brasserie
b ra suh ree
- n a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap
- We're not talking about a chi-chi burger like you might order at, say, Vert, Wolfgang Puck's fancy brasserie in Hollywood, where the lunchtime Prime Cheese Burger is topped with .
- The couple recently opened a brasserie on a quiet street a few steps away from the city center, and are doing brisk business.
- Old-timers still mourn the fate of the Coupole, a barnlike old brasserie that had served as home to Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett; it was acquired by a restaurant .