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

Chef Nathan Rich’s incredible farm-to-table tasting menu in the main dining room is included in the all-inclusive rate. —Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2024

For over a dozen years, n/naka chef Niki Nakayama has been revered among L.A. restaurant mavens and the Hollywood crowd alike as a master of the kaiseki style of dining — the elaborate Japanese interpretation of a seasonal tasting menu. —Pat Saperstein, Variety, 22 May 2024

From Hawaii to Helsinki, from Mumbai to Marrakesh, Rosenthal has sampled street food, tasting menus, and bizarre foodstuffs from around the globe—and from some of the world’s top chefs. —Bydave Smith, Fortune, 22 May 2024

So the modern French restaurant, famous for its luxurious tasting menus, is launching a lunch menu two days a week as a less terrifying entry point for the curious. —Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024

Of course, as part of the practice of kaiseki, there’s a desire by the chef to use the tasting menu as an expression of time and place in nature both with the food and visually. —Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 May 2024

Chef Luiz Filipe Souza heads up the on-site Brazilian restaurant, Y, which offers a la carte eats as well as a nine-course tasting menu. —Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2024

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

Word History

Etymology

probably as translation of French menu dégustation

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined above