Order at a café in Spanish
Practise a short café order and ask for the bill. Learn to ask for a coffee, add por favor and gracias, and pay without switching back to English.
A simple order
Un café con leche, por favor. — ¿Algo más? — No, gracias. The first sentence orders a coffee with milk. Algo más asks whether you want anything else. No, gracias means No, thank you; por favor means please.
Make it your own
Replace un café con leche with un té (a tea) or una botella de agua (a bottle of water). Notice una with botella and un with café or té. To ask for the bill, say La cuenta, por favor.
Answer a follow-up question
¿Para tomar aquí o para llevar? means For here or to take away? Reply Para tomar aquí, por favor or Para llevar, por favor. If you want something without sugar, add sin azúcar. If an ingredient matters, ask what the drink contains instead of assuming every café prepares it the same way.
Try it
Order a bottle of water politely. Then decline anything else and ask for the bill.
Check your answer
Una botella de agua, por favor. No, gracias. La cuenta, por favor.
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