: an informal usually French restaurant serving simple hearty food
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Café de Paris Monte-Carlo Guests have been traveling to this iconic brasserie in Monaco for 150 years and for good reason.—Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025 High-end hotels like the Ritz in Paris have joined corner brasseries in offering mocktails alongside cocktails on their restaurant menus.—Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2025 That’s why the two-level Red Katz has the allure of a Parisian brasserie, the flamboyance of a 1930s New York City speakeasy and a mouthwatering menu that beautifully blends their Asian roots and French epicureanism.—Lily Templeton, WWD, 27 Jan. 2025 Decor is a chic industrial aesthetic inspired by NYC brasseries and the atmosphere is buzzy.—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 3 Jan. 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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