Dining at a coursed restaurant is a unique delight, offering the opportunity to witness a chef using a plate as a blank canvas with course after course of dishes meant to stimulate the eyes, nose and ...

Dining out is changing. It’s no longer just about ordering from a menu, but stepping into the kitchen, hearing the chef’s story and taking a journey through food. Currently a mainstay in Europe but ...

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 ...

Entering the dining room at Emeril’s Restaurant, you pass smoothly curving walls and booths the color of quicksilver as you move toward the moon glow of the illuminated frame around the glassed-in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dallas chefs have tried serving tasting menus for years. The chef’s-choice option has popped up at special events and weekly dinners from the likes of Petra and the Beast. At one point, Dallas even ...