
Often the menu has the option of one portion and a half-portion you can also specify that in your order. O empregado de mesa (the waiter) approaches and you order:

Don't stress, keep cool, relax and enjoy the view (if there is one). Sometimes, depending on the restaurant, you may have to wait a bit until someone pays attention to you and comes to take your order. Let's order a fish dish you already know, if you listened to episode 14 about food: Bacalhau à Brás. You look at the names of the dishes and you make your choice. Naturally they don't look all the same, but generally you will see the menu divided into different sections. But where is the fun in that? Let's look at the menu in Portuguese. So, now you have the menu and unfortunately it's not in English! Unless you are in a tourist restaurant, when you will have a thick menu with several pages in all the languages you can think of.
