5 Essential Tips On Dining Etiquette
4. The toast
We’ve seen this dining etiquette in many movies but we hardly ever follow it successfully, isn’t it? Now is your chance to follow this dining etiquette and impress your guests or host. Apart from raising your glass when the toast is being given, you must follow the basic dining etiquette of not sipping your wine before that. When the toast is completed, take one sip of your wine immediately. Finally, polish of your dining etiquette by supplementing the toast with compliments or applause whenever required.
5. End of the dinner
We all usually think, “Hey, what’s the big deal with dining etiquette for ending a dinner?”. But ladies and gentlemen, you must keep in mind this important dining etiquette to not end up looking rude at your dinner party. To inform everyone that you’ve finished your meal, put your fork with its tines up and your knife at a position of five o’clock, with the ends pointing towards ten o’clock on your plate. Also, don’t forget your basic etiquette of conveying thanks to the host or to the guests when your dinner ends.
