Sentence examples for order a dish from inspiring English sources

At times I order a dish more for its unusual accouterments than for the more mundane-sounding main attraction.

Few things are more annoying than to order a dish mostly because it has "ingredient X" only to have the dish delivered sans the key item.

I like to order a dish or two per person at a time, and then keep ordering as the meal progresses.

In a celebrated 1970 Monty Python skit, a diner tries repeatedly and in vain to order a dish, any dish, without Spam.

Personally, I'd be almost too embarrassed to order a dish called The Shrimp Progression, but it's the hit of the menu: five ways with prawns, from ceviche to sushi, in the spirit of the restaurant's other fare.

Not afraid to geek out, he's just as curious about how sound affects taste (diners who order a dish called Sound of the Sea listen to an iPod playing waves) as he is about 17th-century English cuisine.

He ordered a dish of the famous Aleppan cherry kebab for me to try.

Curiously, diners who ordered a dish called El Puerco ("the pig") most often felt compelled to pay the highest price.

She ordered a dish that has historical significance to African Americans in the South, while civil rights activist Sharpton ordered something more mundane.

I innocently ordered a dish called something like fish with corn sauce, unaware that a main ingredient was canned creamed corn.

She says customers need no persuading when it comes to ordering a dish garnished with fat, although she concedes description is key.