eatery; restaurant; place to eat
A casual, slightly old-fashioned term for a place where you can get a meal, often implying a simple, local establishment. Not used for high-end dining.
Is there a good place to eat around here?
The ramen at that eatery is superb.
Standard kanji spelling using 食べ (eat) and 処 (place).
Variant using 食 instead of 食べ; less common but still seen.
Mixed kanji-kana spelling; natural in casual writing.
Compound of 食べ (tabe, 'eating', the stem of 食べる) and 処 (tokoro/dokoro, 'place'). The reading どころ is a rendaku form of ところ.