brasserie

[ bras-uh-ree; French brasuh-ree ]

noun

, plural bras·se·ries [bras-, uh, -, reez, b, r, a, s, uh, -, ree].

1. an unpretentious restaurant, tavern, or the like, that serves drinks, especially beer, and simple or hearty food.

brasserie

/ ˈbræsərɪ /

noun

1. a bar in which drinks and often food are served
2. a small and usually cheap restaurant

Word History and Origins

Origin of brasserie¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of brasserie¹

C19: from French, from brasser to stir, brew

Example Sentences

There’s the Hive, which specializes in honey recipes and has its own bees just outside the window, and a brasserie where an enormous Damien Hirst sculpture of a crystal Pegasus flies overhead.

From Washington Post

For example, restaurants should turn the music down to discourage customers from talking loudly, says Sam Harrison, who owns a brasserie called Sam’s Riverside in London.

From MIT Technology Review

Lastly, we taste a smooth Volcelest Triple from Brasserie de la Vallée de Chevreuse, about 40 minutes outside Île-de-France.

From The Daily Beast

Many of them take a page out of the brasserie history books and maintain small, local operations.

From The Daily Beast

That's what law professor Paul Campos told me, sitting at a table in Brasserie Beck after a Cato panel on law schools.

From The Daily Beast

The cellar was immediately under a ruined brasserie, and in the grounds of the latter was a solitary German grave.

From Project Gutenberg

On either side of the boulevard were shops and cafs, mostly cafs, with every now and then a brasserie, or beer hall.

From Project Gutenberg

The brasserie at the corner of Rue Maubeuge stands on the site of the ancient cemetery des Porcherons.

From Project Gutenberg

You—a Levantine dancing girl—a common painted thing of the public footlights—a creature of brasserie and cabaret!

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But the slop and swish of the rain did not prevent the brasserie of The Fallen Angels from being filled with noisy drinkers.

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