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 ...

A trio of Michelin-recommended Dallas restaurants — the Heritage Table in Frisco, Monarch, and Quarter Acre — launched tasting menus in 2025. Coincidence? Maybe not. Tasting menus have long been a ...

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 ...

We recently touched on the growing trend of tasting menus and noted how popular they have become, not only here, but all over the country. In that article about Quarter Acre’s ever-changing daily chef ...

The first time I ever tried sweetbreads — a deceptively cloying name for the thymus and pancreas of a calf — was when I worked as a server for a tasting menu restaurant in Charlotte. It was lightly ...