Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Eating \Eat"ing\, n.
   1. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or
      corroding.

   2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good
      eating. [Colloq.]

   {Eating house}, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to
      be eaten on the premises.

Source : WordNet®

eating house
     n : a building where people go to eat [syn: {restaurant}, {eating
         place}]