Principles of setting tableware on French family table

Knife, fork and spoon are placed on both sides of the plate, from outside to inside in the order of eating.

If the dish is soup, fish and meat, then on the right side of the plate, put a spoon, a knife for eating fish and a knife for eating meat in turn from right to left.

The blade is placed in the direction of the plate.

The fork needed for each dish is placed on the left side of the plate in turn, with the fork facing down.

Dessert spoon and cheese knife are placed in front of the plate, with their hands to the right.

It is said that if it is a formal banquet, dessert spoons and cheese knives are not set in advance, but served at the time of cheese and dessert.

The cup is placed in front of the plate, decreasing from large to small from left to right.

The largest (leftmost) is the water glass, followed by the red wine glass and the white wine glass.

It is said that elegant people will never confuse wine glasses.

Even if you drink two different kinds of red wine, you have to change different glasses.

The plate should be placed one or two centimeters away from the edge of the table.

Divided into:-

Decorative board

There is no need to put this plate at the bottom, it is optional.

It is always motionless, and its purpose is only to pretend that it is the support of other plates.

The other plates came up one by one and put them on top.

It will be removed before eating cheese.

That is to say, the table is empty at this time.

For soup.

Put it on a flat plate and come up together (in order not to pollute the tablecloth with soup). When disassembling, two plates should be disassembled together.

flat

Used for main courses (meat, fish, etc.). ).

Bread plate.

A fastidious person will put a small dish on the left front of the main dish for putting bread.

To sum up, knives, forks and spoons are all set at the beginning, and one is taken away after eating.

And the plates are not all set at the beginning, but one at a time.

If we see three plates stacked together on the table, it is because the bottom one is a decorative plate, and the top two (a deep plate+a flat plate) should be removed together after drinking the soup.

After the evacuation, put a clean plate back and continue to eat.

Cheese and dessert plates will not be placed in advance, but will be temporarily placed in the cheese and dessert section (don't forget, the decorative plates have been removed and the guests are empty).

Note: Do not stack more than three plates together; You can't stack two flat plates together.

Although the decorative plate is flat, it is not included in the flat plate, so a flat plate can be stacked on it.