Greasy spoon

[poli]

Un greasy spoon es un restaurante donde preparen desayunos y almuerzos muy rápidadmente con precio bajo y calidad no tan alta tampoco.
¿Existe una palabra como greasy spoon in español ?

[Tomisimo]

I'll go out on a limb and suggest restaurantucho. I've never heard the word, but it sounds logical to me and I'm sure it would be understood. I'm sure a native speaker will either confirm or denounce this, (and hopefully tell us a more common term).

[pjt33]

My dictionary gives figón, freiduría barata.

[irmamar]

I don't think there's a word for greasy spoon. Usually you know the places where you can have your breakfast or your lunch cheaper. You say that that place "tiene un buen precio / es barato".

[poli]

Gracias todos.
A mi figón suena correcto pero nunca vi la palabra antes.

Usé la palabra fonda, pero creo que su significado cambia entre paises.

[irmamar]

I've never heard that word before, sure in Spain nobody would understand you. "Fonda" is used in some places, but you can sleep in a fonda, too.

Maybe I haven't heard "figón" before because it's not possible to eat here cheap but with low quality Well, yes, it's possible, a pity in my country . But if you ask a Spanish about a place with low category, surely he'll tell you "Don't go there!" Here it is common to say "buena relación calidad - precio". There's where you must go

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Restaurantucho is fine, restaurante de M, de poca monta. restaurante cutre. Lots of posibilities.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

"Fonda" in Mexico is a small restaurant, normally not that good and usually cheap. They're open during the day, and it's not allowed to sleep in there.

[poli]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

"Fonda" in Mexico is a small restaurant, normally not that good and usually cheap. They're open during the day, and nobody allowed to sleep in there. except the mice and roaches

That's exactly what a greasy spoon is.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

A clean one has clean cockroaches and clean mice.

[ookami]

Maybe it can be "restaurante de paso", but it's more use for the restaurants that are for travelers, along the rutes and all that.
¿comida rápida?
P.S.: ¿ustedes usan "restaurante"? yo creo que la he usado pocas veces, casi siempre "restorán".

[irmamar]

Always "restaurante". It is accepted

[chileno]

Originally Posted by irmamar

Always "restaurante". It is accepted

También en Chile.

@Angélica:

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

"Restorán" y "restaurante" son igualmente utilizados por aquí... hay quienes dicen "restaurant" también.

@Hernán:

[CrOtALiTo]

I have another definition like to this word fast food or comedero.

[sosia]

I have read figón sometimes, but never used it myself.
other options "chiringito" (int he beach) or "puesto de comida", meany only a person with a table and a little cookingplace

Saludos

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Restaurante cutre

[CrOtALiTo]

Here in my country when you are traveling and you see any place in the highway where you can get food, then it's normally named Baradero.

[brute]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

A clean one has clean cockroaches and clean mice.

but a clean one would not have greasy spoons either!

[tacuba]

A little off-topic, but in a book I'm currently reading, the author uses the word "antro" to mean what we would call a "dive" in English.