a la carte

Example Sentences

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While Williams-Sonoma offers a number of complete Thanksgiving dinners for delivery—including one featuring a Cajun-style fried turkey, and another with a honey-glazed ham—the kitchenware and gourmet-food retailer also offers dozens of à la carte offerings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

They offer omakase and à la carte sushi.

From Salon • Jan. 26, 2025

First-class passengers are even offered an à la carte menu and sit-down, waiter-service dining.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2024

For comparison, if you were to order those three meats off the à la carte menu, it would cost just under $130 total.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2023

However, half-an-hour afterwards all our discomforts were forgotten as we sat down to an excellent dinner à la carte.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.