Travel English: Restaurant Phrases You Must Know (Order & Pay Easily)

Описание: 🎧 English Time | English at a Restaurant (Jim & Anna)

👋 Welcome to English Time — your channel for fun, clear, and practical English conversations that help you speak naturally in real life.

🍽️ In this episode, Jim & Anna teach you English at a Restaurant step by step — so you can order food confidently, ask polite questions, handle mistakes smoothly, and pay the bill without stress.
If you’ve ever walked into a restaurant and suddenly forgot simple words like “water,” “menu,” or “bill,” this lesson is for you. You’ll learn natural phrases that native speakers use every day, plus simple conversation patterns you can reuse in any café or restaurant.

✅ This episode focuses on real-world speaking skills: ordering drinks, asking for recommendations, talking about ingredients, requesting changes politely, fixing problems, and splitting the bill — all through an easy, memorable conversation style.

✅ What You Will Learn

🍴 How to ask for a table and talk to the host
🥤 How to order drinks naturally (still vs sparkling, iced tea, coffee, etc.)
📋 How to ask for the menu and understand common restaurant questions
⭐ How to ask for recommendations and popular dishes
🌶️ How to ask about ingredients, allergies, and spice level (Is it spicy? Does it have…?)
🧾 How to order clearly: “I’ll have…” / “Could I get…?” / “I’d like…”
🙏 How to make polite requests and changes: “Can I get it without…?”
⚠️ How to fix problems politely (wrong order, cold food, missing item)
💳 How to pay: asking for the bill, paying by card, splitting the bill

🗣️ Key Phrases You’ll Practice

👋 Getting a table

“Table for two, please.”

“Do you have a table for two?”

“How long is the wait?”

“We have a reservation under…”

🥤 Ordering drinks

“Can I get a glass of water, please?”

“Still or sparkling?”

“I’ll have an iced tea, please.”

🍔 Ordering food

“Could I get the…?”

“I’d like the…”

“What do you recommend?”

“What’s your most popular dish?”

“Can I get it without onions?”

“Is this spicy? / “Can you make it less spicy?”

⚠️ Fixing problems politely

“Excuse me, I think there’s been a mistake.”

“Sorry, I ordered…, but this is…”

“Would it be possible to…?”

💳 Paying

“Could we get the bill, please?”

“Can we pay by card?”

“Can we split the bill?”

“Is service included?”

🏆 Homework (Speaking Practice Challenge)

📌 Practice this restaurant conversation today:

1️⃣ Say: Table for two → Drinks → Food order → One follow-up question → Bill
2️⃣ Record yourself for 30 seconds
3️⃣ Write your order in the comments using this sentence:
✅ “I’ll have the ___, please.”

🔥 Do this daily and you’ll improve your English speaking confidence fast.

🎓 Perfect For

✅ Beginners and intermediate learners
✅ ESL students who want real English conversation practice
✅ Travelers who need restaurant English
✅ Anyone learning spoken English for daily life

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