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

The pop-up, called Sheep, debuted on July 8 in the rooftop restaurant space at the hotel, offering a $95 per person four-course tasting menu focused on open-fire cooking. — The Know, Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2026

Order a tasting menu and Paternollo will select one of each for you. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026

This was a setup for making a coffee shop breakfast sandwich, not a seven-course tasting menu that cast Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern flavors through a personal lens. — John Kessler, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026

Back in May, Sora in Myers Park switched up its tasting menu to offer a la carte service, along with the choice to try an eight- to 10-course tasting menu or a four- to five-course one. — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 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