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2. Table d'hôte - Wikipedia

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   Etymology. Table d'hôte is a French loan phrase that literally means "the host's table". The term is used to denote a table set aside for residents of a guesthouse [fr], who presumably sit at the same table as their host. The meaning shifted to include any meal featuring a set menu at a fixed price. The use in English is documented as early as ...

3. À la carte - Wikipedia

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   Meals. In restaurants, à la carte (/ ɑːləˈkɑːrt /; French: [a la kaʁt]; lit. 'at the card') [1] is the practice of ordering individual dishes from a menu in a restaurant, as opposed to table d'hôte, where a set menu is offered. [2] It is an early 19th century loan from French meaning "according to the menu". [3][4]

4. Menu - Wikipedia

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   Menu. In a restaurant, the menu is a list of food and beverages offered to customers and the prices. A menu may be à la carte – which presents a list of options from which customers choose – or table d'hôte, in which case a pre-established sequence of courses is offered. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to the diners, put on ...

5. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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   lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu". In America "à la Carte Menu" can be found, an oxymoron and a pleonasm. à propos regarding/concerning (the correct French syntax is à propos de) affaire de cœur lit. a love affair aide-de-camp

6. Full-course dinner - Wikipedia

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   Basics. A multicourse meal or full-course dinner is a meal with multiple courses, typically served in the evening or late afternoon. Each course is planned with a particular size and genre that befits its place in the sequence, with broad variations based on locale and custom. Miss Manners offers the following sequence for a 14-course meal: [2 ...

7. Service à la russe - Wikipedia

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   Service à la russe. The historical form of service à la russe (French: [sɛʁvis a la ʁys]; 'service in the Russian style') is a manner of dining with courses brought to the table sequentially, and the food portioned on individual plates by the waiter (typically from a sideboard in the dining room). It contrasts with the older service à la ...