西方餐桌礼仪起源于法国梅罗文加王朝，当时因着拜占庭文化启发，制定了一系列细致的礼仪。以下是西方餐桌礼仪介绍，欢迎阅读。
一、座位安排
1. 女士优先。在排定西餐座次时，主位请女主人就座，而男主人位居第二位。
2. 以右为尊。在排定座次时，以右为尊。
3. 面门为上。面对正门者为上座，背对正门者为下座。
4. 交叉排列。男女交叉排列，生人与熟人交叉排列。
5. 美国餐桌礼仪从入座、拿取餐巾、开动、取用餐具、离席，皆有自成一套的规矩，而其中座次与餐具安排，主人会于餐前准备妥当，无需费心。但应当熟悉餐具使用顺序及位置功能，以免拿错。
6. 女主人宣布晚宴就绪后，男主人引领着客人依次入座，而女主人则走在最后面。有些细心的主人还会在餐桌上放置姓名卡，以表示座次。若没有此项安排，则其原则如下。
7. 座次安排以男女分隔而坐为原则。男主客优先入坐，其位置在女主人右边，而女主客则在男主人右边。其他夫妇则以对角方式而坐。男女夫妇分坐显示出美式宴会之开放与活泼，期望借由宴席上座次的安排，增进彼此间之熟稔，并使用餐话题多样化，气氛和乐。
8. 入坐原则系客先入坐，长者较年轻者先入坐，已婚较未婚先入坐，陌生人较熟识客人或家人先入坐。
二、餐具的摆设
1. 大致上，摆在中央的称为摆饰盘，用来装一般料理。
2. 餐巾一般是置于装饰盘的上面或左方。
3. 盘子旁边摆刀、叉、汤匙等。依用餐顺序：前菜、汤、料理、鱼类、肉类、视所需由外而内取用。
4. 左手边是面包盘和奶油刀，装饰盘对面则放咖啡或吃点心所用的小汤匙和刀叉。
5. 餐具之取用系由外而内。但有一例外，即当沙拉与主菜同时上桌时，沙拉所需使用之刀叉乃放在最靠近餐盘的位置，即主菜刀叉的内侧。沙拉盘则在主菜所用之刀叉的左方。(主菜叉子位置在餐盘左方、餐盘右方为主菜刀子)。
6. 如没有沙拉盘摆于桌面，则沙拉用之刀叉会随沙拉上桌时一并送上。另一例外，即吃蚝(oyster)所用之叉子在餐盘右方餐具的最外侧，汤匙的位置在所有刀子的右方，最外者为喝汤用，介于刀及汤匙间的小匙，则为吃甜点(dessert)之用。而甜点叉则在餐盘最左方。但平常为避免混淆，则会将吃甜点所需之餐具置于餐盘上方，以示区别。
7. 坐定后必须注意女主人的暗示。当女主人打开餐巾放在膝上，表示开动;而女主人将餐巾取下放在桌上，则表示餐宴完毕。餐宴未结束时，即使已填满肚子，也应继续进餐，直到餐会结束。餐巾正确的位置应放在膝上，而非夹在衣领或衣带间。用完餐后，餐巾应放在餐盘的左方，如餐盘已移走，则放在正中央，切勿将之揉成一团。餐巾的用途乃揩嘴之手，尤其是喝饮料前最好能揩一下嘴，以免杯子尽是油渍。餐巾不可用来当桌布，擦去桌巾的污渍。如不小心弄脏了桌巾，应向主人道歉。
8. 餐具取用由外而内，切用时或以法式之左手拿叉，右手拿刀，边切边用。或为英美式，右手拿刀，左手拿叉，切好后，改以右手拿叉取用。美国较偏好后者，但法式亦为美国人所接受。谈话间有肢体表情或传菜时，应将刀叉放下，切不可持刀叉于空中挥动。刀叉用完后，应横放于在餐盘中央，而非盘边或餐桌上;放置方式刀口朝己，叉口朝左，以便取走之安全性。餐盘用完后，不应往外推，留在原处即可。
9. 右上角会摆设玻璃杯类的餐具。
10. 最大的是装水用的高脚杯。
11. 次大的是喝红葡萄酒所用的酒杯。
12. 略瘦长的玻璃杯为白葡萄酒所用。
13. 视情况，有时也会摆上香槟或雪利酒所用的玻璃杯。
三、刀叉的使用方法
1. 拿刀叉的手是固定的，右手拿刀，左手拿叉。
2. 拿刀的手的食指，压着刀叉的背柄来使用，如此才能使力。
3. 叉子不只用来压食物和叉东西而已，也可以用来舀豆子和米饭。
4. 如果用左手拿叉不方便，也可以使用右手，但必须先把刀放下。
5. 用餐中，如有事而要离席时，必须把刀叉摆成八字型放在餐盘上。
6. 用餐结束后，则是平行的'斜放在五点钟位置。
四、喝汤的礼仪
1. 西式料理用餐时，以不能发出声音为一大原则。如果在喝汤时发出声音就是违反礼仪。日本人认为汤是饮料，而西式料理则认为汤是食物，是用来食用而非饮用。
2. 食用装在有双耳的汤杯中时，为了测试汤的冷热程度，可以使用附带的小汤匙先试一口。使用后的小汤匙可以放在靠近身体这一边的底盘上，不可置于汤杯中。试过汤的温度后，可以用双手拿着汤杯耳，把汤杯端到口边直接饮用。至于汤中的食物，则可以用汤匙来舀食。
3. 没有汤耳的汤盘，要用大汤匙来舀食。拿汤匙的姿势像握铅笔一样，由内而外侧舀食。由内而外舀食是属英国式，反之则是法国式，日本一般采用英国式。把汤倒入口中时，不可发出声音，然后再用没有残留汤的汤匙，由自己的面前往外舀汤进食。
4. 使用完毕后，把汤匙放在靠自己身前的底盘上，或是放在盘中。谨记要把汤匙的柄放在右边的原则，而汤匙凹陷的部份必须向上，汤杯与汤盘都是如此。用汤时，不可噘起嘴来用力把汤吹凉。
五、食用面包的礼仪
1. 放置面包的位置一定是置于主菜的左侧。
2. 如果一开始就有面包，要知道在餐具左侧的面包是属于你的。
3. 涂抹奶油时，要使用个人的奶油刀，如果没有附上奶油刀，则可使用料理用刀。
4. 必须注意不可独占共用的奶油刀。
5. 如果选择的如法国面包一般的面包时，食用时可用左手拿面包，用右手把面包撕成小块。然后再用左手拿着小面包，而用右手涂抹奶油。要注意的是把面包撕成小块后，再涂奶油。
六、菜肴及调味料之传取
一般而言，若进餐时没有服务生，菜肴则以传取方式进行。传取顺序系由女主客优先，男主客最后传取时可以逆时针方式进行。依西方礼仪，传菜时男士不可帮女士拿菜，只能从旁代为帮忙拿住菜盘，而由女士取她想要的菜。取菜时，应直接拿取最靠近自己的，不要在盘中翻搅。当某道菜或调味品无法取到时，可要求最靠近该道菜的男宾客传给你。当调味品如盐、胡椒等在餐桌上看不到时，可以请问女主人，让她递取一些给你。
1、I will tell you all the things I know about table manners.
2、Do not take your seat till guests and elder people are seated
3、obtain small amount of food each time and do not make loud noise while eating.Take time to talk with neighboring people to create a relaxing atmosphere
4、Upon leaving,give thanks to the host and invite him/her to your house in the future.
5、These are all I know about table manners that you should pay attention to.Hope they are helpful to you.
