El orégano va bien con el tomate, pero el perejil me gusta más en la sopa.

Spanish often uses the definite article when talking about things in general, especially foods and ingredients.

So:

• el orégano = oregano, as a general ingredient
• el tomate = tomato, in a general sense
• el perejil = parsley, in general

This is very natural in Spanish, even when English would normally use no article.

Compare:

• Me gusta el café. = I like coffee.
• El ajo va bien con el pollo. = Garlic goes well with chicken.

So in this sentence, the articles do not necessarily mean one specific oregano, tomato, or parsley. They are just the normal way to talk about these ingredients generically.

Va bien con means goes well with or pairs well with.

It comes from the verb ir, which usually means to go, but in expressions like this it means something more like to suit, to work well, or to match.

So:

• El orégano va bien con el tomate
  = Oregano goes well with tomato.

You can use this structure with lots of foods, colours, clothes, and styles:

• El queso va bien con el vino. = Cheese goes well with wine.
• Ese color va bien con tus ojos. = That colour suits your eyes.

Because gustar works differently from English to like.

A very useful literal way to think about gustar is:

• me gusta = it pleases me

So in:

• el perejil me gusta más

the thing doing the pleasing is el perejil, and me means to me.

That is why the structure is different from English:

• English: I like parsley
• Spanish: Parsley pleases me / Parsley is pleasing to me

The parts are:

• me = to me
• gusta = pleases / is pleasing
• el perejil = parsley

This is one of the most important differences between English and Spanish sentence structure.

Because the grammatical subject is el perejil, and that is singular.

With gustar, the verb agrees with the thing liked, not with the person who likes it.

So:

• Me gusta el perejil. = I like parsley.
  (el perejil is singular, so gusta)

But:

• Me gustan las hierbas. = I like herbs.
  (las hierbas is plural, so gustan)

In your sentence, el perejil is singular, so gusta is correct.

Más means more, but in natural English this often becomes better or more than..., depending on context.

So:

• el perejil me gusta más en la sopa

can be understood as something like:

• I like parsley more in soup.
• I prefer parsley in soup.
• I like parsley better in soup.

The exact comparison is not fully spelled out. Spanish often leaves the second part of the comparison understood from context.

For example, it could imply:

• more than oregano
• more than in other dishes
• more than with tomato

The context decides what is being compared.

Because más is modifying the idea of liking.

In me gusta más, it is part of the verbal idea: I like ... more.

This word order is very normal in Spanish:

• Me gusta más el té. = I like tea more / I prefer tea.
• Me gusta más así. = I like it better this way.

You may also see other word orders for emphasis, but me gusta más is the standard, natural pattern.

Because en la sopa means in the soup—that parsley is used inside the soup.

• en = in
• con = with

So:

• me gusta más en la sopa = I like it more in soup

If you said con la sopa, that would usually sound more like with the soup, as something accompanying it, not as an ingredient inside it.

So en la sopa is the natural choice here.

Spanish often uses the singular when talking about a food or ingredient in a general sense.

So:

• el tomate = tomato, as an ingredient/type of food
• la sopa = soup, as a dish/category

This is similar to English when we say things like:

• Tomato goes well with oregano
• Parsley is nice in soup

We are not necessarily talking about one single tomato or one single bowl of soup. We are talking about those foods generally.

Spanish can also use plurals in some contexts, but the singular generic form is very common and natural here.

In this case, orégano is masculine, so it takes el:

• el orégano

This one is actually not surprising, because nouns ending in -o are very often masculine.

But it is worth remembering that grammatical gender is not the same as biological sex, and food words simply have a grammatical gender that you have to learn with the noun:

• el tomate
• el perejil
• la sopa

A good habit is to learn nouns together with their article:

• el orégano
• el tomate
• el perejil
• la sopa

That helps you remember gender much more easily.

Yes, that is also possible.

Spanish word order is flexible, and different orders can change the emphasis slightly.

Compare:

• El perejil me gusta más en la sopa.
• Me gusta más el perejil en la sopa.

Both are understandable and natural. The version in your sentence puts el perejil first, which gives it a little more prominence, as if contrasting it with something else—probably el orégano from the first half of the sentence.

So the original sentence feels a bit like:

• Oregano goes well with tomato, but parsley, I like more in soup.

That fronting is very common in Spanish for contrast.

They have accent marks for different reasons.

Orégano

• The written accent shows the stress: o-RÉ-ga-no
• Without the accent, Spanish stress rules would suggest a different pronunciation

Más

• The accent distinguishes it from mas
• más = more
• mas = but (a literary or old-fashioned word)

So in your sentence:

• más definitely means more

Accent marks in Spanish are very important because they can show either:

1. where the stress goes, or
2. the difference between two words that would otherwise look the same.

It is just the normal conjunction but.

It connects the two contrasting ideas:

• El orégano va bien con el tomate
• pero el perejil me gusta más en la sopa

So the contrast is:

• oregano works well with tomato,
• but parsley is what I prefer in soup.

Nothing unusual is happening grammatically with pero here. It is a very straightforward connector.