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

But the draw here is the five course pre-fixe, a slight departure from typical tasting menus. —Jessi Roti, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 June 2026

Culinary Trips To Finland Up For Grabs Visit Finland is highlighting the country’s first national tasting menu with this giveaway for 16 lucky winners. —Ramsey Qubein, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

Led by John Shields and Karen Urie Shields, Smyth is known for an ambitious tasting menu that draws heavily from close relationships with farmers and producers. —Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2026

The pizza joint tied with Sei, Tony’s in San Francisco, has long been ambitious as one of the American pioneers of the rising art of the pizza tasting menu. —Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 28 May 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