Abstract: A flatware or culinary spoon has a bowl with a rearwardly extending handle and a forwardly extending flat tip end area portion. The remainder of the bowl merges with the flat tip end area portion and provides a receptacle for material directed thereinto by the flat tip end area portion. Convexly arcuate side edges of the bowl merge with and terminate a substantial distance rearwardly from the forward portion of the flat tip end area portion, so that the sides of the flat tip portion forwardly from the side edges are free from interference from the forward ends of the side edges. The front edge of the flat tip end area portion may be convexly curvate, straight edge, indented or multi-lobed.