Does English have a specific word for a hole between the kitchen and the living room that is used to get food directly to the dining table?
German has the nice Durchreiche, which approximately translates to hand-through. I am ideally looking for a nice translation of that word.
It is also called a serving hatch.
An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items.
The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.
from Wiktionary
I usually hear it called a kitchen pass-through.
In restaurants, I've heard that area is referred to as the pass and that is what we call it in our house.
I've known it to be called a breakfast-bar.
A similar feature is a dumb-waiter, which is used to move crockery and food between different levels especially in hotels.
In French, it is known as a passe-plat, which is elegant and simple. It can also be translated simply as hatch, which might be better than serving hatch as any sentence employing it is likely to involve a serving context which would make it redundant.
passe-plat is an interesting option.
Not meaning to observe the obvious, but "service window" would be appropriate.
