Beyond the pilgrim menu
Beyond the pilgrim menu: the bar, tapas and raciones, and ordering what you meant to.
Ordering food in Spain goes wrong in a specific way for walkers. You learn enough to get the pilgrim menu, that works, and then you stop. Six weeks later you are still eating the same three dishes, standing in bars where everyone around you is ordering things you cannot name.
This course is the rest of it. It starts at the counter rather than the table, because a great deal of Spanish eating happens standing up and the counter is where the choices are. Then portion sizes, which is the mistake that arrives as enough food for four people. Then reading what is written down, the meat and fish that decide what lands on the plate, what comes alongside it, and how you want it cooked. It ends with asking for a change and turning something down politely, which covers allergies and the evenings you simply cannot face another plate of it.
97 words across 7 topics, each with example sentences and a map showing how the words connect.
What is in it
- At the bar – 15 words The counter, not the table. Most of Spanish food culture happens standing up.
- Tapas and raciones – 14 words after At the bar Three sizes of the same dish, and knowing which one you just ordered for four people.
- Reading the menu – 14 words after At the bar Two different things get handed to you and they are not the same document. Knowing which one you are reading decides what you pay.
- Meat and fish – 16 words after Reading the menu The words that decide what actually lands on the plate.
- Vegetables and sides – 13 words after Reading the menu What comes with it, and what to ask for when you want something green.
- How you want it cooked – 12 words after Meat and fish Six words that decide whether the steak arrives the way you imagined it.
- Asking and saying no – 13 words after Tapas and raciones Allergies, changes, and the sentence that gets you out politely.
The first topic of Camino basics is free and needs no account, so you can see how the practice works before this course costs you anything.
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