How to Order Breakfast in Italy Like a Local - Easy Italian 261

If you walk into a bar in Italy for breakfast, you really know what to order and How does it work? Maybe you'll see lots of people at the counter ordering quickly. And you're still looking at the menu. It's raining today, so we can't do Street interviews, but we definitely aren't giving up breakfast, and for this reason We'll go and discover a few places where you can have breakfast, precisely. In Milan. So the next time you're in Milan, you'll know where to go. and go, what to order and how to order it. Ah, Mary, I'd say we should go too, because it's It's time to have breakfast. Let's go. Guys, do you want to sit down? Yes, maybe outside? Then let's have a cappuccino, a caffè macchiato, and a regular coffee. What about the pastries? And the brioche? Mary, which brioche do you want? Yes, and then let's also take a plain brioche for me? A chocolate bar and a little pizza. Here you go. Thank you. Gentlemen, your coffees. We have a coffee A normal coffee, an espresso with a splash of milk, a cappuccino, and a glass of water. Now let's eat everything. A plain brioche, a small pizza, and a chocolate bar. The classic Italian breakfast is Sweet and swift, especially in Milan and especially during the week. So a coffee, a croissant Often standing up and then immediately leaving the bar, just as I like it. Mary, quick, I had to go. So eat quickly. Someone else, however, prefers a savory breakfast, such as Antonella. She got a nice slice. But I see it doesn't have mozzarella, so it's a good marinara. so I might as well eat that one too. Next time you want to have breakfast in Italy or at Milan, you'll want to order with confidence and know everything that's happening at the counter. To prepare yourself At this point, I recommend that you review all the useful phrases and vocabulary related to breakfast. How can you do this? Just become part of the Easy Italian community to receive the exercises for the week based on this video and many other materials such as slow audio, fast audio, Video transcript and vocabulary list. For more information, click the link in the description. Today we are with Giorgio, who is in charge of Dolzetto. We are in the Isola district of Milan, and he We wanted to ask a few questions about Italian habits. What do you order? Usually, what do Italians have for breakfast? Then, the most classic option is coffee and a croissant, which they then In this case, they are croissants, so a French-style laminated dough, but especially during the week when someone has to go to work and doesn't have all this time to indulge in it A long breakfast, the simplest thing you order at the counter is coffee and croissant. Let's explain therefore The difference between croissant, brioche, and cornetto. Exactly, then the brioche is a soft dough. so not flipped with the presence of eggs and aromatics that can be citrus peels Vanilla is a slightly sweeter dough, while the croissant—so to speak, the Italian-style croissant— It's a brioche dough with a bit less fat because it's then laminated, so there is Anyway, the presence of vanilla aroma eggs, perhaps flaky, while the croissant is French is a dough where butter stands out, because there are no eggs, no aromatics, and what If you want to emphasize it, it's the taste of the butter used. Good butter, good, and usually the Do people ask you to sit down, or do they just have breakfast standing at the bar counter? In reality It depends on the time one has available; the distribution of who places orders is quite even. At the café and who sits there. What about you, what do you prefer when you have breakfast? To sit down calmly. Good. On the newspaper, maybe you drink your coffee with Calva, but how do you have breakfast? From everything. What do you usually go for? If I were to try a pastry shop that doesn't With me, cappuccino, or maybe coffee if there's a specialty coffee presence—of course, that's made. Also look into the coffee break itself and perhaps a croissant, maybe if I really want to treat myself to a luxury with A layer of apricot jam. So if we come over to your place, we absolutely have to try that. Right? Exactly, or otherwise the venetian, which is our brioche with almond glaze Above that, it's one of our flagship items. Teach it to me in Venetian: croissant with jam. Are you from Veneto? Personally, no. You're from Milan. But I've been infected from the owner, the owner of Marostica, which is why we strongly emphasize both the pandoro and We do it all year round and offer it in both sweet and savory versions, as well as the Venetian style, whichever way you prefer It resumes the fuggassa, a typical Venetian dessert, precisely especially at this Easter period. The poi in breakfast format then becomes the Venetian style. I know you shouldn't talk about it, but Competitor, in your opinion, where can I drink the best coffee in Milan, the tastiest coffee? From Milan? Can I give you three addresses? Go ahead, I'll write them all down. Orso Nero, which was the first specialty coffee spot here in Milan, Lost Caffè, which makes incredible products and also has some Truly good coffee and nowhere else. Thanks, Giorgio, very kind of you. Fotis, I'll take you out for a walk. my usual bar breakfast when I don't have it at home. But what do you mean, at the bar? I go to the bar to drink my... Spritz, the little wine, that is, breakfast at the bar. In Italy, people have breakfast at the bar. Let's go to that bar, okay? Because bars are open In the morning. But is it aesthetic? Do you even think so? We'll see. Good morning, a decaf macchiato, please. No brioche? Do you have something small? Small, we have fogliatelle or canoncino. Fotis, do you want something? Let's go with a fogliatella with Chocolate or