NOUN
- a menu having individual dishes listed with separate prices
ADVERB
-
by ordering items listed individually on a menu
we ate a la carte
ADJECTIVE
- (of a restaurant meal) having unlimited choices with a separate price for each item
How To Use a la carte In A Sentence
- There are two course menus and an a la carte menu with plentiful seafood in season, fresh vegetables and fruits.
- The trend toward à la carte pricing - once the hallmark of no-frills, low-cost carriers - has in recent years been adopted by the legacy airlines, and will likely continue in 2009, as carriers try to boost what they call ancillary revenue. Latest News
- I had a full a la carte menu to choose from, freshly cooked meats, chilled lasagne (a favourite) and cakes of every description.
- In the evening, the menu takes on more of a bistro persona, with a la carte offerings spanning the gamut from burgers, roast chicken and baked fish to tasty "chasseur" hotpots of mussels steamed in wine (moules marinieres this would be called in France). News On Japan
- Games can be demoed free and purchased or rented a la carte, or players can subscribe to the OnLive PlayPack for unlimited play of more than 200 games, with more titles added monthly.
- The most common line of attack from these sanctimonious scribes is that the Catholic Church is not a democracy and that so-called a la carte Catholics should get out of the church.
- Re: the a la carte menu served at your restaurant on February 19th 2008 (my birthday), including (but not limited to) smoked ocean trout with avruga caviar, leek & crab custard, confit of Petuna Tasmanian ocean trout with daikon and fennel (I don’t even like daikon and fennel, except yours,) grilled fillet of barramundi, twice-cooked spatchcock and oh my god the Wagyu beef with lime and wasabi: Yatima » 2008 » March
- Included in the prize is one à la carte dinner for two. Times, Sunday Times
- Included in the prize is one à la carte dinner for two. Times, Sunday Times
- we ate a la carte