Formal Dining Plate Setting

If you are going to serve tea after your formal dinner you can place a teaspoon on the saucers your guests use for their tea cups.

Formal dining plate setting.

This setting is perfect for a small lunch with friends or family. To the right of the plate place a knife blade facing toward the plate and then a spoon. The formal place setting is used at home for a meal of more than three courses such as a dinner party or a holiday meal. Teaspoons wouldn t be placed at individual place settings at a formal dinner.

Stemware is set above and to the right of the dinner plate. Position it right in the middle of each setting equally spaced and with enough room for the rest of the setting. It s simply the informal place setting taken to the next level adding glassware dishes and utensils for the foods and beverages served with the additional courses. For this type of setting place a plate in front of each chair.

Modern dinner plates measure from 10 to 11 inches across. Place them in the middle of the dinner plate. Don t use teaspoons unless strictly necessary. You may use napkin rings or fold the napkins elegantly.

The dinner plate is used more than any other plate. Next place a dinner fork on top of the napkin. The first item to place on the tablecloth is the dinner plate. It is used to serve the main course at all meals formal and informal.

Flatware should align with the bottom rim of the charger a large plate which will be removed after everyone spreads his napkin on his lap napkin rings often customary at family meals may be used as a. Then take a folded napkin and place it to the left of the plate.