Think putting together a menu is easy? Try this: Take whatever you fixed for dinner last night and describe it on paper. Make it sound good--good enough to order. “Sometimes I struggle, struggle, ...

Writing a restaurant menu is not simply about making tasty dishes appear delectable. There is a rhyme and reason to what comes first, whether to show prices and putting loss leaders in the front.

I have a love/hate relationship with menu writing. I love writing menus for all the obvious reasons such as the creative outlet the act of writing an interesting menu provides. Ironically, I hat ...

When struggling through tortuously over- or under-explained menu offerings littered with typos and misaligned descriptive words, I can’t help but cringe with self-righteous indignation at the waning ...

We all know the feeling. You're at a restaurant deciding what to order when you start to wonder about a description on the menu. You might subtly Google it, or maybe you're bold enough to ask the ...

In the early 2000s, Melbourne chef Shannon Martinez introduced a vegan parma to the menu at the East Brunswick Hotel that had punk rockers queuing up to dine before they hit the band room. “The pub ...