Meaning & use
brasserie restaurant
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Meanings
nouncountable
A casual French-style restaurant serving simple meals and drinks, often with late hours and a relaxed atmosphere.
Grammar: Countable: say 'a brasserie restaurant' or 'two brasserie restaurants'.
Patterns
- eat at a brasserie restaurant
- a brasserie restaurant serves something
We found a brasserie restaurant near the station that stayed open until midnight.
The brasserie restaurant serves steak frites and onion soup all day.
A brasserie restaurant is less formal than a Michelin-starred dining room.
nouncountablerare
A brewery or beer-making place, especially in French-speaking regions.
Grammar: This sense is historical or regional; in modern English, 'brasserie' alone usually means the restaurant.
Patterns
- a brasserie produces beer
The old brasserie in Alsace still brews beer using traditional methods.
He wrote about visiting a brasserie where workers made lager.
Word forms
| plural | brasserie restaurants |
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Common combinations
- a lively brasserie restaurant
- They chose a lively brasserie restaurant for the birthday dinner.
- a traditional brasserie restaurant
- The guidebook recommended a traditional brasserie restaurant in the old town.
- book a table at a brasserie restaurant
- We booked a table at a brasserie restaurant for Friday evening.
- a brasserie-style menu
- The hotel offers a brasserie-style menu with classics like croque monsieur.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
- brasserie noun
- The shorter, more common form for the same kind of restaurant.
Commonly confused: brasserie restaurant or brassiere?
brasserie restaurant vs brassiere
A brassiere is a piece of underwear; brasserie is a restaurant or brewery. They sound similar but are completely different.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'brasserie restaurant' correctly?
Choose one answer.
A brasserie restaurant is a place to eat, so 'had lunch at' fits. The lingerie option confuses it with 'brassiere', and the other options do not match the meaning of a restaurant.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “brasserie restaurant”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.