French Food Words For Travel

Help when traveling to order food and shop!

A French food word list that is printable for use when you are on holiday in France or another French speaking country when ordering in a café or restaurant or shopping!

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• Help when traveling to order food and shop!
• Will You Get Help?
• Where To Start With Your French Food Vocabulary
• Specific Food Items From English To French
• Looking for more French culinary help? Try these:
• Recipes To Love
• 📖 Recipe

Will You Get Help?

Most French people will help you out if you can't speak the language, but they much prefer it if you make an effort and try to speak it a little. Even if you only manage to say "Bonjour, madame," "Good morning, madam", they are pleased to hear you at least try.

Did you know that taking a trip to a French Cooking School is an amazing vacation with great benefit! Learning the ins and outs of French cuisine from the greatest experts is the best way to hone your French culinary skills.

However, with a little French vocabulary you may at least have an understanding of some basic words or phrases for your food shopping. Try some French Cooking Terms which will be of great help not just when traveling but when reading recipes too.

Let's begin with a simple shopping trip with some useful phrases to help you. There is more at Learn French Phrases.

Apart from the smaller shops and market stalls which are very good indeed, you may also have the bigger supermarkets for your shopping and these include the Géant, Casino, Intermarché and Carrefour.

If you are shopping in one of the supermarkets you may need some money for the trolley, you will need some euro coins.

Just jump in to any of my recipes and I will do my best to help you along and a good place to start is The Art Of Seasoning and French Herbs with a definite leaning to great French cooking.

Where To Start With Your French Food Vocabulary

If you don't know where to buy something, you may start with:

Where can I buy ..? - Où est-ce que je peux acheter…?

Where is the supermarket? - Où est le supermarché?

Where is the bakers? - Où est le boulangerie?

Where is the market? - Où est le marché?

Do you sell….? - Est-ce-que vous-vendez….?

Specific Food Items From English To French

Looking for more French culinary help? Try these:

Recipes To Love

Some of my favorite dishes:

📖 Recipe