Restaurants

Coffee

French cafes are famous for their coffee. However to make sure you order the type of coffee you want here are some essential terms.

• Café (ca-fay) is plain coffee with nothing added, but is strong as it is brewed like espresso.
• Café au lait (ca-fay oh-lay) is simply coffee with steamed milk, and it's almost always wonderful. You will sometimes get the coffee served in one pot or in the cup, and then a pitcher of steamed milk to pour in as you please.
• Café crème (ca-fay khremm) is coffee served in a large cup with hot cream.
• Café Décafféiné (ca-fay day-ca-fay-n-ay) is decaffeinated coffee. You will still need to tell them you want milk (lait) or cream (crème) with your coffee.
• Café Noisette (ca-fay nwah-zett) is espresso with a dash of cream in it. It is called "noisette," French for hazelnut, because of the rich, dark color of the coffee.
• Café Americain (ca-fay a-meyhr-ee-kan) is filtered coffee, similar to traditional American coffee.
• Café Léger (ca-fay lay-zjay) is espresso with double the water.

Other French coffee terms

Here are other terms that will come in useful when ordering coffee or visiting a French café:

• Sucre - (soo-khruh) - sugar (You can request this, although cafés typically bring a cup with two cubed sugars on the dish. Since French coffee is strong, you may want to request more, or ask, "Plus de sucre, s'il vous plait," ploo duh soo-khruh, seel voo play.)
• Edulcorant - (ay-doohl-co-hrahn) - sweetener

Other Drinks

Other drinks you might wish to order include :

• Chocolat chaud (shaw-ko-lah show) - hot chocolate
• Une tasse de café
• Une tasse de thé
• The (tay) - tea
• The au lait (tay-oh-lay) - tea with milk
• un coca (un coca as in coca of coca cola)  -  a cola drink
• un orangina (un orangina)  - a bottle of orangina - a favourite drink in France
• un jus d'orange (un joo d'orange) is an orange juice
• du l'eau (doo low) water
• un verre d’eau
• une bouteille du vin
• une carafe du vin or a demi-carafe or a pichet de vin (peeshay du vin)
• un biere

Babies and Children

Do you have...Avez-vous.

....baby food?..les plats des bebes?        lay pla day baby

....a high chair?..une haute chaise?    oon hote shes

.. a straw ? une paille         oon pie

Allergies and Dietary Preferances

• Je suis... I am...
  
• allérgique à... allergic to...
  
• diabétique diabetic
  
• végétarien (for men)/végétarienne (for women) vegetarian
  
• végétalien /végétalienne vegan
  
• Je ne peux pas manger... I can't eat...

And finally !

• C'est terminé ? (se termeenay) Have you finished?
• L'addition s'il vous plait (lah-dee-see-yohn seel voo ple (with ple as in pleasure)   The bill please

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