rum shop

American  

noun

Chiefly Caribbean.

1. a tavern or shop selling liquor.

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Example Sentences

In 1932, a handful of independent rum shop owners amalgamated into Antigua Distillery which today produces the multi-award winning English Harbour Rum with varieties aged up to 25 years.

From BBC

This 200-seat restaurant, owned by Peter Best, who has places in Brooklyn and Atlanta, and Malissa Browne, who has worked for his company, has three sections, including a speakeasy-style Rum Shop for late-night drinks.

From New York Times

Records show that the honour might actually belong to Brazil, but Barbados is the unrivalled champion of the rum shop scene in the Caribbean – they have been part of our landscape for more than 300 years.

From The Guardian

“Most Caribbean country villages look alike — unpainted one-room houses, dirt yards, a rum shop with six or eight bored adolescent males standing around outside, a bunkerlike cinder block schoolhouse in the middle of a bare field, a crumbling nineteenth-century cut-stone church,” he writes in his painterly way.

From Seattle Times

Pelicans & Parrots – “A traditional Caribbean Rum Shop style bar is tucked in the basement of this quirky Dalston treasure trove.”

From Forbes