Hello there, hope you are doing well.
I just did a quick research about the first part of your question and then I found out that this word is considered as formal.
Here it is the definition of that word in Oxford Learners' Dictionary:
patronize something (formal): to be a regular customer of a shop/store, restaurant, etc.
The club is patronized by students and locals alike.
As you saw, this word is "formal".
*Some of the options which can be used instead of that formal verb are:
*frequent, haunt, attend, visit; subscribe to, join, hang out at (informal)*