to you about some things which you can say in a restaurant. I've been spending

some time in Thailand, as some of you may know. And I've been eating in restaurants

every day, three times a day, because the food is very cheap here and there's

definitely some good grammar which you can practice for any situation you might

have in a restaurant

So first of all we're going to start with with booking a table:

usually we will phone up; or give the restaurant a call on our phones to ask

whether they have any tables available for the evening or whatever time is we

want to go

and this is obviously to avoid disappointment in case there's no tables

available when you turn up at the restaurant

so for booking a table, obviously the the person in the restaurant will answer

the phone and usually a good thing to ask

first of all is "Hi I would like to make a booking" or "I would like to book a

table for 8pm" and then they will usually check in their book obviously

and see whether there's any tables available

they might ask you how many people is the table for so you could say "a table

for two please"

or however many people you're going with if you're on your own

you can say "it's just me" so now you've booked your table and it's come to the

evening when you're going to your restaurant

so now it there's some important vocabulary and grammar which you can use

in the restaurant

it can be quite hard if you can't speak the same language as the person who is

serving you

because it just makes life a lot easier if you can speak the same language

so first of all some good questions are

"can I see the menu please?" which just means can I have a look at the menu and

see what's in the list of food that you have you can also ask if you can see the

wine list you can say "can I see the wine list please?"

if you fancy having a glass of wine with your meal

another one is "what is the dish of the day?" a lot of restaurants have a a dish

of the day which is a special that they've put on for that particular day

sometimes I like to ask the waiter or waitress

"what do you recommend?" and this is just to see what they think is good on the

menu

they should have tried it if they if they they're serving you in this

restaurant so you can ask them what do you recommend

and then they will obviously tell you something from the menu which they enjoy

and now it can be a bit complicated

if you have allergies if you're allergic to something a lot of people are

allergic to nuts

so sometimes it's quite good to ask

well it's really good to ask if the certain dish that you want to order has

any nuts in it or has whatever it is that you're allergic to

so you would say "does it have nuts in it?" or you could just say "I'm allergic to

nuts" and you know some people are allergic to some very strange things so

make sure you know what those words are in English as well because that that's

quite important and the other thing is the people those of you who eat

vegetables only you don't eat meat

you obviously a vegetarian so sometimes it's good to say "what are the vegetarian

options?" or "I'm a vegetarian" and then hopefully they will point you in the

right direction

ordering the food is very simple so you can just simply say "can I have the pasta?"

or you could say "i would like the pasta" always remember to kind of follow up

with please and thank you

just because in England especially and a lot of similar countries we do

take manners quite seriously and finally when you finish your meal

and it comes to leaving

obviously you have to pay so the next thing to say is

"can I have the bill please?" or "can i pay

please?" it's as simple as that and then they will bring it to you

it's up to you what happens from there you can try and have a conversation with

them if you want to practice your English it might be quite good I think

restaurants are a great place to practice English because and a lot of

waiters and waitresses like to have conversations with the people that

they're serving so it is a great way to practice your English because you can

just start some small talk

you can see one of my previous videos on small talk to find the link in the video

somewhere and you can watch that one about some ideas of what you can ask

people to start a small talk conversation anyway that's pretty much

everything that you need to know for ordering food in a restaurant booking a

table in a restaurant and finally paying the bill in a restaurant

I hope you found this useful and hopefully you can put this into a good

practice soon

thank you very much for watching and I'll see you in the next video