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Entertaining etiquette for a formal dinner with several courses requires specific placements for each of your flatware and glassware pieces. Though there are some slight variations depending on the style and complexity of the meal. Each item on a formal dinner menu is consumed using a specific type of flatware and is accompanied by a special wine or liquor. Formal place settings tend to include multiple pieces of flatware as well as glassware. Set out a perfect seven-course table arrangement with these easy table setting tips. The Flatware Silverware is traditionally laid out so that the knives and forks used for the dishes in the first course are placed at the outermost edge of the arrangement. The forks go on the left side of the plate and the knives to the right. Place a fish fork to the far left of a place setting. Keep a dinner fork to its right, followed by a salad fork immediately to the left of the china. Though in California-style dining, the salad precedes the entrée and consequently the places of the salad and the fish forks are exchanged. The dessert fork is always placed above the plate with its tines pointing towards the right. The cocktail fork is either placed in the bowl of the soup spoon or provided with the cocktail platter. Place the fish knife to the far left of the china, followed by the dinner knife, with the salad knife to the immediate right of the dinnerware. Again, in California-style dinners, the positions of the salad and fish knives are reversed. The soup spoon is always placed to the right of the knives. The dessert spoon is placed above the dessert fork. Both the sorbet spoon as well as the demitasse spoon accompanies their respective dishes, the sorbet and the coffee. The Glassware Each place setting includes five glasses. They are placed next to the dessert spoon and fork, to the upper right corner of the dishes. The water goblet occupies the far left, followed by the red-wine glass, the white-wine glass and the sherry glass. The champagne flute is placed behind this first row of glasses, in-between the water goblet and the red-wine glass. Achieve the perfect table setting for a seven-course dinner using these simple tips Authors Profile: William Socket is a certified interior designer and runs his own interior decoration consultancy. William especially loves decorating a home in wooden furniture and believes that nothing gives a home as warm and cozy a touch as all-wood furniture and decor. William loves reading up on new design ideas, and has a special interest in space saving techniques. Here William writes about flatware and glassware.
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