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
Andrea StrongExamples of tasting menu in a Sentence
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Toku Unagi & Sushi (West LA) LA’s only Japanese unagi specialty restaurant offers an $88 five-course tasting menu featuring scallop mango, ikura chawanmushi with caviar, shrimp tempura and your choice of unagi preparations or omakase sushi for the main course.
—Kaila Yu, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Dinner is a choice of a four or seven-course tasting menu using fresh, local ingredients; ordering a la carte is also an option.
—Hannah Freedman, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2025
Maiden featured a $150, eight-course tasting menu with two seatings per night.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2025
During Wednesday’s ceremony in Sacramento, Michelin Guide California awarded Los Angeles its first-ever three-star restaurants: Somni, a Spanish tasting menu venue in West Hollywood, and Providence, a 20-year-old California seafood eatery in Hollywood.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 27 June 2025
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Kaila Yu, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Dinner is a choice of a four or seven-course tasting menu using fresh, local ingredients; ordering a la carte is also an option.
—Hannah Freedman, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2025
Maiden featured a $150, eight-course tasting menu with two seatings per night.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2025
During Wednesday’s ceremony in Sacramento, Michelin Guide California awarded Los Angeles its first-ever three-star restaurants: Somni, a Spanish tasting menu venue in West Hollywood, and Providence, a 20-year-old California seafood eatery in Hollywood.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 27 June 2025
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“Tasting menu.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tasting%20menu. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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