How to destroy a dwelling eatery (4-5)

I believe the answer is:

chop-house

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'how to destroy a' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'dwelling eatery' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'dwelling' could be 'house' (I've seen this before) and 'house' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'chop' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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