Ordering food at the restaurant (Ordenar comida en el restaurante)

Hola! Today’s lesson will be about the vocabulary needed for ordering food at the restaurant in Spanish. The lesson includes a list of words and phrases for describing food at the restaurant in Spanish and asking the waiter to recommend you some. In addition, this lesson will introduce the names of some common Latin American dishes in Spanish.

Common questions and phrases at the restaurant in Spanish

When you are the restaurant, the first words you will need are Spanish greetings and farewells like “Hola” and “Mucho gusto”. There are not the only phrases you will need at the restaurant in Spanish though. We have divided them in three different sections.

Describing food in Spanish and a restaurant’s menu:

Most of the time, people use adjectives to describe food such as:

“Delicioso”, “Sabroso” (delicious or tasty).

“Feo” (not delicious in this case).

“picante” (spicy).

“Juicy” (Jugoso)

“creamy” (cremoso)

“Smelly” (aromático)

“dulce” (sweet).

 “salado” (salty).

“bitter” (amargo)

“Frozen”(congelado)

A basic sentence describing food in Spanish will also use the verbs SER and ESTAR, e.g.  “El filete está delicioso” and “La comida es sabrosa en ese lugar”.

Vocabulary over view:

“Los restaurantes” sometimes have their menu (El menú) in both English and Spanish, but it is always better to know what to order and how to order it. Here is a very simple restaurant menu in Spanish. Also, real menus will include prices (precios) and many other dishes too, as well as special offers, some nouns for the restaurant in Spanish you may need are:

“mesa” (table).

 “reservación” (book).

“comida”  (food).

 “plato principal” (main dish).

 “entrada” (appetizer).

 “postre” (dessert).

“menu” (menú)

“prices”(precios)

Common questions customers ask at the restaurant in Spanish:

As customers, we will always come up with lots of different questions to ask the waiter or any other person at the restaurant in Spanish. Listen to some of the most common questions customers ask and their possible answers:

Buenos días, una mesa para dos (personas) por favor.

Good morning, a table for two (persons) please.

Good night, can you show me the menú please?

Buenas noches me puede mostrar el menú por favor?

What do you recommend me?

Qué me recomienda?

I will ask for this dish.

Pediré este platillo

Can you bring me the bill?

Me puede traer la cuenta?

Things that the waiter will say at the restaurant in Spanish

On the other hand, the waiter (el mesero) or the waitress (la mesera) will usually welcome you with a greeting like:

“Bienvenido, pase adelante por favor” (welcome, please come in)

“Bienvenido, ¿Tiene reservación?  (good morning, do you have a reservation?

Once you are inside the restaurant, the waiter will say or ask these things:

Por favor tome asiento.

Please take a seat.

Permítame llevarlo a su mesa.

Let me walk you to your table.

Aquí tiene el menú.

Here is the menú.

¿Le gustaría ordenar?

Would you like  to order?

¿Qué le gustaría tomar?

What do you like to drink?

Le recomiendo probar el filete de cerdo a la plancha.

I recommend you to try the grilled pork steak.

¡Buen provecho!

 Enjoy!

Aquí tiene la cuenta.

Here is the bill/check.

Here are some exercises on the subject:
And you can download it Here