cream? What do you prefer? Cream. Let's go with cream. So Mary, you always make the Breakfast like this, just standing up, without sitting down? Yes, during the week, because I don't have time to waste. How does breakfast at a café work in Italy? If it's something quick, do they take the cappuccino at the counter or the coffee, or do they sit at a table? They're sitting down, just sitting for a little while, long enough to smoke a cigarette or have a quick chat. The chiacchiere are sitting longer at the little table. Now we're also asking Linda at Small Cafè. What do Italians usually have at the bar? Breakfast is always a cappuccino, a latte macchiato, these coffees, regular breakfast. What do they usually eat for breakfast? Brioche, muffins, cookies. And what do you usually eat for breakfast? In the morning I have soy milk with a croissant. I always take whole wheat with red berries. Berries of the forest? Yes. Mary, now it's my turn, so I'll take you for breakfast to my favorite spot, which isn't a café because I don't have a Scotch in the morning. And instead, an aesthetic bakery. Let's go? Let's go. This also seems cool to me—I wanted to find out what it is. I go crazy for orange peels. Hi, sorry, can I ask you about this? We wanted a savory brioche with cooked ham and Brie. The other one always with cooked ham and another cheese that isn't Brie. Then the one with whipped cream flavored with pistachio. We wanted two orange juices, and what about you, Antonella? I'll have a decaf coffee. Thank you. We're here with Sforno and Ivan, who will tell us a few things. What do Italians usually ask for when they come to order breakfast? The cappuccino, of course, and anyway, we have a wide variety of croissants, so they usually go for the pistachio croissant—it's very popular. In fact, we prepare many in advance because they sell out very quickly. It's precisely the bestseller. But most people either sit down or quickly have breakfast standing up? Try sitting down, because it fills up quickly anyway. But one tends to sit down and spend some time anyway, as it's quite a pleasant atmosphere. And what about you, how do you usually have breakfast? Me too. Do you have everything with pistachio? Me too, I'm really fond of it, so I always go for pistachio. Here's Mary—did you see? For me, breakfast is like this: sitting down, relaxed, sweet and savory, we have all the time in the world to chat. What do you think? You're right, it seems, well, it's very beautiful to look at and will surely be very delicious as well. We have to go, don't we? Wow! My little tablecloths. Thank you so much. How nice it is to have breakfast. Fotis, but how many breakfasts have you had today? I'd say about ten, but I'd make just as many, so that's perfectly fine. This looks really good. Very elegant? Yes. I drink my coffee strictly without sugar. Well done, I can't manage that. Even though it's often splashed with milk, as in this case. Want to try a little Mary? No, thank you. It looks like a small egg, but actually it's a small cake with passion fruit mousse on top and a biscuit underneath—look how beautiful it is. How cute, very cute. But this is more like a snack than a breakfast, don't you think? Yes, because it's two o'clock. So what are the usual phrases we use to order breakfast at a café? So, I often hear people walking into a bar and saying, "Hi, can you make me a coffee?" Let's say that's probably not the best way to order, right? It's a bit too informal and colloquial, so what do you usually say? I'd say good morning, please could I have a cappuccino and a croissant? Something like that, right? What do you think? Yes, I'd say good morning, for me a macchiato and an empty brioche. Then the Milanese say "we cappuccino and brioche." What would you say to order a savory breakfast? Could I please have an orange juice, and maybe a slice of pizza? What do you say? Yes, I could say good morning. I'd like a bottle of mineral water and a savory pastry, perhaps one with ham and cheese. Was that the one we ate? Exactly. It was good. We have often noticed that in some places they no longer serve sugar, as they prefer the coffee to be, so to speak, better highlighted without sugar. But if we really wanted to ask for sugar, what kind of sugar could we ask for? Can we say you have a regular sugar packet or a cane sugar packet? Or do you have the sweetener? And usually, do you take your coffee with what kind of milk? Usually, I have my caffè macchiato with regular milk, but I have my cappuccino with soy milk. What kind of brioche can you usually order at a café in Italy? Well, the most common ones, shall we say the most widespread, are either the plain one, which is often also called smooth, or the one with apricot jam, or the chocolate one. But now we see that there's often also the pistachio one, maybe even the whole wheat one with honey, and lately, many new varieties have also arrived from abroad. like, for example, the cinnamon roll, the chocolate penne, I don't know, does anything else come to mind, maybe the braid. In short, various new developments that have been introduced. My favorite is usually the whole wheat brioche with honey, but it's not always easy to find. Often, if you're a foreigner and don't know Italian, it's better to directly point at the dishes and ask how they're made, rather than trying to ask for the menu in English, which not everyone may have? Yes. So, what do you think one could ask to understand how a brioche is made? It can indicate the brioche and say sorry, but what's inside this brioche? Or what about this one? Yes, yes. And how do you usually have breakfast? Write it in the comments below. Cappuccino or brioche? Coffee or tea? Coffee. Me? Mom, but this is a size! The inspection photo of a brioche. In brioche! 1, 2, 3!