tasting menu

noun

1. a fixed-price restaurant meal or menu consisting of small portions of numerous dishes:

   We ordered the 6-course tasting menu for $125.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tasting menu¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

The to-go box tasting menu remains — now limited to once a week.

From Eater

Calls to the restaurant are returned by the hands-on chef, who will ask if you want to order his tasting menu.

From Washington Post

You’ll be encouraged to order four courses, if not the chef’s tasting menu.

From Washington Post

Pre-pandemic, many of us planned vacations around food, booking reservations months in advance for 20-course tasting menus and mapping out food crawls that involved eating multiple meals in one afternoon or evening.

From Washington Post

Agern offered alcohol-free drink pairings with its tasting menus.

From Popular-Science

By the time the seven-course, $90 tasting menu began, I looked at my wife and said, “This place has a chance.”

From The Daily Beast

The dining room is very small and cozy, and the tasting menu reflects the Greek heritage of the chef, Johnny Monis.

From The Daily Beast