Originally Posted by
BamaVol
A couple weeks ago in Naples, I was handed a menu in English with no prices. When the waiter asked what I'd like, I said I'd like to know the prices. He apologized and handed me a menu in Italian with prices on everything. I did not feel embarrassed because I felt like the bill could have been significant if I wasn't careful.
More often than not, when translation menus don't have prices, it's because the management doesn't update these as often as the regular menus, so they don't want to commit to specific prices. I find waiters usually hand me both the translation menu and the "real menu" (it's good to get both because sometimes I know the foreign name of the dish more than the butchered English equivalent).
The absence of drink prices in America has a more devious intent.
