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a bistro that got ambitious and put beer in the name.

means a casual french restaurant, often attached to a brewery, serving hearty classics all day long.

from french for brewery, from brasser meaning to brew; alsatian brewers in the 1800s started serving food alongside their beer and the name stuck to the food long after the beer became optional.

for instance

brasserie lippparis, 1880, hemingway wrote there between drinks

bofingerparis, 1864, oldest brasserie still serving choucroute

balthazarnew york, 1997, brought the format to soho

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