Refurbished tavern feeding the Italian for a spell (8)
I believe the answer is:
interval
'a spell' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'refurbished tavern feeding the italian' is the wordplay.
'refurbished' indicates anagramming the letters.
'feeding' indicates putting letters inside.
'the italian' becomes 'il' (the in Italian).
'tavern' is an anagram of 'nterva'.
'nterva' placed into 'il' is 'INTERVAL'.
'for' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for interval that I've seen before include "Time to read programme notes, perhaps" , "Pause; pitch difference" , "Break, gap" , "Intervening time" , "Break in activity" .)