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

The full five-course tasting menu is served from 5pm, from about $85. —Rick Jordan, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026

Clock Bar offers a full à la carte menu for guests who prefer to shape their own evening — no tasting menu required. —Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026

Upstairs features a pasta tasting menu, while the first floor is mainly bar seating, with a view of the greatest pasta show on earth. —Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Feb. 2026

There are two seatings each night, serving a chef’s choice tasting menu that begins with that ode to minuta but branches out to evoke familiar Cuban flavors. —Connie Ogle february 3, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2026

Word History

Etymology

probably as translation of French menu dégustation

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for tasting menu

• submenu
• venue