what is ala carte?

Answer 1

A la carte (also à la carte) is a French expression meaning "from the menu", and it is used in restaurant terminology in one of two ways:

It may refer to a menu of items priced and ordered separately rather than selected from a list of preset multi-course meals at fixed prices (see Table d'hôte).
Or it may designate the option to order a main course item alone that is otherwise served with a side or starter dish, such as soup or salad.

Answer 2

Dinner usually includes soup, salad, desert and a main course and sometimes coffee, tea or a soft drink.

Ala carte is soup or salad, main course, and some times coffee tea or a soft drink.

I find it is usually a better deal to order the dinner. The dinner is a few dollars more then the ala cart, and the ala cart you get way less food then the dinner.

Answer 3

Ala-Carte is when you order the main course without the soup, salad desert and drink. for example if you ordered a turkey ala-carte you would get the turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes and sometimes a veg. If you got the dinner you would get the soup, and or salad, rolls, coffee or tea and desert which usually is rice pudding, sherbet or a scoop of vanilla ice cream

Answer 4

Ala Carte is a line where you can pick out foods that you normally could not get.

Answer 5

In a better restaurant when every item you order is charged separately (instead of a "includes salad, drink and dessert"), you are ordering "a la carte" - literally "from the card, or menu".

Answer 6

I think its an entree with coffee, soup or salad and dessert.

Answer 7

if its on a mexican restaurant menu it means that it comes by itself

Answer 8

by itself not served with anything

Answer 9

french for "on the side" or "stands alone"