Food and drink in Spanish

Food vocabulary is some of the most useful you'll ever learn — you'll use it every single day on a trip. Here are the staples, plus the one phrase that turns the list into an order.

Drinks

Food

The phrase that puts it to use

To order, reach for quería ("I'd like") or para mí ("for me"): Quería un café, por favor. (I'd like a coffee, please.) Para mí, el pollo. (For me, the chicken.) Add la cuenta, por favor to ask for the bill.

In Spain, el zumo is juice; in Latin America you'll more often hear el jugo.

Make them stick by saying them

Food words stick when you order with them. Navoq has you use these in real café and restaurant sentences out loud, with pronunciation feedback — so you're ready at the counter.