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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]
Menu. In a restaurant, the menu is a list of food and beverages offered to the customer. A menu may be à la carte – which presents a list of options from which customers choose, often with prices shown – 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 ...
short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1] à la carte 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
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 of bundling, in which ...
Unlike other cable networks, premium services are almost always subscribed to a la carte, meaning that one can, for example, subscribe to HBO without subscribing to Showtime (in Canada, there are slight modifications, as most providers include U.S. superstations – such as WAPA-TV – with their main premium package by default).
Grist reports that roughly 30 percent of the world's population considers insects a delicacy or dietary staple.
Garde manger. Ghost restaurant – a restaurant that operates exclusively via food delivery. Gueridon service. Happy hour. Kids' meal. Main course. Maître d'hôtel. Meat and three. Meat and two veg – a British dish consisting of meat served with two varieties of vegetables.
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. [3]