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 ...

Mark Taylor looks at how to select the right dishes for a perfectly-balanced menu Concise menus Size isn't everything when it comes to writing menus... Mark Taylor looks at how to select the right ...

MENUS are usually things you quickly scan before discarding, that you spill red wine on, or fold up to stabilise a wobbly table leg. For Co Down-born food writer Diana Henry, though, menus are so much ...

Craft Guild member Philippe Avril may indulge his sense of French flair when he cooks, but when it comes to writing menus he prefers to keep things simple Different people have different ways of ...

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 ...