The ULTIMATE Paris Food Tour - 18 Must-Try Dishes! (baguette, beef bourguignon, crepes & more) — Transcript

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1. 0:11[Music] Wow. France has one of the most famous  cuisines in the world. And over the next few days,
2. 0:16we're going to show you the best dishes you need  to try when you come to Paris. For our first dish,
3. 0:21we are starting off with a traditional French  crepe. This is kind of like a pancake but thinner.
4. 0:27They have so many different kinds of toppings.  I chose the one with caramel and salted butter.
5. 0:37Hmm. This is perfection. It's like a little bit  crispy on the outside and then nice and soft on
6. 0:42the inside. Naick has the savory version which is  called a galette. And this one has ham and egg.
7. 0:51So we've come to this market located on  the Place de la Bastille. It has dozens of
8. 0:56different food stalls. France is known for its  cheeses. Le fromage. So we have this which is
9. 1:02a quiche. It has cheese inside. And this  version also has spinach and salmon. Oh,
10. 1:10that looks amazing. Oh wow. It's got this nice  crispy crust on the outside and then on the inside
11. 1:15you have the cheese and the salmon. Really good.  If you want something different, they also have
12. 1:19a version with bacon or they also have a cheese  souffle. [Music] Markets have some of the best
13. 1:27food in Paris and I absolutely love, love, love  the vibe of this one. But now we're going to go
14. 1:33to a traditional French bistro. [Music] We've come  to this place called Au Bourguignon du Marais and
15. 1:47they specialize in one thing which is this,  boeuf bourguignon. This is beef and it's been
16. 1:53stewed for hours in like a French red wine.  There's some bacon in there, some mushrooms,
17. 1:59some other veggies. It just smells amazing and  it comes in this beautiful looking pot. Oh wow,
18. 2:07the meat has been stewed for so long. It just  falls apart and then the red wine sauce has been
19. 2:13thickened. What is not to love about this dish?  We found a list of the best beef bourguignons in
20. 2:18all of Paris and this place was on that list. This  place is a bistro. In comparison to a restaurant,
21. 2:24the food is a bit more simple here. It's  more like home-cooked meals they have here.
22. 2:28I have the magret de canard, which is duck.  Something they have a lot here in France. So
23. 2:34it's pinkish on the inside, nice and crispy on  the outside and with a small layer of fat here.
24. 2:42Which gives it a lot of flavor. Now, this sauce  is a blueberry sauce, sauce de myrtilles. So,
25. 2:48we're going to soak it up a little bit. We've  got some potatoes, some veggies here as well.
26. 2:55This is actually really good. It's almost like  the French know how to cook. And for dessert,
27. 3:01we have this chocolate cake with caramel ice cream  and creme anglaise. It was absolutely delicious.
28. 3:10We've been to Paris about seven or eight times  and we're going to show you 18 dishes in total,
29. 3:15but it is the last two that to us are our  personal favorites. The best French foods
30. 3:20you could find in Paris... coming  up at the end of the video. Now,
31. 3:26France is of course super famous for its  pastries, and we just went to a local
32. 3:31bakery right around the corner here. They have  beautiful French baguettes, but especially the
33. 3:36baked goods and the desserts. Oh my goodness,  look at this. This is a lemon tart and it just
34. 3:43looks out of a dream. I'm going to dive right  in. She couldn't contain herself anymore. Wow.
35. 3:55It's better than a dream. Now, I've chosen  my personal favorite pastry here in France,
36. 4:02the eclair. It's beautiful. It's simple. It's a  pastry, and they fill it up with chocolate cream
37. 4:08and then they put another layer of chocolate on  top. It's kind of like a chocolate mousse cream
38. 4:15inside. Then you've got the crunchy chocolate  on top. Now this is the simple everyday version
39. 4:20of an eclair. If you want something a little  bit more fancy, you should head to Galeries
40. 4:25Lafayette. Galeries Lafayette is the fanciest  department store in all of Paris. Look at these.
41. 4:31These are like designer eclairs. Little  pieces of art. And I'm going to eat them.
