Tasting menu
The trend traces back centuries , but some trace the latest evolution to the mid-1990s and two highly lauded restaurants , Chef Ferran Adrià's El Bulli in Spain , and Chef Thomas Keller's French Laundry , in Napa Valley , north of San Francisco in the U . S . , that offered tasting menus of 40 courses or more . 
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