serve up

phrasal verb

served up; serving up; serves up

: to give (food) to someone at a meal, in a restaurant, etc.

That little restaurant serves up some of the best Indian food in the city.

—sometimes used figuratively

The movie serves up a lot of laughs.

Examples of serve up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The restaurant also serves up a variety of traditional Mexican dishes including tacos, burritos, carne asada fries and quesadillas. —Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado january 2, Sacbee.com, 2 Jan. 2026

There are five restaurants serving up everything from Italian to Asian, grill-houses, and sushi. —Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026

The sky served up no shortage of spectacle in 2025 —from lunar liaisons, solar prominences and fleeting meteor showers, to aurora and nebula scenes that unfold on a scale almost too massive for the human mind to comprehend. —Anthony Wood, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2025

Pinterest correctly predicted everything would be cherry-coded in 2025, and in the months since multiple brands have served up lipsticks, nail polish and more that embodied the fruit's tart vibe. —Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025

Rhymes for serve up

• buttercup
• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup