Most people eat stew with a spoon so that they can scoop of the Juices as well as the meat easily in the stew.
You could use both a fork and a spoon to eat the stew which is what I do when eating stew.
I use a spoon at first when eating my stew so that I can get the juices as well as the meat onto the spoon and eat with the spoon until I get near the bottom of the stew.
Then I grab any larger chunks of meat with the fork and also I drink the broth from the stew as well which is very good.
A nice hot stew is a great meal when it's cold outside and you need to warm up.
The stew is pretty filling and makes the meat go a lot farther.