Pamper yourself with a Fine Dining experience?

Answer 1

While fine dining has become an essential part of the culinary arts in the United States, it originally began in Paris, France in 1782 at a restaurant called, La Grande Taverne de Lourdes. It’s owner became the first celebrity restanteur and penned a book detailing the essential ingredients of a fine dining experience: superb food preparation, lovely wines, intelligent and caring waiters, and, of course, an utterly elegant setting.

This article will focus on the customer service you can expect in today’s fine dining establishments. In addition to being specially trained to focus on certain aspects of enjoying a gracious meal, the waiters are also attentive to other niceties that can make fine dining much more than something that tantalizes and satisfies your palette.

They will escort you and each person of your party to your reserved table. They will properly seat women - pulling out their chair and helping to push it in to a comfortable distance from the edge of the table. The menu will be memorized to perfection and presented verbally (you will not be given one). Any and all aspects of every dish that is served will be easily discussed with your waiter, including the spices and how each item will be prepared. The waiters will be able to assist with recommendations about what to order and will be able to suggest the perfect wine to accompany your meal. All orders will be taken verbally without notes.

At some of the finest restaurants, the waiters will accompany you to the restroom. While you are away from your table, they will replace your rumpled cloth napkin with a freshly folded one. Upon returning to your table, you will find that it has been crumbed and all water glasses refreshed to an exacting level. Be prepared for your napkin to be placed on your lap and for your meat or fish entree to be cut for you.

These are some of the refinements you can expect in a fine dining establishment from the wait staff. They have perfected the art of waitering and can definitely pamper you and your friends or family to the utmost in hospitality and graciousness.