What is it called when you get food in a restaurant and its a small portion but presented niely on the plate?

Question

What is it called when you get food in a restaurant and its a small portion but presented niely on the plate?

Answer 1

I suspect you are referring to nouveau cuisuine although I call it a bloody rip off

Answer 2

Do you mean a little taster of a dish as a gift from the chef? That is an Amuse Bouche and I love them! Good way for chefs to try out new flavours and get customer feedback!

Answer 3

Expensive! - Usually

Answer 4

a big fat rip off

Answer 5

still hungry

Answer 6

A disappointment

Answer 7

1.Decoration

2.Little food

3.Waste of money

4.Waste of time.

5,Invitation to gastritis

6.U been fooled

7.U been paid much for less on the table.

etc.

Answer 8

Expensive.

Answer 9

Expensively stingy !

Answer 10

It's called quite properly,, "Mr. Nouveau Cuisine, For these prices, you have about 2 minutes to get the rest of my food out here or I am going to kick your a.s.s. up around your neck", hahaha. Hope this helped! But would not recommend saying it, :)   Take care, and God-Bless to You and Yours. 1st Sgt., 7th Special Forces, (Ret.) Vietnam 67-70

Answer 11

Nouvelle cuisine francaise

john

Answer 12

a way to charge more making more profit by using less food. also a very good thing to call it is PORTION CONTROL...something 100% of obese Americans need.

Answer 13

Nouvelle Cuisine, somewhat outdated now but still used to maximise profit! however, I have no objection to food being well presented.

Answer 14

Ok, all the other responders gave you the name and their opinion regarding the amount of food presented.  It is generally a French presentation very small portions very prettily presented at very expensive prices.  It is nice if ou are really celebrating something very special but overall I think there are better uses for the amount of money you would be spending.

Answer 15

Nouvelle Cuisine

Answer 16

I thought it may be a la carte but what do i know, Im from norfolk we just do proper grub.

Answer 17

a con

Answer 18

Unusual.

Answer 19

Nouvelle cuisine otherwise known as a complete rip off - the more you pay the less you get

Answer 20

Frustrating and I have to say not a little bit stingy. Or as they call it nouveau cuisine

Answer 21

This 'Nouvelle Cuisine' is characterised by lighter sauces and tiny portions, served in a decorative manner.

Answer 22

ripped off

Answer 23

A child's portion.

Answer 24

pretentious cr**?

Answer 25

stingy..

Answer 26

Cor-don-bleu spellings probably dodgy mind. Fetch yaself down the chippy - large portion yeah!

Answer 27

Nouveau Cuisine.

Answer 28

Nouviou cuisine.

Sorry about the spelling its French and the spell check doesn't seem to have heard of it.

Its also an excuse to charge the earth for next to nothing.

We have to pop in the chippy on the way home when we had one of those

Answer 29

I think it's a la carte.

Answer 30

a rip off