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
It will be hard to resist the Middle East Feast, a tasting menu of the restaurant's popular dishes …Jessica Colley Clarke
Chef Joke Linzinmeir … has created a "drinking chocolate" tasting menu using chocolates from around the world.Andrea Strong

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The restaurant offers a chef's tasting menu and a la carte options. Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025 For an adults-only dining experience, Leaf offers a daily changing farm-to-fork four-course tasting menu. Kaila Yu, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025 Expect everything from à la carte breakfast options to seven-course tasting menus. Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2025 The restaurant features a nine course tasting menu created by its chefs and winemakers. Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tasting menu

Word History

Etymology

probably as translation of French menu dégustation

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tasting menu was in 1941

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“Tasting menu.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tasting%20menu. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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