How to Use luncheonette in a Sentence

luncheonette

noun
  • Hours before some games, the team would show up at the luncheonette.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 5 June 2022
  • Afterwards, a few of us walked to a small luncheonette where backups ate post-showtime.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • While Fuller’s may now be surrounded by breweries and art galleries, the old-school luncheonette holds strong.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • His parents ran a luncheonette and rooming house near factories whose immigrant workers came in to eat.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Stockholm plans to have a 645-foot stall that will be set up like a modern luncheonette, with bar stools, an open kitchen and vintage tiles.
    — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 28 June 2018
  • There's much to look forward to at the luncheonette, not least of which is actually sitting in the restaurant someday and staying awhile.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2020
  • Take a culinary road trip with the chef who opened a luncheonette in a historic train caboose on the Pacific Coast Highway.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
  • For a time, Louise ran an outfit of bookies from her room; Mae taught Burnett to filch toilet paper from a local luncheonette.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Ugly Duckling is a sweet luncheonette with memorable breakfast sandwiches.
    — Chelsea Conaboy, New York Times, 20 June 2024
  • Her father, Peter, and mother, Camilla, immigrants from Italy, owned a candy store and luncheonette.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2019
  • In an era when all the old standbys of diner culture are sliding beneath the tides of change, Middle Child is proof that the luncheonette is getting a creative burst of fresh life.
    — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 25 May 2018
  • Pure Quill is his latest take on dawn-to-dusk dining, a modern Southern luncheonette and grocer housed in a circa-1914 brick building.
    — Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Don't miss the thoughtful, delicious menu items the luncheonette calls noshes, like the house's sturdy salt-and-vinegar potato chips ($7) and dip — crème fraîche topped with lemony salsa verde and trout roe.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2020
  • The restaurant originally opened around 1970 down the street, replacing a luncheonette called Luxor.
    — Annie Correal, New York Times, 1 June 2017
  • This simple and straightforward luncheonette never tries to overcomplicate the diner experience, and that attitude carries through to the menu.
    — Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Also, a Woolworth’s luncheonette could not plausibly have claimed that serving a plate of hash browns was a form of expression protected by the First Amendment.
    — Roger Parloff, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
  • Start mornings at Candy Kitchen, an old-school luncheonette (which opened back in 1925), then stroll downtown to shop at upscale Sylvester & Co.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2025
  • The Freedom Marchers’ daytime plan was to have groups of whites and blacks sit down in segregated luncheonettes and restaurants on Main Street, thus integrating them.
    — Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • In addition to the luncheonette and pharmacy, there’s a full-service store stocking necessities from greeting cards to over-the-counter medications to beach accessories and sunscreen.
    — Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The luncheonette takes its name from one of Rouse’s favorite country acts, Pinto Bennett & the Famous Motel Cowboys.
    — Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The luncheonette will pop up regularly, probably a few times a month and extending for three or four days in a row, including weekdays and weekends depending on demand and Downtown event schedules.
    — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Within seconds this quicksilver star sets forth a complex character—a salesman who is quirky, charmingly goofy and maybe a little screwy, yet fiercely determined to sell a five-spindle milkshake mixer to a luncheonette owner.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2017
  • At Richy’s, a Hyde Park luncheonette, general store, and staple among mayoral candidates, the mood Monday swung from apathy to excitement.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Up next, Angela Pinkerton’s luncheonette located downstairs called Theorita.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Because this is a luncheonette, there are milkshakes, made with ice cream from Adirondack Creamery (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, pistachio) and overflowing from tall soda-fountain-style glasses.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
  • This luncheonette is a neighborhood institution and is conveniently located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan just under a mile from the finish line.
    — Kylee Van Horn and Allison Knott, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022
  • There may be no more emblematic culinary pivot of the last 18 months in Portland than Mama Đút, a vegan Vietnamese luncheonette whose origin story reads like a film script.
    — Jordan Michelman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Little Pete's will surely be missed, if for no other reason because neighborhoods like Rittenhouse Square have upscaled their way out of the affordable luncheonettes that were once essential neighborhood institutions.
    — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 24 May 2017
  • The duo opened an upscale pantry and provisions store Paracasa here in 2022, a luncheonette next door called Day June in 2023, and have now opened The Henson, a sixteen-room boutique hotel.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2024

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