Meanings
plural gastropubs
- UKA public house that serves high-quality food.
For many years, UK food had a terrible reputation. Then, in the 1990s, gastropubs brought new flavours, energy and ideas. When and why did it all start to go downhill again?
2025 August 5, Steve Rose, “‘A yorkshire pudding like a dishcloth’: how did British pub food get so grim?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN1 more example
Indeed, one depressing thing about gastropubs is the lack of imagination in the sector; the way, as concepts, they invariably conform to a formulaic kind of low-key, small-g urban gentrification.
2008 July 3, Tony Naylor, “What makes a great gastropub?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*gres-
- Ancient Greekγρᾰ́ω (grắō)
- Ancient Greekγᾰστήρ (găstḗr)
- Englishgastro-
- Englishpub
- Englishgastropub
From gastro- + pub. UK early 1990s.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish gastropub
- gastropubpub that serves high-quality food
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