Tasting menus are a strange contradiction-filled curiosity in the culinary world. Though a relatively novel culinary standard that has become popular in little more than half a century, they have an ...

In 1981, Mimi Sheraton, the New York Times restaurant critic at the time, was fed up with tasting menus. Nouvelle cuisine was all the rage, and this new trend, tasting menus (aka the “menu de ...

When I heard that Aldine was changing its menu format, I thought maybe that meant the menu would no longer feature stupid colons in between ingredients (like sorry but,”sugar snap peas : pickled chili ...

When I spoke with chef Brandon Jew last year for my article about the proliferation of tasting menus in the Bay Area, he had a simple explanation for why he replaced Mister Jiu’s à la carte format ...