brasserie

noun

bras·​se·​rie ˌbras-ˈrē How to pronounce brasserie (audio)
ˌbra-sə-
: an informal usually French restaurant serving simple hearty food

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With its lease up at the end of April, the brand has decided to close the French brasserie at 9700 Collins Ave. Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025 Also a 2025 James Beard Award semifinalist (for Best New Restaurant), French brasserie Bûcheron features an intimate dining room where guests split rich dishes of root vegetables, wagyu beef, and steelhead trout. AFAR Media, 11 Mar. 2025 Each day begins at La Perle, a brasserie that fuses Mediterranean and Asian cuisines. Rachel Dube, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025 Perhaps the apex of McNally’s success has been Balthazar, a SoHo brasserie in a cavernous space that once contained a leather warehouse. Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for brasserie

Word History

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

First Known Use

1825, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of brasserie was in 1825

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“Brasserie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brasserie. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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