What is a la carte food?

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What is a la carte food?

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Food that shows up all by itself . . . you might also call it "lonely" food.

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a la carte  - is from the menu. this means that you order everything seperately.

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What you order "a la carte" is exactly what you get. Example: I want the rice a la carte. You would recieve a side of rice and nothing else.

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muck on a truck

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food that is on the menu

a la carte=on the menu in french.

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Single servings of side food, IE: baked potato, salad, asparagus, etc. that are purchased separately from the meal.

Many fine dinning restaurants will say have a Fillet Mignon as the meal, everything else is a la carte.

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off the menu. a dish without sides.

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Here is a link for more info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_la_c...

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items purchased separately instead of like a meal or combo.

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A menu when you buy food separately to make a meal.

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From the menu

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it has little hairs in it...don't eat it!

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Restaurants serve a set meal or you can pick what you want from the list.

In posh restaurants, the set meal is called table d'hote and the stuff of the list is called a la carte.  As a general rule, if they've got to use French, expect to pay twice as much.

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food in a barrow

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each item priced and sold separately

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A French expression meaning "from the menu." To order à la carte is simply to order from the menu. It can also refer to a menu of items that are available to order separately.

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Items that are purchased separately rather than as part of a meal.

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something ordered a la carte is without the salad or other side dish.

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i have it at school during my lunch period.

it just means you dont have to buy a meal you can just get a bunch of little iteams. like say one lunch line has breaded chicken with mashed potatoes and a roll. well in ala carte you can just get chicken and a roll or mashed potatoes and a roll.

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when everything is set out really really posh and waitresses come and wait on u !

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An array of delicacies that were originally on a serving cart enroute to a large table of diners, but was hit by an impatient waiter, and so, was taken back to the kitchen, cleaned up, recovered and is presently being offered for sale separately.

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HA! thats funny our school has that and we have meal deal which is you can only get certain foods for $2 and a la carte is like (for my school) paying extra money for other stuff.

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either food chart or food cart

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comes to you on a fancy cart you pick which thing you like

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It is a side food from the same menu.Like a steak dinner- steak, potatoe and salad. and you want a order of onion rings. The onion rings is something extra or off the side.

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Its best understood as what you see on the menu is what you get :) don't try and order some crazy stuff or we might have to employ a chef :)

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it is seperate items ordered from a menu

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it is expensive!! no side dish items...

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FOOD SERVED FROM A TROLLEY OF COURSE

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USUALLY it is food that is like "set in stone" and restaurants often has freezers full of food that is then "nuked" before dished up.

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off the menu