in Soviet stolovayas ill-tempered women plopped the food on to Bakelite plates
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There was no incentive to remain in the stolovaya after eating.
The stolovayas of Russia tend to distinguish themselves from the norm by allotting themselves some bizarrely fanciful and exotic names such as "Stolovaya number 35".
For supper, we went to the railway workers' stolovaya.
The stolovaya was filling up with workmen, who had to deposit baskets of tools as well as many layers of outer garments.
They might have taken lunch at the local stolovaya but otherwise they cooked at home.