42. 4:41Wow. Best eclair ever. That is in a whole  different league. It's a flavor explosion
43. 4:48in my mouth. Now for something completely  different. We've come to one of our favorite
44. 4:53restaurants in Paris. I mean, just  the vibe here alone is crazy. Now,
45. 4:57a lot of people wonder like, do  they really eat snails in Paris?
46. 5:03I can say yes, they do. This restaurant's  specialty is snails because the name of
47. 5:10the restaurant is Escargot de Montorgeuil. So  you grab this little thing that looks like a
48. 5:14torture device. It's actually a little grip.  And you grab them like this. Take the little
49. 5:20utensil right here and then you pull out the  snail like this. That's it. [Music] Hmm. Wow,
50. 5:31it's actually really good. Bit of a special  flavor. The standard one is with a lot of garlic,
51. 5:35but this one has a little bit of a spicy kick to  it. You can see there's also butter inside. Now,
52. 5:41for the actual best part is that you pour out the  rest of the butter into the little pan... and then
53. 5:49you dip the bread sticks. So, here we have another  French classic. This is beef tartare. It is ground
54. 5:58beef that they mix in with usually a little bit of  pickled vegetables, some mayonnaise, some mustard,
55. 6:05and in this case, there's also some oil on there  that seems to have like lots of herbs in there.
56. 6:10It's topped with a refreshing little salad, nice  and crispy. But plot twist, this is actually raw
57. 6:16beef. It's really, really typical for France and  it's perfect to have in summer because right now
58. 6:21it is 35° C and I would just love nothing more  than to have a nice and refreshing meal. So...
59. 6:33Wow. I can think of nothing in the entire world  that I would like better right now. And it's
60. 6:39served with some French fries. Winning at life.  This restaurant actually offers a set menu. You
61. 6:45can have a two course meal for just €19. So  you can have a starter and a main, or a main
62. 6:50and dessert. Or you can have a three course menu,  which is just €29. I have the esturgeon. This is
63. 6:56sturgeon, a type of fish. In a typical French way,  with capers on top, and then some buttery sauce
64. 7:02because I mean it's France. Sounds like there's  an emergency going on somewhere. Someone didn't
65. 7:09put enough butter on their meal. I love like food  prepared the French way. My favorite kind of way,
66. 7:19Creme brulee. One of the best French desserts.  It's a custard-based dish. They put sugar on top
67. 7:24and then they caramelize it with a blowtorch.  Hence the name: creme brulee. Burnt cream.
68. 7:33So, we've been to Paris a bunch of times, and if  there's one thing I recommend you do before you
69. 7:38come here, it's learning at least a little bit of  French. Most Parisians don't speak fluent English,
70. 7:43which means that even simple things  like ordering food can turn into a bit
71. 7:46of a struggle. You end up standing in a bakery  hoping that you're actually ordering a croissant
72. 7:51and not accidentally declaring war on the entire  country. If you're interested in learning French,
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87. 9:08Good morning. It's time for some breakfast. They  have the best breakfasts in the world. We are here
88. 9:13at Du Pain et Des Idees. This is an award-winning  bakery and it is so beautiful on the inside. It's
89. 9:20like it looks like it has 200 different kinds  of beautiful pastries. So, we bought a couple.
90. 9:25I'm going to start off. Usually in France, I  think this is called a pain a chocolat, but
91. 9:29here they call it a chocolatine. And it's  essentially like kind of a puff pastry,
92. 9:34but in the middle. [Music] Wow. And I have the  very classical one, which is a croissant. Look
93. 9:43at this. You can hear the crispiness, the crunch.  This is so flaky, but it's still like soft and
94. 9:50wow. This is called an escargot de pistache.  Escargot means snail. And the middle part is
95. 9:56supposed to be the best part. It has a little  bit of pistachio, a little bit of chocolate.
