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🍽️ A set-price meal 🍽️ Set-price (meal)
prix fixe

prix fixe

1 7.3
A meal at a restaurant with several courses for one fixed price
  • noun
  • /priː fɪks/
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  • "Ordering the prix fixe meal is also usually cheaper than ordering à la carte."
  • prix fixe menu
  • prix fixe menus
  • prix fixe dinner

Examples

  • On Sundays, you can enjoy a special prix fixe dinner featuring locally sourced ingredients.

  • The restaurant offers a delicious three-course prix fixe menu for just $45.

  • At the last minute, we opted out of making Thanksgiving dinner together in favor of an overpriced prix fixe menu.

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  • "Many places have prix fixe meals for half the price the same meal would cost at dinner," Clampet says, referring to a complete meal offered at a fixed price.

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  • Their popular nightly prix fixe menu is a relatively affordable way to try the seasonally inspired menu, or you can go all out with their seven-course tasting menu.

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  • At the new bistro, the prix fixe lunch includes a starter, main dish, and dessert for $25.

Synonyms

table d'hote
vsprix fixe
8.8

A menu that offers a set of courses for one fixed price

has identical meaning but uses a different culinary term
multicourse
vsprix fixe
3.7

A meal with several courses served one after another

includes that structure but adds a fixed total price and limited choices

Antonyms

a la carte
1 5.1

A menu where each dish is ordered and priced separately

How Limited

prix fixe
1 7.3
tasting
48 2.3
a la carte
1 5.1

Surface Forms

prix fixe singular
prix fixes plural

Morphology

prix + fixe

The phrase is literally French for 'fixed price' (prix = price, fixe = fixed), so a learner who knows the constituent words can directly infer that it refers to a meal offered at a fixed price. Although it's a borrowed French phrase rather than native English vocabulary, the composition is fully compositional and parallels equivalents in many languages, making it transparent.

Etymology

Prix fixe comes from French, where prix means 'price' and fixe means 'fixed'. The phrase pictured a restaurant offering a whole meal for one set price, so today prix fixe means 'a complete meal at a set price'.