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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]
A la carte pay television. A la carte pay television (from the French à la carte, "from the menu"), also referred to as pick-and-pay, [1] is a pricing model for pay television services in which customers subscribe to individual television channels. For subscription distribution services, a la carte pricing contrasts with the prevailing model ...
lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.
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 ...
Tasting menu. A tasting menu is a collection of several dishes in small portions, served by a restaurant as a single meal. [1] The French name for a tasting menu is menu dégustation. [1] Some restaurants and chefs specialize in tasting menus, while in other cases, it is a special or a menu option. Tasting menus may be offered to provide a ...
A la Carte (Kenny Burrell album) À la carte (EP), a 2002 EP by Fujifabric. Alacarte, a GNOME menu editor. "A La Cart", an episode of the American crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. A-la-carte, a music service selling individual songs. A la carte pay television, a pricing model where cable and satellite television customers subscribe ...
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 ...
Cafeteria Catholic, also called à la carte, is an informal term used to describe a follower of Catholicism who dissents from certain official doctrinal or moral teachings of the Catholic Church. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Polling indicates that many Catholics dissent from the institutional hierarchy on at least one issue.