# Small plates

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{{prose|date=June 2021}}}}[[File:Tapas en El Raval.jpg|thumb|Tapas served in [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona), Spain]]
[[File:Meze Lido Restaurant Adalar.JPG|thumb|[Meze](/source/Meze) on display in [Adalar](/source/Adalar), Turkey]]
'''Small plates''' is a manner of [dining](/source/dining) that became popular in US food service after 2000. ''Small plates'' may refer either to small dishes resembling [appetizers](/source/appetizers) which are ordered [à la carte](/source/%C3%A0_la_carte) and often shared, such as [tapas](/source/tapas), or to the small [courses](/source/Course_(dining)) served as part of a more formal meal.

==Types==
Some types of small plates which have influenced the modern US concept are:

* [Tapas](/source/Tapas), a wide variety of [appetizers](/source/appetizers) in [Spanish cuisine](/source/Spanish_cuisine)
* [Mezze](/source/Mezze), a wide variety of [appetizers](/source/appetizers) in [Turkish cuisine](/source/Turkish_cuisine), and sometimes in [Greek cuisine](/source/Greek_cuisine)
* [Antipasti](/source/Antipasti) and [cicchetti](/source/Cicchetti_(food)) in [Italian cuisine](/source/Italian_cuisine)
* [Banchan](/source/Banchan), in [Korean cuisine](/source/Korean_cuisine)
* [Sozai](/source/Sozai) ({{langx|ja|[惣菜](/source/%3Aja%3A%E6%83%A3%E8%8F%9C)}}), the small and usually shared dishes served at an [izakaya](/source/izakaya), a [Japanese](/source/Japanese_cuisine) pub
* The [pu pu platter](/source/pu_pu_platter) of [Hawaiian cuisine](/source/Cuisine_of_Hawaii)
* [Zakuski](/source/Zakuski) in [Russian cuisine](/source/Russian_cuisine)
* [Side dish](/source/Side_dish) ({{lang-zh|[小菜](/source/%3Azh%3A%E5%B0%8F%E8%8F%9C), which literally translates to "small dish"}}) in [Chinese cuisine](/source/Chinese_cuisine)

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==References==
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*[https://www.schwabendelikatessen.de/ Delikatessen aus dem Schwabenland]

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