Talking about Food

Talking about the look, smell and taste of food

The cake looks delicious.

The food smells good.

It smells like heaven in the kitchen.

The curry is really tasty.

My wife's home-made cookies are yummy.  (informal) (yummy = delicious)

My mother's apple pie is out of this world. (= excellent, very delicious)

The steak looks over-cooked.

The soup is a bit too salty.

The meat is tough and dry.

The taste of this dish is a bit bland.

The steak tastes like a piece of leather.  (= hard and tasteless)

The food in the new Italian restaurant is second to none.  (= the very best)

The food in that restaurant is really disgusting.  (= not delicious)

Saying you are hungry

I'm hungry.

I'm starved. (= very hungry)

I'm famished. (= very hungry)

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

I'm peckish.  (= a little bit hungry)

At the dinner table

Please pass me the salt.

Could you pass the pepper please?

Could I have some milk please?

Could I have seconds, please?

Is there any more of this?

What's for dessert?  (Informal)