I need help learning some Italian phrases/words.?

Question

For Italian classes I'm taking, we have to make an Italian menu.

What would the Italian word for 'menu' be?

What would a cafe be called in Italy?

What sort of stuff is commonly served in these little cafes?

What is the Italian words for 'breakfast', 'lunch', 'dinner', and 'dessert'?

Are Italian menus set up the same way as here in America, or do they have a different way of going about it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

menu is the same
a cafe is a bar, where you drink caffè (which is what others call espresso), cappuccino (caffè with steamed milk). In the morning often they take a cappuccino with a Brioche (croissant) or some biskuits (biscotti). Caffè you can take "liscio" (straight) or "corretto" (with some grappa)
Breakfast is called colazione, lunch is pranzo and dinner is cena. if i remember well the dessert is called in generally "i dolci"

when you go for dinner or pranzo, first you take an "antipasto" which is a little bit like a plate of tapas, than you take "il primo" (first plate) which usually is plate of pasta . than you take "il secondo" (second plate) which is usually fish or meat with the "contorno" (these might be potatoes, rice, salad). After dinner you take "dolci" for example the famous "tiramisù" and after that you drink a Caffè (Never cappuccino after dinner)!

Answer 2

Italian Word For Cafe

Answer 3

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I need help learning some Italian phrases/words.?
For Italian classes I'm taking, we have to make an Italian menu.

What would the Italian word for 'menu' be?

What would a cafe be called in Italy?

What sort of stuff is commonly served in these little cafes?

What is the Italian words for 'breakfast', 'lunch',...

Answer 4

The Italian word for menu is menu! The cafes in Italy are called bar (where you have breakfast) or tavola calda (where you can also have cooked lunch).
In the bars they prepare panini and sandwiches. Panini are rolls stuffed with all sort of cold meats and salami, or cheeses (especially mozzarella), pomodori (=tomatoes), ecc..They also serve hot and cold drinks, brioches (the brioches they serve for breakfast are called cornetti), ice creams and little snack (such as pop corn or crisps).
The Italian word for breakfast is colazione, lunch is pranzo, dinner is cena and dessert is dolce.
In Italy the menus start with starters which can be salads, parma ham and melon, fish starters and meat and cheese starters.
After the starter they have a primo piatto which consists in a plate of pasta with different sauces or in a minestra which is a sort of soup with short pasta in it.
Then they eat a secondo piatto which basically is meat or fish and a contorno, that is vegetables.
Afterwards, they have their dessert (dolce). After that they drink coffee which is not as the America one, it's stronger. After the coffee, they usually have un ammazza caffè or amaro (bitters).
Hope this helps!

Answer 5

All of the above is right; I'd like to add that in Italy also exist joints called "caffé" themselves; compared to a "bar" (which are more similar to "pub") a "caffé" is more devoted to coffee itself: here you can find a lot of variety of coffe (various blends, different ingredients added, different ways to make it), so much even an average Italian usually knew just a fraction of! And a big choice of every kind sweetness, as well.
Often a "caffé" is also tied with cultural tradition, since they could be very old (even back to 1700) and were meeting place for prominent people in Italian history.

Also, remember sometimes "colazione" could men "pranzo", while "breakfast" is "prima colazione" (literally "first breakfast"); although not very common, it's still in use in some places.

Answer 6

menu = menù
cafe = bar
They serve snacks like panini, tramezzini (sandwiches), primi piatti (pasta, insalate), pizzette, tranci di pizza.
Italians love to breakfast in bars. So there are dolci: brioche (croissant, pronounce: briosh), brioche con crema, brioche con marmellata, brioche vuota
You drink there: warm drinks caffè, cafè-latte, caffè macchiato, latte macchiato, cappuccino, tè, tisane, infusi
cold drinks: Coca, limonata, cedrata, acqua minerale frizzante/naturale, chinotto, succhi di frutta (mela, pesca, pera ciliegia, arancia...), gingerino,
alcoholic drinks: vino rosso/bianchio/rosé/grigio, birra, spritz, prosecco
hard stuff: amari: amaretto, cynar, ramazotti, fernet branca, montenegro,...
whisky: international whiskys
rum: international rum: bacardi, havanna...

breakfast = colazione
lunch = pranzo
dinner = cena
dessert = dessert, dolce

menù:
antipasto
primo piatto (pasta, riso)
secondo piatto (carne + controni)
frutta
dessert/dolce
caffè
digestivo (amaro) o grappa

You should buy a dictionairy, if you don't have it already ;-) Hope to be of help. Spero di esserti stata utile

Answer 7

Menu is "menu" in italian
A cafe is "bar" ...in these little cafes you can drink coffe (caffè espresso) cappuccino, thè, juices (succhi di frutta) or alcholic drinks, such as wine (vino) and so on.
There, you can eat a sandwitch (un panino) or pizza (pizza!)
In turistic places you can find menus written in two languages; italian and english.
Good job, boy!