- A table for one person/two people, please.
- Una mesa para una persona/dos personas, por favor. (OO-nah MAY-sah pah-rah OO-nah pehr-SOH-nah / dohss pehr-SOH-nahs pohr fah- BOHR)
- Can I look at the menu, please?
- ¿Puedo ver el menú, por favor? (PWAY-doh behr ehl meh-NOO pohr fah-BOHR?)
- Can I look in the kitchen?
- ¿Puedo entrar a la cocina?
- Is there a house specialty?
- ¿Hay alguna especialidad de la casa?
- Is there a local specialty?
- ¿Hay alguna especialidad regional/de la zona?
- I'm a vegetarian.
- Soy vegetariano/a.
- I don't eat pork.
- No como cerdo.
- I only eat kosher food.
- Sólo como comida kosher. (In a restaurant they will stare at you, since "kosher" is as Spanish as "empanada" is English.)
- Can you make it "lite", please? (less oil/butter/lard)
- ¿Puede poner poca aceite/poca mantequilla/poca grasa?
- fixed-price meal
- menú del día
- a la carte
- a la carta
- breakfast
- desayuno
- lunch
- comida (Spain, Mexico), almuerzo (South America)
- supper
- cena (everywhere), comida (South America)
- I want _____.
- Quiero _____.
- I want a dish containing _____.
- Quisiera un plato que lleve _____.
- chicken
- pollo. (POH-yoh)
- beef
- ternera (tehr-NEH-rah), vacuno (bah-KOO-noh), res (rehss)
- fish
- pescado (pehs-KAH-doh)
- ham
- jamón (hah-MOHN)
- sausage
- salchicha (sahl-CHEE-chah), vienesa (byeh-NAY-sah)
- cheese
- queso
- eggs
- huevos
- salad
- ensalada
- (fresh) vegetables
- verdura (fresca)
- (fresh) fruit
- fruta (fresca)
- bread
- pan
- toast
- tostada
- noodles
- fideos
- rice
- arroz
- beans
- alubias , porotos, frijoles, judías, habichuelas
- May I have a glass of _____?
- ¿Me puede poner/traer un vaso de _____?
- May I have a cup of _____?
- ¿Me puede poner/traer una taza de _____?
- May I have a bottle of _____?
- ¿Me puede poner/traer una botella de _____?
- coffee
- café
- tea (drink)
- té
- juice
- zumo , jugo
- water
- agua
- (bubbly) water
- agua con gas (if you say agua, is without gas); Agua mineral is bottled water with gas, unless you ask for agua mineral sin gas.
- beer
- cerveza
- red/white wine
- vino tinto/blanco
- May I have some _____?
- ¿Me puede dar un poco de _____?
- salt
- sal
- black pepper
- pimienta
- butter
- mantequilla , manteca (in Argentina)
- Excuse me, waiter? (getting attention of server'): ¡camarero!, ¡mesero! (preferred)
- I'm finished.
- He acabado, terminé (The first phrase can refer to the finishing of a completely unrelated physiological activity)
- It was delicious.
- Estaba delicioso.
- Please clear the plates.
- Puede llevarse los platos.
- The check, please.
- La cuenta, por favor.
Note that in Chile you must ask for the check. A
gringo was known to have waited until 2 in the morning because he was too shy to ask :-)
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