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
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Dinner unfolds as a six-course tasting menu ($125 per person; wine pairings optional) served Friday and Saturday evenings by reservation only, with ingredients foraged onsite or sourced from nearby farms.
—Taryn Shorr-McKee, Midwest Living, 8 May 2026
For the opening of Oyatte in early May, Lee was expecting his eight-course tasting menu to feature seasonal produce like turnips, radishes and pea tendrils, featured in a radish salad with rhubarb and poached green radishes.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 7 May 2026
The experience begins, of course, with Patterson’s 10-course tasting menu, which puts his modern California cuisine in the limelight once more.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 7 May 2026
Much of that has been concentrated in El Poblado, long a trendsetting neighborhood, whose dining scene is now made up of tasting menus, fermentation labs, and cocktail dens.
—Allie Lazar, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026
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Taryn Shorr-McKee, Midwest Living, 8 May 2026
For the opening of Oyatte in early May, Lee was expecting his eight-course tasting menu to feature seasonal produce like turnips, radishes and pea tendrils, featured in a radish salad with rhubarb and poached green radishes.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 7 May 2026
The experience begins, of course, with Patterson’s 10-course tasting menu, which puts his modern California cuisine in the limelight once more.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 7 May 2026
Much of that has been concentrated in El Poblado, long a trendsetting neighborhood, whose dining scene is now made up of tasting menus, fermentation labs, and cocktail dens.
—Allie Lazar, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026
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“Tasting menu.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tasting%20menu. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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