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Ordering food in a restaurant

Below are phrases you can use when ordering food in a restaurant.

Waiter

Customer

May I take your order?

What do you recommend?

What would you like?

What is the speciality today?

What do you want?

What exactly is that?

I suggest…

To start… / as a starter…

I recommend…

How much is that?

Would you like…with that?

What’s the soup of the day?

It’s a local dish.

To follow… / as a main course…

It’s very spicy.

I’ll have… / I’d like…

It’s made of…

For dessert…

How is everything here?

That’s not what I ordered.

May I take your plate?

Can you change it?

Would you like coffee or dessert?

May I have the check, please?