If your idea of fine dining is a date at Olive Garden, you’re probably used to menus stating exactly what’s on them. Each dish has a simple name, and its components are clearly listed below. But nowadays, restaurants will use any tactic they can to up their prices, including using a heavy hand to smother their food in fancy buzzwords.
Have you noticed recently how many menus are suddenly featuring hot honey, truffles, and microgreens? These trendy buzzwords don’t only make meals more Instagrammable, they also seem to be a tactic restaurants use to justify their high prices. Threads users have recently been discussing some of the most popular phrases restaurants are haphazardly slapping on menus, so we've compiled a list of them below. Enjoy reading through, and be sure to upvote the ones that make you lose your appetite too!
#21
This is a restaurant, not a freaking museum. "Curated" is some ridiculously pretentious nonsense.
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7points
#29
Hand cut, surely there was a knife involved
4points
#30
Farm to table. Everything came from a farm and ended up on a table. It’s about the in between.
(I own an organic farm with a restaurant onsite and don’t even use that stupid saying)
(I own an organic farm with a restaurant onsite and don’t even use that stupid saying)
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4points
#37
Foraged and heritage anything, especially “foraged”. Like the sous chef was out in the woods yesterday. 😏
3points
#38
Any place of business, including restaurants, that boast that their product is “world famous.”
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3points
#39
Queso cheese & naan bread. Just say cheese dip & bread, and stop charging me $20 for it.
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3points
