In France, a brasserie is a café doubling as a restaurant with a relaxed setting, which serves single dishes and other meals. From Wordnik.com. [Day 93: Brasserie Bonanza] Reference
By tradition, a brasserie is a modest restaurant, a place where you can enjoy a good, unpretentious meal at almost any time of day. From Wordnik.com. [Riverfront Times | Complete Issue] Reference
The word 'brasserie' is also French for brewery and, by extension, "the brewing business.". From Wordnik.com. [Day 93: Brasserie Bonanza] Reference
A brasserie, which is good for quick, simple meals; and a conservatory, which serves up a marvellous cream tea. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Heard on NPR this morning -- a report of the manifs in Aulnay-sous-Bois by a reporter who couldn't even say "brasserie" right. From Wordnik.com. [Expat Foul!] Reference
After 125 years in circulation, the term "brasserie" has lost much of its original meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Gridskipper] Reference
Bao Bei is a self-styled Chinese "brasserie," recently opened in old Chinatown's fashionable up-and-coming fringes. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
The brasserie is a family affair. From Wordnik.com. [Restaurant review: Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec] Reference
“What time on Monday did he get to the brasserie?”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Saturday Caller]
It was a brasserie, adjacent to a flight of stone steps. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Apparition]
“Did he ever see Vivien anywhere besides the brasserie?”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Loner]
“Nor a waiter in a large brasserie or a respectable café.”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Headless Corpse]
A brasserie on Sunday where no one has bathed, no one prayed. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Koan (Valentine's Day Massacre)] Reference
… On Avenue de Wagram, in a brasserie … What are you having to eat?. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret Bides His Time]
Before returning to Quai des Orfèvres, they stopped to eat at a brasserie. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Man on the Bench]
So why would chef David Meyers name his new Melrose Avenue brasserie "just OK"?. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Spot: Comme Ça in Los Angeles] Reference
And opposite was the brasserie where he enjoyed going for a dish of choucroute. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Man on the Bench]
He used to come to the brasserie most every evening, and he was always well-oiled. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Saturday Caller]
In the brasserie, where they stood at the bar, there were several other inspectors. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Revolver]
A few minutes later he was drinking a large beer in a brasserie on Avenue de Wagram. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret Bides His Time]
The windows of the brasserie were open, and a depleted orchestra was playing inside. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Burglar's Wife]
“In a brasserie on Avenue de Wagram, where I still have a few more calls to make.”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret Bides His Time]
“Somebody ring up the brasserie and tell them to send over some cheese sandwiches.”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Society]
The new brasserie menu is not so different from La Côte Basque, with dishes such as M. From Wordnik.com. [Dining with Moira Hodgson] Reference
The restaurant is somewhat of a cross between a traditional brasserie and an upscale eatery. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Won: Dining with Chef Todd English at Ãa Va Brasserie] Reference
All of them, or nearly all, were taking photographs of the Moulin Rouge, next door to the brasserie. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Loner]
My oldest friend and I went out for a leisurely lunch with her father at a nearby brasserie at noon. From Wordnik.com. [partygirl Diary Entry] Reference
He drank a glass of beer, now tepid, and asked somebody to get more sent up before the brasserie closed. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Burglar's Wife]
He went back to join Madame Maigret, who must have been uncomfortable sitting alone outside the brasserie. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Burglar's Wife]
He grasped a file folder and arranged on the table three preliminary architectural sketches of the brasserie. From Wordnik.com. [La C��te Basque 2003: Capote's Backdrop To Fold Its Tent] Reference
The brasserie prides itself on modern British cooking with a little extra flair, like duck breast and choucroute. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Life] Reference
I always loved his brasserie, Centrale, where James Beard award winning chef Cedric Maupillier helms the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? In Los Angeles and Beyond] Reference
He went out, and made for Place Dauphine, knowing that at the last minute he would stop by the brasserie for a drink. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Reluctant Witness]
Dale was not sure, but he did not think that it was the same smile that she had showed Jean-Pee-wee in the Alsatian brasserie. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
Had he not asked for an envelope in the brasserie where he had last been seen, immediately after the phone call to his friends?. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Dead Man]
For example, it was not merely by chance that he finally went into an Alsatian brasserie, where he sat at a table near the window. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Reluctant Witness]
In their place comes a Belle Epoque brasserie with new black leather banquettes and waiters in bistro aprons instead of black tie. From Wordnik.com. [Dining with Moira Hodgson] Reference
But the decor is comfortably French, using banquettes and mirrors to create an updated version of the bustling two-story brasserie. From Wordnik.com. [Bye-Bye, Brasseries] Reference
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