: an informal usually French restaurant serving simple hearty food
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The glowing brasserie is shut tight as a jeweled music box with all of us inside it.—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025 There, McNally’s fascination with archetypal French brasseries and bistros took hold.—Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 5 May 2025 Health-conscious bites like Mediterranean quinoa salad, raw vegetables and hummus, citrus kale salad, and trail mix are also available for self-serve at the brasserie.—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025 Cote France This French bakery and brasserie opened in 1995 and has served Picard’s favorite sandwiches and pastries ever since.—Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for brasserie
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Etymology
French, literally, brewery, from Middle French brasser to brew, from Old French bracier, from Vulgar Latin *braciare, of Celtic origin; akin to Welsh brag malt
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