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 Sáez recommends the eight-course tasting menu and a wine pairing to fully embrace this culinary narrative. Taryn White, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 The Michelin-starred Ristorante Il Pellicano at the legendary Hotel Il Pellicano serves gourmet tasting menus in a spectacular setting. Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 3 Oct. 2024 Freya, a tasting menu restaurant in the Milwaukee Junction neighborhood, landed on both the Detroit Free Press/Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Best New Restaurants list in 2022 and the New York Times list of 50 Favorite Restaurants of 2022. Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2024 Chef Matthew Lightner said the tasting menu restaurant may continue in some form but did not specify. Axios Portland, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tasting menu 

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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 31 Oct. 2024.

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