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

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For the best show, there’s a $175 chef’s tasting menu with 12 courses from China, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea and Japan; 817-766-6444, soycowboy.com. Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2025 Taken separately, many of the 11 (or so) dishes on the tasting menu are wonders. Ann Abel, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025 The cost for the tasting menu increased from Somni’s original iteration, as well. Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024 The best tasting menu experience went to Provenance. Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tasting menu 

Word History

Etymology

probably as translation of French menu dégustation

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tasting menu was in 1941

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“Tasting menu.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tasting%20menu. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

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