Cheese course order in Vancouver restaurants.

[Chef Metcalf]

This question just came up on another thread and I'm wondering what order is usually used in Vancouver restaurants.

Do you serve your dessert course before or after the cheese course?

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[winegeek]

Most places that I've been to have served a cheese course followed by na desser course. I like to finish with something sweet along with a glass of Moscato d'asti Nivole.

[Foodie in Vancouver]

I know you were asking the restaurants but for what it's worth, when I have a cheese course at the end of the meal it is instead of a dessert. I think it is a perfect way to end a meal. But then, I don't really like dessert (unless it is GBP).

[butter]

If you choose the tasting menu at the restaurant I work at, the cheese course comes before the dessert course. A la carte, cheese plates are available anytime.

[kurtisk]

This sounds like such a cop-out, but we do it however it's ordered.

In saying that, 100% of people have (thus-far) ordered the cheese course first...

k.

Edited August 17, 2005 by kurtisk (log)

[jamiemaw]

Funny. Because I've probably got a few laps on some of you, growing up in Vancouver after the war (Crimean), you would never see the cheese course before the pudding. Didn't happen, in restaurants or in homes. That's because the men needed something to do such as swill Port after the women retired to the (with) drawing room. It was still--in those days at least--British Columbia after all.

Edited August 17, 2005 by jamiemaw (log)

[Chef Metcalf]

I have either shown my age, my ignorance or committed a terrible culinary faux paus!

Oh, the shame.

[jamiemaw]

I have either shown my age, my ignorance or committed a terrible culinary faux paus!

Oh, the shame.

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Yeah, you're too young! When French restaurants began to assert themselves in the early seventies (almost a decade after the repeal of the liquor legislation) we began to see cheese being served before the sweet. Now, as many have mentioned, it's almost become a dessert replacement.

[Chef Metcalf]

I have either shown my age, my ignorance or committed a terrible culinary faux paus!

Oh, the shame.

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Yeah, you're too young! When French restaurants began to assert themselves in the early seventies (almost a decade after the repeal of the liquor legislation) we began to see cheese being served before the sweet. Now, as many have mentioned, it's almost become a dessert replacement.

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Of course you're right Jamie....I wasn't even born yet in the seventies!

So that just means I really haven't been paying attention.

And neither have you come to think of it.

You edited my New Year's menu with the obvious faux paus on it and didn't inform me!

It's all Maw's fault...that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[annanstee]

Jamie is right- I think the traditional order was sweet then savoury- at least in England and her colonies.

[jamiemaw]

Jamie is right- I think the traditional order was sweet then savoury- at least in England and her colonies.

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Any old Port in a storm. Or as my grandfather said of rejoining the ladies quickly, "Any old sport in the dorm."

  Chef Metcalf  You edited my New Year's menu with the obvious faux paus on it and didn't inform me!

Merely thought you were going Continental. Or at least Town Car.

Edited August 17, 2005 by jamiemaw (log)

[SBonner]

Growing up in London I remember my grandparents and parents serving the pudding first then finish off the meal with cheese. Cheese or pudding first? I love them both so I'm indifferent as long as the result ends up with me having both. Just last night we finished off our evening with a nice Aussi sticky with some store bought rice pudding and then during a dvd had some cheese with a small glass of fino sherry.

Cheers,

Stephen