Lesson overview
Learn how to order food in Mexican Spanish at a café or a restaurant or anywhere you want to go in Mexico. This lesson covers all the essential phrases you'll need for a friendly dialogue with your waiter or waitress. You can even learn phrases for asking your friends what they would like so that you can order for the whole table.
Dive into this lesson now and in 5 minutes you'll come out the other side feeling like you travelled to Mexico and back.
15 words/phrases to learn
¿están listos?
are you ready? (plural formal)
ordenar
to order; to tidy up
¿están listos para ordenar?
are you ready to order?
uno
one
dos
two; 2
todo (toda)
all; everything
serían dos tacos con todo
we'd like two tacos with everything
tres
three; 3
el pozole
the stew
nos gustarían tres pozoles
we'd like three stews
tomar
to take; to drink
¿gustan algo de tomar?
anything to drink?
cuatro
four; 4
cinco
five; 5
danos cinco chelas
we would like five beers
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