: an informal usually French restaurant serving simple hearty food
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The Restaurants One of the property’s commemorative gifts to its guests is Elliott Aster, a sophisticated brasserie that opened in May 2025.—Demarco Williams, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025 Chanel resumed staging fashion shows at the Grand Palais last fall after a four-year break, and recently held a dinner at the venue’s new restaurant, Le Grand Café, a soaring brasserie designed by Joseph Dirand with a terrace that looks across at the Petit Palais.—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 19 June 2025 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 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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