bukateria
n.— «From this restaurant of the people or bukateria (from the Hausa word, buka, for eating house) as we would say in Nigeria, simple and pleasing in its decor, everywhere you looked you saw the sea.» —by Molara Ogundipe A Sunday Afternoon With Ayi Kwei Armah Aug., 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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