Do you serve on the right or the left when serving salad, soup and dinner
Answer From Expert Roger Bohmrich MW
This isn't really my area of expertise, but I gather from friends with formal culinary and service training that food is usually served from the left and removed from the right. I suppose the answer also depends on whether the meal is "fancy" or casual - and whether you feel it necessary to follow the rules! Some table configurations and seating arrangements simply call for a common sense, improvised approach.
