À la carte /ɑːləˈkɑːrt/ is a French language loan phrase meaning "according to the menu", and used
The phrase was adopted into English in 1826, predating by a decade the common use of the French language loanword "menu".
À la carte (アラカルト, Arakaruto) is the first mini-album by Fujifabric, released in October 2002 under the independent Japanese record label Song-Crux.
À la carte is a French expression meaning "from the card", and is used in restaurant terminology.
A la Carte may also refer to:
The phrase has also found considerable use in computer science and category theory literature, including research works in the field of functional programming, such as: "Datatypes à la carte", "Compilation à la Carte", "Evaluation à la Carte". In this context, the phrase is used to concisely refer to a possibility to assemble an abstract "meal" (such as a complex functor) from a set of small, readily available parts (coproduct operands in case of datatypes à la carte).