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

Examples of tasting menu in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Last November, the tasting menu side meant white tablecloths and an open kitchen. Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2024 For nearly two years, Kim was the chef and co-owner of Kinn in Koreatown, a 20-seat tasting menu restaurant that took Korean food in the opposite direction of nostalgia. Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024 The eight-course tasting menu dinner will celebrate both chefs’ innovative culinary styles and their distince approaches to Mexican cuisine. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2024 Coeur chef Jordan Smith doesn't typically reveal what's on the tasting menu ($89 per person) but said it will be themed. Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2024 Best Restaurants Substance The food around the Eiffel Tower tends to be overpriced and underwhelming — definitively not the case with one-Michelin-star Substance, which is helmed by 29-year-old chef Matthias Marc and offers a 65-euro tasting menu at lunch. Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024 Live music will be at the spots, with several tables designated for order served on real plates, drinks in glassware, candles, floral arrangements and a couple of prix fixe tasting menus featuring its limited-time Korean-style items. The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024 Tony’s Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco is now offering a pizza tasting menu, including seven pizzas, a smattering of appetizers, and dessert, Eater SF reported on Thursday. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2024 The food around the Eiffel Tower tends to be overpriced and underwhelming — definitively not the case with one-Michelin-star Substance, which is helmed by 29-year-old chef Matthias Marc and offers a 65-euro tasting menu at lunch. Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024

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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 27 Apr. 2024.

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