tasting menu
noun
plural tasting menus
: a selection of dishes, drinks, etc. offered together as a complete meal or tasting experience
All of Nobu's offerings can be ordered a la carte, but I recommend the multicourse tasting menu, which offered many of chef Matsuhisa's signature dishes served family-style.—
Kenneth Shapiro
Kenneth ShapiroIt will be hard to resist the Middle East Feast, a tasting menu of the restaurant's popular dishes …—Jessica Colley Clarke
Jessica Colley ClarkeChef Joke Linzinmeir … has created a "drinking chocolate" tasting menu using chocolates from around the world.—Andrea Strong
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Tempura Shun provides a teppanyaki lunch tasting menu and a tempura lunch tasting menu, both priced at $139 to $178 per person.
—Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
But over time, in some cities, New York among them, the totemic simplicity of a man eating a steak fell out of fashion, replaced by more heterogeneous modes of conspicuous connoisseurship: nouvelle cuisine, the auteur-chef tasting menu, the thousand-dollar omakase, the members-only supper club.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
The tasting menu of about seven courses will be available for about 200 covers, split between an early evening and late evening service, for each of the ten nights.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Dave Beran, chef and owner of Seline in Santa Monica, puts his cerebral, 18-course tasting menu on par with attending a three-hour play with mature themes.
—Maggie Hennessy, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2025
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Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
But over time, in some cities, New York among them, the totemic simplicity of a man eating a steak fell out of fashion, replaced by more heterogeneous modes of conspicuous connoisseurship: nouvelle cuisine, the auteur-chef tasting menu, the thousand-dollar omakase, the members-only supper club.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
The tasting menu of about seven courses will be available for about 200 covers, split between an early evening and late evening service, for each of the ten nights.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Dave Beran, chef and owner of Seline in Santa Monica, puts his cerebral, 18-course tasting menu on par with attending a three-hour play with mature themes.
—Maggie Hennessy, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Tasting menu.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tasting%20menu. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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