Haute cuisine

Haute cuisine (French: [ot kɥizin]; lit. 'high cooking') or grande cuisine is the cuisine of "high-level" posh dining establishments, gourmet restaurants, and luxury hotels that are catered to a profile of more affluent clientele exhibiting more discerning tastes and enthusiasm. Haute cuisine is characterized by its higher degree of punctiliousness and higher caliber of more refined and elaborate food preparation techniques, complex usage of ingredients with the more carefully crafted displays of aesthetics, and sophisticated standards of presentation of food prepared more often by more highly-skilled gourmet chefs that are offered at a higher quality and price.