Category: Hosting and Dining Etiquette
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The Ultimate Guide to Charcuterie Board Hosting
It has made its way into every house party, every chic cocktail and even features as the appetiser at formal dinners. The charcuterie board or grazing board is here to stay and your best preparatory decisions as a host are not the same as planning to pass around a bowl…
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Everything You Need to Do When Invited for a Formal Dinner
Here is your real world guide to mastering the art of being a great guest.
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The Complete Guide to Dining Etiquette and Table Manners
The intricacies of formal dining can be tricky, but because they are too important they cannot be ignored. Here is the easiest read you would have on the dining etiquette and table manners.
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Do I Clear the Table?
The urge to clear up and clean probably is a useful trait to have driven in to your DNA, however, practising it anywhere and everywhere may not be the best course of action.
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Dining Etiquette: Eating by Hand
If you are unsure of how to politely eat with your fingers or you are someone who has eaten with cutlery all your life and want to jump onto the other side – this is for you!
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Dining Etiquette: How to Have Soup Properly
Love Soup but Hate Having it in Public? This one is set to solve those problems for good.
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Are You Ready for Your Next Cocktail?
The feeling of being under-prepared is never a pleasant one. From attire to conversation, from conduct to contribution, there is a long list of attributes to tick off the list to be prepared. Here is a bit of help from Full of Etiquette for cocktails.
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Dining Etiquette: Keep Your Elbows Off the Table
How often have you heard this while growing up? At home, at your aunt’s dining table and in poems, the words must echo in your head even now. What does it really mean? Why does it matter? To whom does it apply? This is a golden rule of dining etiquette…
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Dining Etiquette: How to Use Your Napkin at a Formal Dinner
Napkin bunglers, here are the answers you need to use a napkin at a formal or semi formal dining table with poise rather than stuffing it! 01. How should it be spread out? It should sit on your lap and not be tucked in to your neckline. Adjust it to…
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Dining Etiquette: Is THIS My Glass?
Did you just unknowingly sip from your neighbour’s glass of water at a formal dinner? Were you confused about where to keep your bread roll after you picked it up from the bread basket? Were you wondering how to start buttering the bread? Great – you stumbled on to the…
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Dining Etiquette: How to Use Silverware Correctly
Fast food chains, cafes and diners definitely changed the game when it came to dining and our lifestyles as a whole, across the world. This article is written from the point of view of the simple use of cutlery and you won’t find anything health related or philosophical – but…
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Serving House Guests
When guests call over, remember that it is the ladies that are to be served first. If this comes as news – know that you are not the first to tell me that. Many people I know have thought the opposite to be true. This post should help you to…
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Slurping Over Soups and Drinks
Tea drinkers, please read on and take no offence. Everyone else, well since you can’t possibly be managing without drinking something or the other – guess some of this is relevant to you as well. Enjoy the cuppas and the read.
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What is the Etiquette of This Place?
A simple prompt to keep us on our toes and stick to our resolution of being full of etiquette in 2023. P.S: I admit that the ice cream is click bait.
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Avoid Being a Pesky Guest
Events and gatherings are places for us to actively display our prowess at being civic minded, conscious of others and being full of etiquette. Do we share the space at events well? Are we guilty of overstepping the mark?
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Charcuterie Board Etiquette: How to Eat and Share Properly
As always, etiquette rules apply almost everywhere we go – cheese is no exception. Here are a few words of caution before you plunge your way in to the snacks served on a cheese board.
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Cocktail Courtesies
If you are stepping out for a business cum social event and this seems to be the first one after ages, read up and remind yourself of the best practices that will make people remember you for the right reasons.