Una cena en Barcelona
“Ayer por la noche, Pablo y Ana entraron en un restaurante cerca de Las Ramblas.
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Una cena en Barcelona
Reviewed by Francisco · Updated
- Topic
- Comer en un restaurante
- Learning goal
- Narrate ordering, sharing, and finishing a restaurant meal
- Grammar focus
- restaurant ordering in the preterite · direct and indirect object pronouns · estar for taste
- Length
- 96 words
- Reading time
- 0.9 min
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English translation▾
Last night, Pablo and Ana entered a restaurant near Las Ramblas.
The waiter gave them the menu and they sat down by the window.
Ana ordered a tomato salad with olive oil and Pablo chose the patatas bravas.
For the second course, they both shared a seafood paella.
“It is delicious,” Ana said with a smile.
To finish, they ordered two cortado coffees and a slice of Santiago cake.
Afterward they asked for the bill and paid by card.
Before leaving, they left a tip for the waiter.
It was a perfect evening.
Key vocabulary
Comprehension check
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Writing prompt
Describe a restaurant meal in 8–10 sentences. Include arrival, what each person ordered, a shared dish, your opinion, and payment.
Speaking prompt
Role-play ordering a starter, sharing a main course, commenting on the food, and asking for the bill.
Answer key and explanations
A tomato salad with olive oil.
Ana orders the tomato salad while Pablo chooses patatas bravas, before they share paella.
A seafood paella
The fourth sentence explicitly identifies seafood paella as the second course they shared.
Two cortados and a slice of cake
After the paella, they order two cortados and a slice of Santiago cake.
They paid and left a tip.
The added closing actions place payment and the tip after dessert and coffee.