table d'hôte

Unadapted borrowing from French table d’hôte (“table of the host”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɑːblə ˈdəʊt/, /ˌtɑːbəl -/

table d'hôte (plural tables d'hôte)

1. a menu offering a complete meal, with little choice, at a fixed price
   • 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Dearer meals in B.R. trains”, in Modern Railways, page 78:

     The increases from December 4 in the prices of table d'hôte meals in British Railways restaurant cars were expected, in view both of a general upward trend in meal prices in the catering trade and of the fiat that train meals must pay for themselves.

table d'hôte (not comparable)

1. Of menu selections, offered at a fixed price.

• prix fixe
• set menu

• à la carte

• “table d'hôte”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• bottlehead

• IPA^(key): /ta.blə d‿ot/

table d’hôte f (plural tables d’hôte)

1. a menu offering a complete meal, with little choice, at a fixed price