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In France, Flanders, and the
In France, Flanders, and the Francophone
French became an international language in the Middle Ages, when the power of the Kingdom of France made it the second international language, alongside Latin. This status continued to grow into the 18th century, by which time French was the l ...
world, a brasserie () is a type of French restaurant with a relaxed setting, which serves single dishes and other meals. The word ''brasserie'' is also French
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for " brewery" and, by extension, "the brewing business". A brasserie can be expected to have professional service, printed menu
In a restaurant, the menu is a list of food and beverages offered to customers and the prices. A menu may be à la carte – which presents a list of options from which customers choose – or table d'hôte, in which case a pre-established seque ...
s, and, traditionally, white linen—unlike a bistro which may have none of these. Typically, a brasserie is open Wednesday to Sunday and serves the same menu all day. A classic example of a brasserie dish is steak frites.
Etymology
The term ''brasserie'' is French for " brewery", from Middle French ''brasser'' "to brew", from Old French ''bracier'', fromVulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal Register (sociolinguistics), registers of Latin spoken from the Crisis of the Roman Republic, Late Roman Republic onward. Through time, Vulgar Latin would evolve ...
''braciare'', of Celtic
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origin. Its first usage in English was in 1864.
The origin of the word probably stems from the fact that beer was brewed on the premises rather than brought in: thus an inn would brew its own beer as well as supply food and invariably accommodation too. In 1901 ''Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language'' defined "brasserie" as "in France, any beer-garden or saloon". In 2000 ''The New Penguin English Dictionary'' included this definition of "brasserie": "a small informal French-style restaurant".''The New Penguin English Dictionary'' ; consultant editor: Robert Allen. London: Penguin, 2000; p. 167
See also
* La Mère Catherine (a Parisian brasserie founded in 1793) * GastropubReferences
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