brasserie
Americannoun
noun
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a bar in which drinks and often food are served
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a small and usually cheap restaurant
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Etymology
Origin of brasserie
1860–65; < French: literally, brewery; Middle French, equivalent to brass ( er ) to brew (< Gallo-Latin *braciāre, derivative of *brac- malt < Gaulish; compare Welsh brag, MIr mraich, braich malt) + -erie -ery
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In 2020, the actress and CEO of the lifestyle brand Goop started to plan an all-day brasserie in Brentwood, Calif., the wealthy Los Angeles enclave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Brilhante Restaurant - Brilhante has the air of a French brasserie with the service of a Portuguese restaurant, making it a superb choice in my book.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2024
The first embraces the tiny world of the church, the brasserie and the village square.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023
Le Petit Paris, a French brasserie downtown, says that its 4% surcharge is added to all checks “to help cover increased costs and minimum wage increases for our dedicated staff.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
Here the torn shreds of a canopy proclaim a brasserie.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Now, however, those opulent emblems are taking up real estate in more casual-dining rooms, from brasseries in Miami to steakhouses in Boston.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
At Au Père Tranquille or the 24-hour Au Pied de Cochon, you'll find bubbling bowls of the stuff served at all hours — a holdover from when these brasseries catered to the forts des Halles.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2022
Across the street from La Coupole, and, with the two others, the third point in a triangle of brasseries the same crowd frequented.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022
There’s no restaurateur better at channeling time-worn French bistros and brasseries than Keith McNally.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2019
He is mute in the brasseries where they eat their lunches, mute in the shops where he gazes at beautiful belts, ties, paper, pens; mute on the rainy afternoon they spend together at the d’Orsay.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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