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dessert menu (the menu listing desserts at a restaurant or café)
The separate menu (or section of the menu) that lists the desserts and sweets offered at a restaurant, café, or hotel. Customers typically request it after finishing the main course.
This restaurant has such an extensive dessert menu that it's hard to decide.
デザートメニュー is a transparent compound of the loanwords デザート ("dessert") and メニュー ("menu"). It refers to a separate menu — or a clearly delimited section of the main menu — listing the sweet courses available at a restaurant, café, or hotel.
Common collocations
- デザートメニューをください: please bring the dessert menu (typical request)
- デザートメニューを見る: to look at the dessert menu
- デザートメニューを見せる: to show the dessert menu
- デザートメニューが豊富: has a wide variety of desserts
- 季節のデザートメニュー: seasonal dessert menu
Related words
- メニュー: menu
- デザート: dessert
- ランチメニュー: lunch menu
- ディナーメニュー: dinner menu
- ドリンクメニュー: drink menu
- スイーツ: sweets / desserts (often used interchangeably with デザート for a more trendy feel)
Usage
- The polite request used at restaurants is typically デザートメニューをお願いします or デザートメニューを見せていただけますか, both more polite than the abrupt デザートメニューをください.
- Cafés often display the dessert menu separately from the main menu (for example, on a small standing card on the table) so that customers can browse it after finishing their meal.