Steak à la carte, with no side dish or garnish; these must be requested separately.
The individual dishes to be ordered may include side dishes, or the side dishes may be offered separately, in which case, they are also considered à la carte.
The earliest examples of à la carte are from 1816 for the adjectival use ("à la carte meal", for example) and from 1821 for the adverbial use ("meals were served à la carte").[3] These pre-date the use of the word menu, which came into English in the 1830s.[5][6][3]
See also
Omakase, Japanese expression for letting the chef decide
^. oxforddictionaries.com. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
^Richard Bailey, Eating Words, Michigan Today, 13 May 2008. 25 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^"Menu", The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Houghton Mifflin
Bibliography
Baraban, R.S.; Durocher, J.F. (2010). Successful Restaurant Design. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 17–18. ISBN978-0-470-25075-4.
Committee on Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine (2007). Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools. National Academies Press. page 83.
Mosimann, Anton (1983). Cuisine à la carte. Macmillan Publishers Limited. 304 pages.
External links
Look up à la carte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
January 15, 2023
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