dinette
‘a nook or alcove located in or near a kitchen and used for informal meals, a small room or area within a larger room, used for eating meals, esp. one located next to or within the kitchen’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
dine ‘eat, have a meal’ + -ette < O.F. -et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < et < -et < Tamil iṭṭu