To order food, you can simply use the indefinite article un (masculine) or une (feminine) + the item. You would normally add s’il vous plaît (‘please’), at the end of the sentence:
Une soupe de poisson, s’il vous plaît. One fish soup, please.
If you want to order a specific quantity of items, you use the relevant number:
Trois croissants. Three croissants.
Deux pains au chocolat. Two pains au chocolat.
Un rôti de porc. One (plate of) roast pork.
You can also use the polite form (‘would like’) of the verb vouloir (‘want’): Je voudrais (‘I would like’) + article + item:
Je voudrais un rôti de porc. I’d like the roast pork.
Je voudrais une mousse au chocolat. I’d like the chocolate mousse.
Activité 11
You are about to have your lunch at the café-brasserie Le Bistro du Musée. You are going to place your order. Listen to the waitress and the prompts, and answer in the gaps in the audio track. To check your answers, look at the transcript.
If you order un café in France you will get un express (a strong black coffee). Make sure you say un grand café or un café allongé if you want a large black coffee, un café crème or just un crème if you want white coffee, and un grand crème if you want it large.
Traditional cafés in France are places where people go at any time of day and consume different drinks depending on the time of day. The food served in cafés is limited to light snacks, such as sandwiches or croque-monsieur . American-style coffee shops can now be found in larger French towns and cities, but are not as popular as traditional cafés.
French Food Rule #7 No snacking! It's okay to feel hungry between meals. ( 4 meals , or three meals and one snack. Limit snacks, ideally one per day, two max & more for small children, and not within one hour of meals) It's okay to feel hungry between meals.
A typical French breakfast consists of a croissant or bread with butter and jam and sometimes a sweet pastry. Fresh fruit juice and hot beverages, like coffee or tea, are also included.
An usual French lunch will include: an appetizer (une entrée), such as a mixed salad, soup, terrine or pâté; main course, (le plat principal), choice of beef, pork, chicken, or fish, with potatoes, rice, pasta and/or vegetables; cheese course (from a local selection) and/or a sweet.
The typical French dinner menu is salade verte (green salad) followed by viande avec garniture (meat with vegetables), fromage, and dessert. You may also see potage (soup) and hors d'oeuvres (appetizers) as a first course.
Other national French dishes include snails with garlic butter, onion soup — la gratinée, fondue bourguignonne, hachis Parmentier, choucroute, foie gras, pâté croûte, poulet basquaise, ratatouille, poule au pot and steack tartare, to name a few.
Pot-au-feu is the national dish of France. This essential version combines beef shank and rump roast with eight vegetables and a blend of herbs for an extra-comforting bowl.
Dinner is, for most people in France, the main meal of the day and it is traditional for the family to eat together in the evening – it's not unusual to spend up to 2 hours at the table for this meal.
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