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

prix fixe

8.1
Offered as a complete meal with limited choices for each course at one price
  • adjective
  • /priː fɪks/
translation icon : fijo
  • The prix fixe is delicious!
  • prix fixe dinner
  • prix fixe three-course

Examples

  • The new Italian bistro provides a delightful prix fixe lunch option, allowing customers to enjoy a starter, main course, and dessert for a low price.

  • We enjoyed a fantastic prix fixe dining experience at the upscale restaurant, which featured several choices for each course.

  • Many upscale restaurants offer a prix fixe menu during special events.

  • She opted for the prix fixe option, knowing it was a better deal than ordering separately.

  • The prix fixe dinner included an appetizer, main course, and dessert.

  • Try the prix fixe!

  • For dinner tonight, we decided to try the restaurant's prix fixe menu, which offers a set three-course meal for a fixed price.

Synonyms

table d'hote
vsprix fixe
8.8

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

is the same menu format but uses a different traditional term

Antonyms

a la carte
1 5.1

A menu where each dish is ordered and priced separately

How Limited

prix fixe
8.1
tasting
31 1.1
a la carte
1 4.3

Surface Forms

prix fixe positive

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'. That's why restaurants describe a meal as 'prix fixe' when they offer a full menu with limited choices for one set price.