chili parlor
(United States) A diner or restaurant featuring dishes like chili con carne, either as a house specialty or a selection of various different recipes.
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(United States) A diner or restaurant featuring dishes like chili con carne, either as a house specialty or a selection of various different recipes.
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 c…
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(Cincinnati) A 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.
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