Dinner Etiquette for Dessert

Formal Dining: Dessert - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats.

When your dessert arrives, it is served from the left. The items of cutlery above your dessert, are designed for the dessert. In this case we have both the spoon and the fork, and in a really nice restaurant, the wait staff would come along and move these items down for you. In this case, I am going to do this myself. They are slid along the table rather than picked up like this. So it is a nice, smooth gesture. With berries and any kind of dessert, you are actually eating it so you are putting your spoon in and coming toward you and eating them like this. When you remember about the soup, we ate away from us. The berries are coming in this way.

Now, if you want to take a break for a sip of tea or coffee, you must set this spoon down on the plate underneath because the balance of the spoon is too big for this and the chance of spillage is very great. Our dessert today also includes a cookie, so you pick up the whole cookie but not eat it like that. Break off a piece and then you would eat that cookie and the item is placed down as you are working through the cookie. Back to the dessert again and coming towards you and eating it. When you are finished, none of this pushing away, which I have seen many men do. Leave it right here where it is and allow the wait staff to remove this when you are finished and that is indicated when your spoon is down. When the wait staff is working around you, doing the tidying up, you must remain still rather than the dodging, because they do not know where you are going to move. To indicate that you were finished, you would then take your napkin up and place it on the table, not perfectly folded, but in a manner such as this.

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• dessert
• dining etiquette
• dinner
• formal dining
• casual dining
• dining tips
• food etiquette
• food eating tips
• Gloria Starr II
• Expert Series

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