The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TEAROOM
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result TEAROOM
- Moving to a more select café?
- Players entertaining Aussie native in café
- One offers refreshments — drop round twice maybe at first (7
- Eatery‘s charge low, needing to rise
- Café leaves anchor back
- Little Aussie beast interrupting side in cafe
- Low returns on rent for drinking establishment
- Upset Romeo at cafe
- Jumper inside light-lunch eatery
- . Eatery undergoes a mooter change
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The straight part
We know that "drinking establishment" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case drinking establishment = tearoom.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does TEAROOM mean?
TEAROOM noun- A café which serves tea, usually with light food.
- A public lavatory, particularly as a meeting place for homosexual men.
- A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc.; a break room.