hier vind je een omschrijving:

"Als huwelijksorganisator zie ik een groeiende trend voor losse sfeervolle feesten. De meeste mensen opteren dan voor een walking dinner, een combinatie tussen buffet en vrij kunnen rondlopen.

Het walking dinner is oorspronkelijk gegroeid vanuit de gedachte dat aanschuiven aan een buffet te lang duurde. Daarom werden her en der identieke buffetten opgezet, die dan later evolueerde naar verschillende en nog meer buffetjes of kraampjes.

Denk nu niet dat een walking dinner goedkoper uitkomt dan een buffet. Voor de feestzaal/caterer is het een zeer arbeidsintensieve klus en arbeid is duur. Ik raad je aan om een all-in prijs te bekomen zodat je weet waar je staat."

Nu nog eenv ertaling vinden...

succes!

Serge L.

Could it be one of those things when a group of people organize a "rotating" meal and all start at one person's house for an apéritif, then go to another's for a starter, on to a third house for main, then elsewhere for dessert??? I know these things have a name, but can't think of it.

I have not heard of this expression in Dutch and the hits on Google mainly refer to Belgian websites.
It appears that a walking dinner is a kind of buffet (lopend buffet as we call this in the Netherlands)

HTH

You get a guided visit as you stroll around the town and you stop and dine in different restaurants, it would seem a different restaurant for each course on some of the sites. They have concocted the name Walking Dinner-up to you if you want to keep it or change it.

[PDF] REGISTRATION FORM
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
Page 1. Please tick the category you prefer: O IBIS Centre Ste-Catherine, very close (2 min.) to “La Tentation” (conference walking dinner), 15 min. ...
europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/ equ_opp/events/patternsreg.pdf

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vizit, walking tours ghent in english
... Walking dinner through Ghent is A walking tour through culinary Ghent. During this tour we guide you to 4 different restaurants. ...
www.vizit.be/inhoud/english.htm - 13k

After reading Kate's explanation, I'd call it a "restaurant crawl" - like a pub crawl, where you go to different restaurants for different courses, hence a "walking" dinner where you walk between courses!

A Dinner Buffet is known in Dutch as a 'Lopend buffet'.

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Walking Buffet is a literal translation of \'lopend buffet\'

The dinner buffet is perhaps the most practical and congenial way in which to care for your guests. It can be either country casual or very formal, as you wish. It provides a more relaxed method of dining, but also provides for you a more varied menu format than a plated, full service meal. In developing a buffet which closely matches your requirements for quality, menu, and cost, we have devised the following categories to help you to choose the price and service needs which suit you the best.
http://www.mustachepetes.com/catering/dinner_buffet.htm

A walking dinner in the Netherlands is a meal which is often eaten in three different restaurants with a short walk (often through the historic heart of the city) being taken between courses (often there is a guide)
A running dinner is a meal whose courses, in this case three, are each eaten in a different location (often organised by clubs with a restricted group playing host and the guests moving around for each course. Running dinners are often combined so the company is in fact exchanged at each course as well.

 

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This is a very Dutch phenomenon and as running dinners first originated in the States where everyone used a car I think I would still use walking dinner as the idea is very similar to the running dinner - just a bit more environmentally friendly -and at least it\'s not done on bicycles which would be extremely Dutch.

This is the type of dinner where you have your starter in one house, the main course in another and desert in a third. It's good fun because you get a full meal but only have to cook one course!

I don't know if this fits in with your translation, but I hope it helps. Good luck!

All in one, Ian. I assume you understand Dutch?

Wandelbuffet
Printbare versie (Publisher bestand). Wandelbuffet 35,00 euro incl.BTW/pers.
Het wandelbuffet is een informele staande maaltijd waarbij ...
www.elewijtcenter.be/nl/wandelbuffet.htm



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To Rowan (couldn\'t comment to your reply):
A walking dinner is a buffet dinner whereby -after you went and picked up your food at the buffet- you walk around while eating.
Usually there are only few tables and chairs available.

Sometimes very difficult, if you ask me.
If need be, you can even get special clips in order to attach your cup/drink to your plate. Horrible.

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Anyway, that\'s what it means over here in Belgium.
\'Stand-up dinner\' (re: writeaway\'s comment) would in fact be a good alternative.

... WANDELBUFFET (WALKING DINNER) Voorgerecht Buffetjes bestaande uit Zeeuwse oesters - kroonjuweel van zalm met waterkers - bavarois van rivierkreeftjes ...
www.passim.be/kasteel/gastronomie/ lunchfeestbanket/walking.html

MCS Newspage... De avond wordt afgesloten met een wandelbuffet waar de aanwezigen mekaar ... Un walking dinner clôturera la soirée pendant laquelle les présents pourront se ...
www.mcs.be/enews/eNews 2002-12.htm


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To Chris:

\'Wandelbuffet\' and \'staand buffet\' are the same.
So if you\'d need a \'translation\' of walking dinner, stand-up dinner (cfr. writeaway) or standing buffet (cfr your late new answer) would be OK

You serve yourself from a table on which all kinds of (hopefully) delicious dishes are presented. Then you can either walk around with plate in hand, or sit down. In Dutch the term "lopend buffet" (to be translated as "walking buffet") is often (wrongly) used nowadays.
I have never seen the buffet table walk.

Many hits on Google.