6、When helping a woman pull her chair to the table, hold it and guide it. Don't shove it againstthe back of her legs.
7、If you're seated at a table with eight or fewer guests, wait for everyone to be served and forthe hostess to begin eating before you dig in. At a long banquet table, it's OK to start whenseveral people are seated and served.
8、All things not having to do with food should remain off the table: keys, clutch bags, cigarettepacks, sunglasses, BlackBerrys.
9、Don't snap your napkin open or unfurl it showily like it's an Olympic flag.
10、If you prefer not to have wine while dining out, don't turn your glass upside down, and don'tmake a big deal of saying you don't drink. Simply place your fingertips on the rim of the glassand say "Not today, thanks."
11、If you're eating and want to take a sip, dab your mouth with your napkin to avoid stainingthe rim of the glass.
12、Grabbing a bowl of salad or a saltshaker as it's being passed to someone who asked for it isthe equivalent of cutting in line: greedy and rude.
13、On the subject of passing: Dishes go counterclockwise, but if someone to your left asks forsomething, you can hand it directly to him.
14、When you excuse yourself to go to the restroom, just say "Please excuse me."
15、When out with friends or family - even at a fancy restaurant - it's OK to ask for yourleftovers to be wrapped. But don't do it at a business lunch or dinner.
16、Most hostesses want you to relax or prefer to follow their own system of organization by themselves.
17、If everyone is having a good time, would it be rude of the hosts to encourage their guests to remain longer?
18、The custom of taking wine as a gift to a small dinner party is becoming customary.
19、Which is better-to send flowers to my hosts before or after a party?
20、Cover your mouth and nose with your handkerchief, or if you have no handkerchief, with your napkin.
21、When dining "family style" do you use the same table manners as when dining in a restaurant?
22、Could you tell me a little about dining etiquette?
23、There are so many differences between Eastern and Western table manners.
24、For westerners, putting lots of food on the plate is very rude.
25、Chinese people hope guests to eat up food.
26、We will not ask them to eat more.
27、Souping soup loudly is very rude.
28、Making too much noisy when eating can make people offended.
29、There is also difference about the position of tableware.
30、Chinese dinner has some special features.
31、It's really interesting!
32、In China，rushing to pay as guest would be considered hypocritical.
33、Eastern and Western table manners are really different!
34、Remember not to use the napkin to wipe noses of faces when eating with important customers.
35、Both hands to take their own food after food, must use his hands. A baked potato should take to become left-handed fork, spoon holders the right to food into their own folder after. Do not use a fork to fork food to the wrong sites, it is extremely impolite.
