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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Diners can choose between booking a seven-course tasting menu or a three-course menu.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
What dinners offer At each restaurant event, chefs experiment, crafting exclusive tasting menus amid a communal dining setting.
—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
Other luxuries abound: the five-star spa is infused with 700 pounds of healing crystals and on the 60th floor, an elegant dining room serves a seasonal tasting menu prepared by Chef Jean-Georges.
—Ariel Okin, Vogue, 2 July 2025
Here are 13 places for sushi in Austin. Craft Omakase
Craft Omakase offers a 22-course seasonal tasting menu focused on Japanese fine dining.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
What dinners offer At each restaurant event, chefs experiment, crafting exclusive tasting menus amid a communal dining setting.
—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
Other luxuries abound: the five-star spa is infused with 700 pounds of healing crystals and on the 60th floor, an elegant dining room serves a seasonal tasting menu prepared by Chef Jean-Georges.
—Ariel Okin, Vogue, 2 July 2025
Here are 13 places for sushi in Austin. Craft Omakase
Craft Omakase offers a 22-course seasonal tasting menu focused on Japanese fine dining.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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“Tasting menu.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tasting%20menu. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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