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brasserie

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,850 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: brasseries

A brasserie is an informal restaurant serving simple food all day. A Paris brasserie, lunch at the brasserie, a brasserie menu.

The difference from a bistro is scale and hours: a brasserie is larger and serves through the afternoon, which is the point of it. The name means brewery, since the first ones brewed their own beer.

Brasserie Vagenende · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of brasserie

  1. 1nounbrasserieAn informal restaurant serving simple food all day.C1

    “We had a late lunch of steak and chips at a busy brasserie near the station.”

brasserie is a restaurant.

Where it comes from

French brasserie means a brewery, from brasser, to brew.

  1. French

    brasserie

  2. English, today

    brasserie

Built from

  • brasser · French — to brew

French brasserie, from brasser (“to brew”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Restaurant & Cafe

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brasserie in the wild

  • The word brasserie is French for "brewery" and, by extension, "the brewing business".

    Brasserie

  • Although most brasseries still serve a large selection of beers, most of them offer a wider choice of beverages such as wines and liquors.

    Brasserie

  • Brasserie Les Halles was a French-brasserie-style restaurant originally located on Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York City.

    Brasserie Les Halles

  • In September 2012, the brasserie was awarded a Michelin star.

    Sébastien Masi

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.