Starters from brasserie likely including nuts in pancake (5)
I believe the answer is:
blini
'pancake' is the definition.
(blini is a kind of pancake)
'starters from brasserie likely including nuts in' is the wordplay.
'starters from' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'brasserie likely including nuts in' is 'BLINI'.
(Other definitions for blini that I've seen before include "Straw hat" , "Russian pancake served with caviar and sour cream" , "Russian pancakes" , "Eastern European twenty four Ac" , "Small buckwheat pancake" .)