Cantina

This article is about the type of restaurant/bar. For the type of truck, see Food truck. For the location from Star Wars, see Mos Eisley.
Musketeers sitting outside a cantina, painted by Joaquín Agrasot, 1885–1890

A cantina is a type of bar common in Latin America and Spain. The word is similar in etymology to "canteen", and is derived from the Italian word for a cellar, winery, or vault.[1] In Italy, the word cantina refers to a room below the ground level where wine and other products such as salami are stored.[2]

As cantine it was used to refer to the shop of a sutler, an army camp follower.

  1. ^ cantina. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000 Archived May 4, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Salame di felino - Naso&Gola Archived May 10, 2006, at the Wayback Machine