paladar
🇨🇺 Spanish slang from Cuba
What does “paladar” mean?
private family-run restaurant
Example
“Comimos en un paladar en el Vedado.”
We ate at a private restaurant in Vedado.
Good to know
Named after a Brazilian soap-opera restaurant.
Who you can say it to
Fine with anyone
💼 Work🌮 Food
The textbook way to say it: restaurante privado
Heard in a conversation
First shift at the paladar
Yanet ¿Qué bolá, Ernesto? ¿Listo para pinchar en el paladar?
What's up, Ernesto? Ready to work at the restaurant?
Ernesto Listo, asere. Me hace falta el baro, la verdad.
Ready, buddy. I really need the money, honestly.
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- jamafood, grub
- jinetero / jineterahustler who works the tourists
- la pinchajob, work
- por la izquierdaunder the table, off the books
- cuentapropistaself-employed (private business owner)
- sociolismogetting things done through friends (a pun on socialism)
- pasar trabajoto have a hard time, to struggle
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