RORY: Where else can we invite them?
LORELAI: Al’s Pancake World.
RORY: No, it’s Friday. He does his prix fixe menu on Fridays.
Prix fixe is French for “fixed price” – a chef’s menu where there are only a few items, charged at a fixed total price to make an entire meal. It is also known as table d’hôte, literally “the host’s table”.
Apparently the prix fixe menu at Al’s isn’t good, or isn’t worth it.
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 