The Best Foods to Pair with Champagne

For many of us, sparkling wine is more of a pre-food cocktail than a pairing wine. Sure, you might enjoy it with hors d’oeuvres at a party or while sidling up to a raw bar—and we wouldn’t turn down a glass with dessert—but when it comes to the main event, all to often, champagne gets shuffled aside in favor of its flat cousins.

But there’s no reason to relegate your favorite bubbly to the beginning and end of the meal—not when champagne is a sommelier favorite for it’s ability to play well with all sorts of foods. Whether you’re looking for inspiration for a party menu or resolving to bring more bubbly into your everyday life in 2020, these are the pairings that wine pros say deserve a spot next to your champagne flute.

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