silver service

British  

noun

1. (in restaurants) a style of serving food using a spoon and fork in one hand like a pair of tongs

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Example Sentences

His mother, who is white, had started working as a PA for the parish’s landowner, and he took up a role at a silver service catering company.

From The Guardian

Bettys, which specialised in high quality cakes with a silver service, quickly became a hit and has since opened five more traditionally-themed tearooms, all in Yorkshire.

From BBC

Were they allowed to simply gather dust, untouched in the Burrell loft next to the Christmas decorations and every back issue of Silver Service Enthusiast?

From The Guardian

On a more ambitious scale, surplus income might procure a complete gilt silver service for Mass in a private chapel or a large and astounding centerpiece called a deser, fit for banquets and made of small copies of temples from the Roman Forum in assorted marbles, semiprecious stones and antique cameos — each more gorgeous than the next.

From New York Times

I also learned silver service one summer, and still astonish associates with how many plates I can carry at once.

From The Guardian