refreshment-rooms

At long intervals were uncomfortable refreshment-rooms, made more uncomfortable by the scorn of Beauty towards Beast, the public (but to whom she never relented, as Beauty did in the story, towards the other Beast), and where sensitive stomachs were fed, with a contemptuous sharpness occasioning indigestion.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

Domestic worries, the hard-heartedness of creditors, the rudeness of the railway servants, the inconveniences of the passport system, the expensive and unwholesome food in the refreshment-rooms, the general rudeness and coarseness in social intercourse — all this, and a great deal more which would take too long to reckon up, affects me as much as any working man who is famous only in his alley.

The Wife 2004

The hotel refreshment-rooms were comfortable, and Mr. Fogg and Aouda, installing themselves at a table, were abundantly served on diminutive plates by negroes of darkest hue.

Around the World in 80 Days 2003

I hate seeing small boys at such moments stuffing themselves in refreshment-rooms.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 Various

Our friends and relatives, after looking at the Jewish Catacombs, had driven back to the hotel, and only began to feel anxious at tea time, as they knew the English refreshment-rooms were closed for the season, like everything else, and Isabel asserted with tears that if her mother was above ground she would not miss her tea.

A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sara Jeannette Duncan

But her fastidious ideas received a shock at the scene which met them before the refreshment-rooms.

Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

In 1871 the income of the society was $123,101, of which $69,000 were from admissions to the Gardens, $9507 from Garden sales and rent of refreshment-rooms, $3750 from the society's publications, and $39,415 from dues of fellows and annual subscribers.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

And indeed, in spite of the many different smells that are natural to a fishing-boat, Oswald began to notice a strong scent of railway refreshment-rooms.

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

No sooner was the news of the arrival of these great and notorious people bruited abroad through the magnificent saloons of Zoological House than Mrs. Bridgeman's guests began to flock around them from all the four quarters of the mansion, deserting even the neighbourhood of the guitars and the inviting seclusion of the various refreshment-rooms.

The Prophet of Berkeley Square Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

If you will walk up and down in front of the refreshment-rooms here, I'll find you more easily.

The Lunatic At Large 1905