The term "counter bar" is not considered to be part of standard written English.
It could be used informally in some contexts. For example, you might say "We met up at the counter bar for a late night snack".
Not least because watching from the counter bar as they're cooked to order is way sexier than anything going on up the road in Soho.
Mr. Joly, 32, who owns a company that sells skin care products to plastic surgeons, said he came to the store every weekend as much for the respite from the smog and clog of Los Angeles as for the low-calorie, fruity sparkling tonics that sell for $4 to $5 and are served hot or cold at a small counter bar.
Before World War II, Tokyo was filled with these pocket-sized dives — called nomiya (counter bars) — with space for just six or seven stools.
The counter bars around the hearth or by the pool can be used by students on their own or who want to gather in more intimate clusters.
The students had intentionally breached color lines at a lunch counter barred from African Americans.
Some of the best cuisine I've ever tasted was in nondescript counter bars that had been there forever.
A prescription-counter bar, aspirin-shaped stools and staff in medical gowns by Prada: the sense of eating in a chemist's was, said Mr Hirst, a reflection of a powerful belief system by which people put their faith in drugs.
They both love stone, and they wanted it on counters, bar and kitchen floor.
The 12,016 square feet of living space includes a marble-counter bar in the family room, a sweeping central staircase, a step-down living room, seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
But all felt the same, with bachelor-pad layouts that included a kitchen counter with bar stools.
NetCash intends to spend $12.8 million over the next year installing Internet terminals in 2,500 padarias -- shops that are a combination of bakery, minimarket, lunch counter and bar that appear, at least one every block, on most Sao Paulo streets.
