À la ___

CARTE

Think of how a menu offers individually priced dishes rather than fixed combinations.

"À la ___" is a French phrase commonly used in restaurants to describe ordering individual dishes from a menu rather than a fixed set meal. The answer "CARTE" completes the phrase "à la carte," which literally means "by the card" (referring to the menu). It’s a straightforward fill-in-the-blank where the missing word is a well-known culinary term.