Restaurants that serve tapas-sized dishes designed to share — and charge you $18 per tiny plate while claiming they're "for the table." The 2010s dining trend that survived COVID.
Lunch out in Caerphilly. Surprisingly good small plates (ragu arancini, and chicken parm) given that the pizza was distinctly "British-style". It was delicious though - pepperoni and hot honey. #foodsky
Textually, Words of Mormon serves to link the Small Plates of Nephi, which precede it in the current printed version, but which would have been placed after Mormon's full record in the golden plates, with the rest of…
Restaurants that serve tapas-sized dishes designed to share — and charge you $18 per tiny plate while claiming they're "for the table." The 2010s dining trend that survived COVID. Came back as "girl dinner" inspiration; same plates, different framing.
"Went to a small plates spot. Ordered 9 dishes. Still hungry. Still broke."
'Small plates' is a restaurant style where diners order multiple shared dishes (each small) rather than individual mains. Inspired by Spanish tapas, Greek mezze and Asian sharing menus. Popular in city restaurants since the 2000s. If your teen mentions a small-plates restaurant, they are talking about a sharing-style dinner. Wholesome and social; just slightly easier on the wallet at the planning stage than at the bill stage.
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A dinner cobbled together from random fridge scraps — cheese, crackers, pickles, olives, leftover pasta, maybe wine. Celebrated as liberation from traditional cooking obligations, quietly also a cry for help. Coined by TikToker Olivia Maher in May 2023.
(chiefly, US, dated) A popular meal offered at a reduced price, usually in inexpensive eateries and often on a plate divided into compartments for different food items.
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, historical, _, in the, _, US, and, Canada) A smaller dish served before the main course of a meal.
Small plates may refer either to small dishes resembling appetizers which are ordered à la carte and often shared, such as tapas, or to the small courses served as part of a more formal meal.
'Small plates' is a restaurant style where diners order multiple shared dishes (each small) rather than individual mains. Inspired by Spanish tapas, Greek mezze and Asian sharing menus. Popular in city restaurants since the 2000s. If your teen mentions a small-plates restaurant, they are talking about a sharing-style dinner. Wholesome and social; just slightly easier on the wallet at the planning stage than at the bill stage.
'Small plates' is a restaurant dining style in which diners order multiple smaller, shared dishes rather than individual main courses, inspired by Spanish tapas, Greek mezze, Japanese izakaya and similar traditions. Mainstream in Western city restaurants since the 2000s. Register: informal-to-semi-formal, food and restaurant journalism. In formal writing the term is recognised. A common learner mistake is to assume small plates are appetisers; in this style the entire meal is composed of small plates, with no separate main course.
“Lunch out in Caerphilly. Surprisingly good small plates (ragu arancini, and chicken parm) given that the pizza was distinctly "British-style". It was delicious though - pepperoni and hot honey. #foodsky”
“Textually, Words of Mormon serves to link the Small Plates of Nephi, which precede it in the current printed version, but which would have been placed after Mormon's full record in the golden plates, with the rest of the Book of Mormon.”
“Small plates may refer either to small dishes resembling appetizers which are ordered à la carte and often shared, such as tapas, or to the small courses served as part of a more formal meal.”
“Small plates is a manner of dining that became popular in US food service after 2000.”
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