---
title: "Hebrew in an Israeli restaurant"
slug: "hebrew/travel/restaurant"
canonical: "https://www.itsbaba.com/hebrew/travel/restaurant"
question: "What Hebrew do I need at the restaurant?"
answer: "Menus outside the tourist strip are Hebrew-only. The camera in baba is for that. The speech is for the waiter."
description: "A table, the bill, water, and how to order without accidentally flirting in the feminine."
cluster: "direct-task"
html_status: "live"
updated: "2026-09-11"
numbers_used: "[]"
competitors_named: "[]"
---

# Hebrew in an Israeli restaurant

Menus outside the tourist strip are Hebrew-only. The camera in baba is for that. The speech is for the waiter.

| Hebrew | Transliteration | English |
| --- | --- | --- |
| שולחן לשניים | Shulchan le-shnayim | A table for two |
| מים, בבקשה | Mayim, bevakasha | Water, please |
| את החשבון, בבקשה | Et ha-cheshbon, bevakasha | The bill, please |
| אני רוצה… | Ani rotzeh / ani rotzah | I would like… |