Service of Desserts, Fruits, Savouries, Cheese and Coffee

Abstract

In the sequence of courses of a meal, the sweet course comes after the main dish but before the coffee which concludes a meal. It is only at a very long, formal meal that all these four courses of dessert, fruit, savoury and cheese would be served at one and the same repast. Usually a customer chooses only one or at most, two of them, and the coffee. It should be noted that coffee does not count as a course in its own right, not even when served with petits fours or after-dinner mints.