Fork and knife with plate

A plate with a fork and knife on either side. It means a meal, dinner time and 'let's eat'.

Restaurant bookings and dinner invites use it. In slang, saying someone 'ate' means they did something brilliantly, and 🍽️ backs that up. It also says 'dinner is served'.

Different from 🍴, which shows just the cutlery.

Facts

Fork and knife with plate 🍽️ is an emoji in the food and drink category, under dishware. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :plate_with_cutlery: or :fork_and_knife_with_plate:. People also look for it with words like “cooking”, “dinner”, “eat”, or “fork”.

Timeline

1. 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

food & drink · Unicode 7.0