amuse-bouche

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Recent Examples of amuse-bouche The menu, which is serve ala carte starts with snack-style amuse-bouches including a sweet shrimp tartlette with crème fraiche, maple, and shiso; uni French toast topped with roasted pepper cream and bone marrow; and crispy but light green bean beignets served three to an order with tarragon sauce. Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025 If the last campaign was an amuse-bouche, Yamal has brought the full flavor in 2024/25, and there’s still much room for improvement numbers-wise. Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025 All of these are mere amuse-bouches in preparation for the main course, in which Hunt manages to stowaway on a biplane, commandeer it, then jump onto a second biplane and hang on to the wing while swooping up to 8000 feet. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025 The new suites are 25% larger than the standard United Polaris offering and have privacy doors, an extra ottoman seat, exclusive meal options and a caviar amuse-bouche service. Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 13 May 2025 Seafood Courses The eight courses begin with an amuse-bouche containing definite New York touches including a King Salmon Everything Bagel plus a suggestion of a smash burger but composed of the fatty tuna Otoro, egg yolk gelee and Choux pastry and an A5 Wagyu & Hokkaido Uni Sando. Laurie Werner, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025 For light fare — an amuse-bouche, essentially — Carême gets the job done. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 May 2025 The kaleidoscope of color followed us to the restaurant, where there was a scotch bonnet on top of my margarita and green tobiko atop an amuse-bouche of local lobster. Elspeth Velten, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2025 With each new dish, flavors, portions, complexity and texture build from there. Editors’ Picks Image Image The amuse-bouche is usually whimsical, and starts the performance at the table and buys the kitchen time. Alix Strauss, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for amuse-bouche
Noun
  • Craft cocktails like the Cloud Nine, Eclipse Martini and Sundown Spritz channel the sky-high ambience, while the food menu offers a range of trans-Pacific shareables, appetizers and entrees.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • The James Beard Award winner is teaming up with Target's Good & Gather line to bring Carolina-style appetizers, snacks, and sauces to tables across the country.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • Bring your appetite and go big, with antipasto, pasta, main course, and dessert at a homey trat like Da Enzo da 29.
    Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
  • Most locals start with the mixed antipasto, an array of raw and cooked seafood, before having the Assassina.
    Laura May Todd Enea Arienti, New York Times, 17 May 2024
Noun
  • Upon checking in, guests will be greeted with a welcome cocktail (with a spirit-free option available, too).
    Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2025
  • The cocktail was invented in the 1920s by American expat Victor Morris in Lima’s Morris Bar.
    Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Trump’s slash-and-burn approach to reform — on issues as varied as immigration enforcement to Medicaid to Veterans Affairs and COVID-19 shots, just for starters, will take a strong pushback just to land somewhere near the ever-elusive sensible center.
    Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
  • The situation is only made worse on occasions when the starters slip.
    Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 1 June 2025

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“Amuse-bouche.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amuse-bouche. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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