{{Short description|Manner of dining}} {{Multiple issues|{{more sources|date=June 2021}} {{one source|date=June 2021}} {{prose|date=June 2021}}}}[[File:Tapas en El Raval.jpg|thumb|Tapas served in Barcelona, Spain]] [[File:Meze Lido Restaurant Adalar.JPG|thumb|Meze on display in Adalar, Turkey]] '''Small plates''' is a manner of dining that became popular in US food service after 2000. ''Small plates'' may refer either to small dishes resembling appetizers which are ordered à la carte and often shared, such as tapas, or to the small courses served as part of a more formal meal.
==Types== Some types of small plates which have influenced the modern US concept are:
* Tapas, a wide variety of appetizers in Spanish cuisine * Mezze, a wide variety of appetizers in Turkish cuisine, and sometimes in Greek cuisine * Antipasti and cicchetti in Italian cuisine * Banchan, in Korean cuisine * Sozai ({{langx|ja|惣菜}}), the small and usually shared dishes served at an izakaya, a Japanese pub * The pu pu platter of Hawaiian cuisine * Zakuski in Russian cuisine * Side dish ({{lang-zh|小菜, which literally translates to "small dish"}}) in Chinese cuisine
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==References== {{Reflist}} *{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKGEB-baihYrSc4xNESP4og|title=Miniature Cooking PT|website=YouTube|language=en|access-date=2020-03-09}} *[https://www.schwabendelikatessen.de/ Delikatessen aus dem Schwabenland]
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