osteria means A small local restaurant in (usually rural) Italy. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian osteria. Doublet of hostry.
noun
- A small local restaurant in (usually rural) Italy.“And though the standard fare at the mountain osterias known as rifugios largely remains slabs of speck and strong local cheese, there are exceptions — most notably Col Alt, a rifugio above Corvara accessible only by ski lift, where meat dishes take the form of succulent venison or rabbit, and bottles of aged Barolo offer a noble complement to the soaring mountain vistas.”