How to Ask for food and drink in Portugal, Portuguese Restaurants, Madeira, Brazil and Portuguese speaking places

DRINKS MENU / wine list / dessert menu
Water
Coffee
Tea
milk
cream
black coffee
white coffee
sugar
turkish /greek coffee
strong coffee
Juice
freshly squeezed fruit juice
mixed
orange juice
tomato juice
local food / local wine

PORTUGUESE TRANSLATION
BEBIDAS MENU / lista de vinhos / menu de sobremesas
agua (water - like aquaduct)
Café
Chá
leite
creme
café preto
café branco
açúcar
café turco / grego
Café forte
Suco
Suco de fruta recém-espremido
misturado
suco de laranja
suco de tomate
comida local / vinho local

Notice that the adjective comes after the noun in Portuguese, and most languages other than English. (French moulin rouge is red windmill, literally windmill red.)

CONFUSIONS CLEARED
S u c o is not sugar but juice.
The Portuguese word for sugar is açúcar (think ah - shook ah, ah sook ah)
c with a tail warns you that in Portuguese the c is pronounced s as in the English words palace and police - where in English we add an e to soften the sound.

PRONUNCIATION
Wikipedia says
Portuguese makes use of five diacritics: the cedilla (ç), acute accent (á, é, í, ó, ú), circumflex accent (â, ê, ô), tilde (ã, õ), and grave accent (à). The cedilla indicates that ç is pronounced /s/ (from a historic palatalization).

IN A HURRY? EASY WORDS! EASY TO REMEMBER!
Ask for:
café - coffee
tomate - tomato
creme - cream
local - local

If they don't understand your pronunciation - write it down.

Useful Websites
Here's a post with details on coffee ordering in Portuguese:
http://www.portugaltraveltips.co.uk/food-and-drink/how-to-order-coffee-in-portugal/

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, learner and teacher of languages (aspiring polyglot).