spécialité de la maison

[ spe-syah-lee-tey duh la mey-zawn ]

noun

, French.

1. the specialty of the house (used in referring to the most important dish served by a restaurant).

Example Sentences

Also try the Burnt Toast Cafe, and ask for the bison sausage; and the Yukon Mining Company, where the spécialité de la maison is bison burger.

From New York Times

Possibly the worst crime of the war -- worse even than the ingenious atrocities that are the specialite de la maison of the Balkans -- is the systematic starvation of entire populations by the Serb fighters surrounding cities like Tuzla and Srebrenica and Sarajevo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here we refreshed ourselves with tea and some very dainty little cakes that are a spécialité de la maison, while Walter gracefully mounted his hobby, which, as you have doubtless gathered ere this, is the faithfulness of Alexander Dumas to history.

From Project Gutenberg

“Iced mulberry salad, my dear, it’s a spécialité de la maison, so to speak; they say the roving husband brought the recipe from Astrakhan, or Seville, or some such outlandish place.”

From Project Gutenberg

The Prince of Wales's Theatre has a reputation for level excellence in Comic Opera—it is the spécialité de la maison, and the new lyrical piece is a worthy successor to Dorothy, Marjorie, and Paul Jones.

From Project Gutenberg