36、Soup and bread to eat hot soup will not be blowing his mouth. The first scoop of the key role of the "thermometer", the general should not be too full scoop. Spoon to scoop from the inside out, the remaining soup can be set soup gently tilt outward. Bread to eat, we do not take up the entire bread mouth bit to eat. In line with the etiquette is to eat a small piece of bread torn by hand and then slowly mouth.
37、don't stick your chopsticks upright in the bowl. Instead, they put in the dish for you. This is the important figure in the holy to their death, containing sand bowl or rice have incense sticks the two sticks in it. So honest if you stick your chopsticks in the job, it is like this holy place and is equivalent to the desire to die in person on the table!The spout of the teapot
38、that is not any havoc. It is rude to set down the teapot where to vent is an important character. Havoc vent should always is straight to where nobody is sitting, usually from a table. Just export
39、don't light on your bowl with your chopsticks. Beggars tap on their bowling, so this is not polite. Also, in restaurants, if food is too slow to reach the people will play their light. If you are in the bowling house, it was someone like insult cook.
40、Keep your hands in sight. It is not good manners to rest them on your lap. Keep yourelbows off the table.
41、What else to watch: Leave some food on your plate to show that the host has given you enoughto eat. Or the host will ask if you'd like to have a second helping. It's polite to mop up excesssauce or gravy with bread.
42、don't ask for salt and pepper if it is not on the table. "Asking for any kind ofseasoning or condiment" will offend the cook.
43、Place your napkin on your lap, and don't eat with your fingers. Don'tswitch cutlery between hands.
44、never discuss money or religion over dinner. Going Dutch is considered "theheight of unsophistication".
45、In France, a meal is like a ceremony. People relish it and make it's a specialoccasion.
46、In contrast to the etiquette in Russia, it's considered good manners tofinish everything on your plate.
47、People often cut bread directly on a table cloth rather than on a plate. Tear your bread intobite-sized pieces before eating. Taking a bite from the whole piece is very impolite。
48、Whenever you catch the eye of someone who's eating, even a stranger, it's goodmanners to say "provecho"， which means enjoy.
49、In Mexico, dining is more than a meal. It's a social occasion - lunches are rarelyquick and suppers can last for hours.
50、And you must say "enjoy your meal" before you leave the table。
十条重要的西方餐桌礼仪(英文)
1.When helping a woman pull her chair to the table, hold it and guide it. Don't shove it against the back of her legs.
1.为女士拉椅子的时候，要把椅子抓住了，留个角度，让女士好走过去。别让椅子腿碰到女士的腿。
2.If you're seated at a table with eight or fewer guests, wait for everyone to be served and for the hostess to begin eating before you dig in. At a long banquet table, it's OK to start when several people are seated and served.
2.如果就餐人数少于等于八人，那就等所有人都坐好了，女主人开始用餐了，再开动。如果是长餐桌，那么只要有几个人入座进食了，你也就可以开始吃了。
3.All things not having to do with food should remain off the table: keys, clutch bags, cigarette packs, sunglasses, BlackBerrys.
3.一切和食物无关的东西都不应该出现在餐桌上，包括：钥匙、手袋、烟盒、墨镜还有手机。
4.Don't snap your napkin open or unfurl it showily like it's an Olympic flag.
4.不要把餐巾展开，看起来像是在展示奥林匹克会旗一样。
5.If you prefer not to have wine while dining out, don't turn your glass upside down, and don't make a big deal of saying you don't drink. Simply place your fingertips on the rim of the glass and say "Not today, thanks."
5.如果在用餐时你不想饮酒，不要把酒杯倒过来放，也不要很在意地宣布你不喝酒。只要轻轻地把指尖放在酒杯边缘，说一句"今天不喝，谢谢。"
6.If you're eating and want to take a sip, dab your mouth with your napkin to avoid staining the rim of the glass.
6.如果你在吃东西的时候，想要啜一口饮料的话，那就先拿餐巾把嘴擦干净了，以免在杯子边缘留下残迹。
7.Grabbing a bowl of salad or a saltshaker as it's being passed to someone who asked for it is the equivalent of cutting in line: greedy and rude.
7.把原本要递给别人的沙拉碗或者盐瓶从半道截下来，这基本上就等于在说：你是个既贪婪又粗鲁的人
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8.On the subject of passing: Dishes go counterclockwise, but if someone to your left asks for something, you can hand it directly to him.
8.餐桌上要传递东西的`话，规则一般是逆时针传递。不过，如果坐在你左手边的人想要什么东西时，你也可以直接递给他。
9.When you excuse yourself to go to the restroom, just say "Please excuse me."
9.想去洗手间的时候，只要说"失陪一下"就可以了。
10.When out with friends or family - even at a fancy restaurant - it's OK to ask for your leftovers to be wrapped. But don't do it at a business lunch or dinner.
10.和朋友家人一起外出用餐，即使是到很高级的餐馆，也可以要求把吃剩下的食物打包带走。不过，如果是在商务宴会上，就不要这么做了。
