In many of the appetizers, reality differs from menu descriptions.

Better still would be to use menu descriptions to tell the story.

But menu descriptions failed with an individual pizza listed as thin and grilled to order.

One problem is that the dishes delivered sometimes differ from their menu descriptions.

Occasionally, the menu descriptions are more spirited than the dishes.

But a few dishes fail to live up to menu description.

As often happens, menu descriptions have nothing to do with the dishes you actually get.

It was tasty but not what we expected from the menu description.

In some cases, the menu description is livelier than the reality.

"The longer the menu description, the worse the food."