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
Andrea StrongExamples of tasting menu in a Sentence
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If a trip to Brooklyn is in your future, the food trends publication Chef’s Pencil recently rounded up the five most expensive tasting menus at the borough’s Michelin starred restaurants.
—Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2025
In Los Angeles, look to n/naka for extraordinary kaiseki-style tasting menus that combine California’s best ingredients with an innovative approach to Japanese cooking.
—Visit California, AFAR Media, 14 Mar. 2025
At another dinner, the star of a seven-course tasting menu was a small onion braised in black beer and served with béchamel.
—Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
Diners choose their meals in advance, and an à la carte menu competes with two six- and seven-course tasting menus.
—Amarachi Orie, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
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Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2025
In Los Angeles, look to n/naka for extraordinary kaiseki-style tasting menus that combine California’s best ingredients with an innovative approach to Japanese cooking.
—Visit California, AFAR Media, 14 Mar. 2025
At another dinner, the star of a seven-course tasting menu was a small onion braised in black beer and served with béchamel.
—Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
Diners choose their meals in advance, and an à la carte menu competes with two six- and seven-course tasting menus.
—Amarachi Orie, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tasting menu
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“Tasting menu.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tasting%20menu. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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