18cm Soup Plate
Yes, you can. Soup is a great thing to serve at a dinner party, and we're not just talking soup shots as cute appetizers. We're going main course here. It can be an impressive meal that's fully satisfying and relatively inexpensive. But we have a few tips...

If you want to serve soup to guests, you need to think ahead about the other things surrounding the meal, plus what's going in your soup to begin with. Making it a star takes more than just a pretty garnish.

Consider the size of your bowls. Don't use huge ones; a ladle of soup may look skimpy in it, even if it's not. Use cereal-sized bowls, and don't worry about the place settings looking lame. Put the bowls on a larger plate, with a big cloth napkin folded underneath it to cozy things up.
• Serve the soup from a pretty pot. Even if you don't own a soup tureen, maybe you have a pretty ceramic pot that will look nice on the table. This doesn't work for all soups; some may have complicated garnishes that need to be arranged individually. But bringing a big bowl to the table, family-style, looks abundant.