96. 10:02Mhm. Wow. If you want to have some breakfast  pastries, come as early as you can. Like by
97. 10:0810:00 a.m., I think a lot of places  kind of run out of this good stuff,
98. 10:11especially on the weekends. I think it's  time to eat one of the most French things
99. 10:18you can eat. This is baguette. It's a little  masterpiece. The French love their baguette,
100. 10:22and they've perfected it over hundreds of years.  They've put all their effort into this. This is
101. 10:27hundreds of years old. No, no, luckily not. And  the typical way French have their baguette is
102. 10:35'jambon beurre'. The most classical thing you can  eat here, the quintessential French lunch. Wow,
103. 10:43this baguette is really next level. It's really  crunchy. It's a little bit chewy. And then you've
104. 10:47got the ham and the butter giving it like a smooth  texture. And that was the classical baguette they
105. 10:54have here in Paris. Now, behind me is a shop that  has won not once but twice the world championship
106. 11:01for the best lobster roll. Now, what makes it so  good is their brioche bun. You know they really
107. 11:06know their breads here in France. They fill it up  with lobster and then he takes this really huge
108. 11:12turkey baster, fills it up not once but twice  with butter... and then just pours it on top.
109. 11:21[Music] [Laughter]
110. 11:29Wow. Hmm. You really need to try this, Kim.  [Music] It is ridiculous how good this is. France
111. 11:39really has great seafood. They have like oysters  and they have lobster and they have big seafood
112. 11:45platters. I think this is like a really nice  modern take on it with the French bread and two
113. 11:50kilos of butter. The butter. [Music] Life is good.  So, next up we are having one of the most heavenly
114. 11:59little snacks in all of Paris. We have come to  La Duree which is world famous for its macarons.
115. 12:10Look at this pretty little box  that they put it in. Unbelievable.
116. 12:16So, these are about the most high-end macarons  you're going to be able to find. And they are
117. 12:21not cheap. This little box costs €26 for  eight pieces, but they're supposed to be
118. 12:27the absolute best. They've been making them for  150 years. Oh my goodness. In 37 years of life,
119. 12:36I have never had a macaron - and I've had a bunch  of them - as good as this one. This is why I love
120. 12:42France. Life is too short to drink bad wine. I  agree. Now it's time for the 'moment supreme'.
121. 12:50All the restaurants we walked past were empty, but  here people are queuing up waiting for it to open
122. 12:55up. The thing is they only make one dish, but  they make it really, really well. We've come to
123. 13:03the restaurant called Le Relais de l'Entrecote,  and they only serve one dish. You can't even
124. 13:07like order here or something. They just come and  ask, "How do you want your meat?" And that's it.
125. 13:12This is a steak frites. It was voted as the most  French dish in all of France by the French people.
126. 13:19This cut of meat is called entrecote which is kind  of like a ribeye. It's served with French fries.
127. 13:26We are in France. And then this thick creamy sauce  of which they keep the recipe very, very secret.
128. 13:37Wow. It's so good. The meat is so soft, but that  sauce... so much flavor in there. And this is
129. 13:45my favorite dish in all of France. And after  this, we're going to have Kim's favorite dish.
130. 13:54I have come by myself to the Bistro de Paris  and I'm actually here to try their signature
131. 14:00dessert. But I felt a little bit embarrassed,  like a little bit cheap if I were to come here
132. 14:05and just have dessert. So, I'm also going to show  you this, which is typically French. It's called
133. 14:11oeuf mayo. It's literally just a hardboiled egg  cut in half and topped with French mayonnaise.
134. 14:17I've never had it, but it's a classic. So,  we're going to try. So much mayonnaise.
135. 14:29It's the fact that it's really good mayonnaise.  You can just taste the Dijon mustard in there.
136. 14:35You can tell this is not store-bought  stuff. It's actually really good. But now...
137. 14:45And then here it is, people. My favorite  dish in all of France. This is called a
138. 14:50profiterole. In English, that is a choux  pastry. It just looks amazing. And it's
139. 14:56so big. I feel like this is almost like  the size of my head. I should not have
140. 15:00had the eggs with mayo. That was too much.  Anyways, you can have this with custard,
141. 15:05whipped cream on the inside, but this one is  with ice cream. I have been looking forward
142. 15:11to this. [Music] I'm so glad I don't have to  share this. If you want to see more of Paris,
143. 15:24you can watch our video on the best two  days in Paris here. Or if you want to
144. 15:27know what not to do when you visit Paris, go  watch our don'ts video right here. [Music]