Survival Phrases
The exact phrases you need for real life abroad — with practice dialogues and audio, for every level.
Practice pronunciationEating & Drinking Out
Restaurants, cafés, bars, and ordering food.
Making a Restaurant Reservation
Use these phrases to confidently book a table, specify dietary requirements, or make changes to an existing reservation at an Italian restaurant.
Making a Restaurant Reservation
Use these phrases to call a restaurant, book a table, and handle questions when you arrive.
Ordering at a Restaurant
Essential Italian phrases for arriving at a restaurant, ordering a meal, and paying the bill without using complicated grammar.
Ordering at a Restaurant
These everyday phrases will help you comfortably get a table, order your meal, and ask for recommendations in an Italian restaurant.
Ordering at a Restaurant
These essential phrases will help you navigate a restaurant in Italy with confidence, from claiming your reservation to paying the bill.
Ordering Coffee at a Café
These phrases will help you confidently order coffee and pastries at an Italian bar like a local.
Ordering Coffee at a Café
Use these essential phrases to confidently order and pay for your drink at an Italian café.
Allergies & Dietary Needs
Use these phrases to safely navigate restaurants in Italy and clearly communicate your dietary needs.
Allergies & Dietary Needs
Essential phrases for navigating restaurants and social situations in Italy when you have allergies or dietary restrictions.
Sending Food Back & Complaints
Use these phrases to politely but firmly address problems with your order or the food itself, while maintaining the respectful formal register expected with service staff.
Paying & Splitting the Bill
Essential Italian phrases for paying the bill, splitting costs with friends, and handling card payments at a restaurant or café.
Paying & Splitting the Bill
Essential phrases for finishing your meal, asking for the bill, and paying at an Italian restaurant or café.
Paying & Splitting the Bill
Essential phrases for finishing your meal, asking for the bill, and paying in Italian.
Ordering Drinks at a Bar
These phrases will help you navigate a busy Italian bar, from ordering your first drink to setting up a tab and settling the bill with friends.
Ordering Drinks at a Bar
Use these phrases when ordering drinks, buying rounds, and managing a tab at an Italian bar or cafe.
Takeaway & Delivery
These phrases will help you order food for takeaway or delivery, ask about times and fees, and sort out any missing items.
Takeaway & Delivery
These phrases will help you confidently place orders for takeaway or home delivery, ask about fees and wait times, and handle payments or missing items.
Takeaway & Delivery
Use these practical phrases to confidently order food to go or request delivery directly in Italian.
At a Fast-Food Counter
Use these phrases to confidently order your favorite fast-food meal without hesitating.
At a Fast-Food Counter
Use these phrases to confidently order a meal, customize your food, and pay at a fast-food counter in Italy.
At the Bakery & Deli
Use these essential phrases to confidently order bread, pastries, and deli items at a typical Italian bakery or deli.
At the Bakery & Deli
Use these essential phrases to order bread, deli meats, and pastries naturally at an Italian bakery or deli.
Buying Street Food
Use these practical phrases to confidently order street food, ask about ingredients, and handle payment like a local.
Buying Street Food
Use these practical phrases to confidently order street food, ask about ingredients, and pay in Italian.