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.

It is used to serve the main course at all meals formal and informal. Position it right in the middle of each setting equally spaced and with enough room for the rest of the setting. The first item to place on the tablecloth is the dinner plate. 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.

Modern dinner plates measure from 10 to 11 inches across. Place them in the middle of the dinner plate. 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. Don t use teaspoons unless strictly necessary.

Then take a folded napkin and place it to the left of the plate. This setting is perfect for a small lunch with friends or family. The dinner plate is used more than any other plate. Stemware is set above and to the right of the dinner plate.

Teaspoons wouldn t be placed at individual place settings at a formal dinner. To the right of the plate place a knife blade facing toward the plate and then a spoon. 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. You may use napkin rings or fold the napkins elegantly.

Luncheon is lighter simpler meal than dinner a repast served on a plate about 9 to 9 5 inches in diameter. Use coffee spoons or dessert spoons as appropriate at a formal dinner.