At a Café in Spain
Ordering coffee and breakfast, finding a table and paying in a Spanish café or bar.
In Spain, a café is often just the neighbourhood bar: you order a café solo, cortado or café con leche, maybe a tostada con tomate, and you pay at the end rather than at the counter. Waiters are addressed with tú and 'ponme' is the normal way to order. The cards follow two friends meeting for breakfast on a terrace, ordering, sorting out a cold coffee and paying.
- 1
Un café solo, por favor.
A black coffee, please.
- 2
¿Es para tomar aquí o para llevar?
Is that for here or to take away?
- 3
Ponme un café con leche.
Can I get a white coffee?
- 4
Con leche de avena, si tienes.
With oat milk, if you've got it.
- 5
Una tostada con tomate y aceite.
Toast with tomato and olive oil.
- 6
¿Está libre esta mesa?
Is this table free?
- 7
¿Nos sentamos fuera, en la terraza?
Shall we sit outside on the terrace?
- 8
¿Puedo pagar con tarjeta?
Can I pay by card?
- 9
¿Qué te debo?
What do I owe you?
- 10
Hoy invito yo.
It's on me today.
- 11
Cuando puedas, nos cobras.
When you get a chance, can we pay?
- 12
¿Tienes sacarina?
Have you got any sweetener?
- 13
Este café está frío.
This coffee is cold.
- 14
Un descafeinado de máquina, por favor.
A decaf from the machine, please.
- 15
Otro, por favor.
Another one, please.
- 16
¿Qué tenéis para comer?
What have you got to eat?
- 17
¿Tenéis wifi?
Have you got Wi-Fi?
- 18
¿Cuál es la contraseña?
What's the password?
- 19
Quédate con el cambio.
Keep the change.
- 20
Para mí, lo mismo.
I'll have the same.