Restaurant ideas I've stolen:

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marilynfl

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Cobalt blue wine bottles, cleaned and filled with chilled water, brought and left at the breakfast table for refills.

Thick-cut toasted bread, cut into four squares, then stacked with just the tips of one corner overlapping, so it looks like a origami lotus flower.

4" Glow sticks as a martini swizzle stick (I checked this..the exterior plastic is food grade)

Small pieces of chocolate on the coffee saucer.

Real maple syrup with a tab of butter warmed in a tiny pitcher.

Bacon spiral-wrapped on a bread stick and baked.

Lemon halves scooped out and filled with sorbet.

Yin/Yang symbol made with two different soups.

 
These where great, Marilyn!

I have learned that the napkin can be folded into different shapes and arranged in different places, like by the plate, on the plate, in the glass, over the chair back......

I have also stolen the idea that when the bread comes out (from now on it will be Lotus shaped *LOL*) it's great to have small jars of different kinds of herb butter. If the jars are good looking they be organized in a group in the middle of the table so they start off as a center piece on the table.

 
and here's a kitchy recipe for 'lemon freeze', a gorgeous creamy lemon ice cream

that the author suggests serving in scooped out lemons. i like this recipe because you don't need an icecream maker, just a freezer and a few hours.

1.5 cups whipping cream (not whipped)
1/2 cup milk
zest of 1 lemon (i do it pretty fine)
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
1 cup granulate sugar (i use a bit less)

measure everything into a bowl and stir to dissolve the sugar. place in freezer (covered) for 2-3 hours. if you're serving in lemon shells, she suggests cutting the bottoms so they'll stand evenly and says this quantity will fill 8 half shells.

 
Ah, memories....when I was a waiter in a hotel, along with appeasing cranky conventioneers....

(someday I'll write a book about the Tupperware Convention) we were each obliged to fold 50 "Bird of Paradise" napkins a night. They were identical to the "cock's comb," but since Bird of Paradise grows like a weed here in SoCal we had our own regional name for it. Thanks, Nan, I'd forgotten how to do them. I must have repressed the memory along with the rest of that particular job, LOL.

 
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