Victorians set down rules for formal dining, and invented the fish knife.
There were a round dozen sitting down to dinner, counting children, and more out in what had been the rarely used formal dining room.
You usually don't have formal dining or living rooms.
The Bar offers less formal dining and a lighter menu.
Formal toasts are the heart of the formal dining in.
"Sometimes, we even have breakfast out here in the formal dining," he told Jamilla.
When visitors entered this room, they had an immediate choice between two smaller rooms: to their left was a formal dining.
In back is a slightly more formal dining room.
But they doubted her ability to pass for human through a prolonged evening of bar- gaining and formal dining.
Classical music in the background helps set the stage for formal dining.