107: Italian Restaurant Etiquette: How to Order Like a Local

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

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Learn how to order food in Italian and avoid the common mistakes most people make in Italian restaurants. You’ll be ordering like a local in no time!

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Today's Italian words:
Prendo il pollo = I’ll have the chicken (lit. ‘I take the chicken’)
Prendo questo = I’ll have this (lit. ‘I take this’)
Gli antipasti = The starters
I primi = The first course (lit. ‘the firsts’)
I secondi = The first course (lit. ‘the seconds’)
La mancia = The tip
Un digestivo = A liquor that Italians drink after dinner
Un amaro = An Italian herbal liquor

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0:00.0	Do you know how to order at Italian restaurants?
0:03.0	It's more than just a practical skill.
0:05.0	It's about knowing what to say and following the local traditions
0:09.0	so that you can connect with Italians and have memorable experiences in Italy. Whenever we're traveling to a new place, we want to know all about the food.
0:29.1	Aside from being bonissimo, delicious, it helps us feel more local.
0:34.1	See, it's like when your friends and family come to Italy. They always ask me lots of questions
0:39.9	because they want to try the lovely local food, avoid little touristy missteps and feel part of
0:46.1	everything. What do they normally want to know about? I'll tell you in Italian.
0:52.3	They want to know how ordinar and want to
0:56.7	follow the traditions and the costumes.
1:02.3	First, Matteo said,
1:04.9	They want to know how to order.
1:12.8	They want to know the traditions and they want to know how to order.
1:22.9	Then, and they want to follow the traditions and they want to follow the traditions and the customs
1:33.3	and they want to follow the traditions and they want to follow
1:40.6	the traditions And the customs
1:45.0	And the customs
1:48.0	In this episode you'll learn how to do both of these things
1:52.0	You'll get tips on how to order your food like an Italian
1:56.0	And also how to follow those little local food customs
2:00.0	Before we get into them, we wanted to let you know that our online Italian food and wine festival is happening this Friday.
2:07.6	It's open to our Italian school students and you can learn more about it at the end.
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