empress was owned by Macedonian immigrant Paul Taleff. … The Taleff family would be in the chili parlor restaurant business for more than thirty years.

   2013 April 16, Dann Woellert, The Authentic History of Cincinnati Chili, Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 144

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   This is a cafeteria, not a chili parlor. … The classic chili parlor: grungy, but not hard-core dirty. … The decor is more that of a sandwich shop than a chili parlor. … This restaurant suffers from an identity crisis — it is half urban chili parlor, half suburban chili parlor. Half new booths, half old tables and chairs. … A bustling, luncheonette-type chili parlor.

   1978 October, “Rating Cincinnati Chili”, in Cincinnati, pages 62–64