Definitions for "Table d'hôte"
Keywords:  meal, restaurant, guest, hotel, d'h
A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.
Now, commonly, a meal, usually of several preselected and fixed courses, in a restaurant, hotel, or the like, for which one pays a fixed price. Sometimes, a meal with optional courses for which one pays a fixed price irrespective of what one orders; but the latter is usuallyt referred to as a pris fixe meal or a a la carte meal. Often used adjectively; as, a table-d'hôte meal.
set menu of two or more courses and maybe one or more choices within each course. Generally the choices are limited. The price is pre-set for this style of meal.