As a Parisian, Bouillon Chartier is definitely not the best french restaurant if you're looking to try "good" French food. The restaurant is famous because it's been around for a long time and is sort of an historical place. People go for the experience and to take pictures. The food is not great, but decent for the price. I used to go a few years ago when it wasn't as famous amongst tourists and we didn't have to wait in line to get a table. Nowadays, there are much better options!
Last time i went was in 95 and there was already quite a line - Chartier is famous because they stick to the tradition and have had pretty much the same menu for a century.
Surely there are restaurants in France where you can walk in and get a table right away and have a decent meal. I would never ever ever wait in a series of lines like those you've shown unless at the end of the line they were handing out large sums of money.
Please don’t judge All French food upon your experience in Paris because every town in France has its own culture and its own food specialties. If you really want to discover real French food, go to a city where prices are reasonable and food is really good. And really, I am French, and I absolutely can’t eat an Andouillette without throwing up. Begin with something easier!
We ordered this in a small village. We thought it's just a sausage with instestine. I am used in eating intestines but man! My soul left my body when I tried it and I think my brain shut down as well 🤣
I absolutely love french cuisine and there are some meals that are not for everybody like in every other culture. Me it's tripes and oysters (I just cant). I was a little bit shocked to see they served the boeuf bourguignon with macaroni. The sides are usually mashed potatoes or onions and green beans.
I regularly eat happily the most cursed foods in France, and I love the strongest cheeses, those that smell truly terribly, I could eat them every day. Yet, there's ONE thing I can't stand, it's andouillettes, even just the smell. Why even proposing that to tourists ? there should be a disclaimer next to it "this the no1 cursed food in the country be warned". Most French people don't like it either.
Yup, frozen food is...not a good sign when you're judging a restaurant's quality. I'm guessing they're doing it to catch up with demands but a restaurant that actually cares about the experience would NEVER serve frozen food! And a line out the door doesn't always mean the place you're going to is the best, but that it's more likely a tourist trap portrayed as an amazing experience. That cozy French restaurant Claudette you went to in NYC was better quality than this was, because yeah, you can just tell they cared! Those cheap cream puffs are definitely an insult to their original recipe. So regarding cream puffs: The choux pastry used to make them was invented by the Italian head chef of the court of Catherine de' Medici, who came to France from Florence to marry Henry II in 1533. The original recipe changed as the years passed, as the pastry cook's art began to develop around the 17th century. It would take until the nineteenth century to be perfected by Marie-Antoine Carême
The purpose of a bouillon is to be cheap, the original goal was under 2 old francs , so less than 10€. They could have had much better dinner at le train bleu, dinner starts at 75€ per person. Bouillon was 15€. You go to bouillon chartier for the history and the cheap price. The room itself is splandid and usually that's what the peoples want to see when they go there. There are other bouillons were you don't have to wait for hours, because the room is more modern/classic.
The "bouillon Chartier" isn't a high quality restaurant. It originally catered for 19th century Paris office workers with limited means. What's notable about it is that it didn't change anything, basically. People are still seated with complete strangers, and the menu hardly changed at all during the last 150 years. The appeal of the "bouillon Chartier"isn't the high quality food (they don't have that) but more or less the experience. Basically it's an unique place, an historical monument, not a great restaurant (although it isn't a *bad* restaurant either, just a relatively cheap restaurant.)
We just walked to a restaurant close to our hotel on Rue Cler and we loved every dish we ordered. We ended up eating there for dinner almost every night because the food was that good. Even their side salad was eye openingly delicious!
e just walked to a restaurant close to our hotel on Rue Cler and we loved every dish we ordered. We ended up eating there for dinner almost every night because the food was that good. Even their side salad was eye openingly delicious! 🥰🥰😃😃😃
Bonne analyse Jessi, pour avoir autant de plats sur un menu, c'est un signe qu'il y a beaucoup de congelé. Chose utile à savoir pour manger dans des restaurants en France qui ne cuisinent qu'avec des produits frais: une carte extrêmement courte avec seulement 2 ou 3 entrées, 3 plats principaux max et 3 ou 4 desserts. Les plats principaux coûtent environ 15€. Thank you so much for all your videos, you are a joy to watch. 🐌
Chartier c'est juste historique et pas cher, franchement pas le meilleur resto, mais bravo à vous d'avoir tenté les escargots et l'andouillette 👏👏😁 super vidéo 👌💙
This is NOT macaroni. It's coquillettes: these kind of pastas are kind of of "Proust madeleine" to all French people because that's what you're being served a lot when you're a kid. In no way you can call them a gastronomic dish, but then, her beef stew with coquillettes was priced less than 10 €, an incredible bargain in Paris. Those Bouillon are not gastronomic restaurants, they used to cater for the working forces. Don't expect to eat anything gastronomic there, but it's a cultural experience!
it isn't. The thing is it's a restaurant serving dish you could find at home and the price are really really cheap. That's why the dish seem not outstanding, but the taste is good, what people would call comfort food. A tourist trap is a restaurant overpriced and serving average dish.
Mes enfants, si vous voulez goûter la vraie cuisine Française, fuyez Paris à tout prix!!! Dans les régions de province vous découvrirez des merveilles gastronomiques pour beaucoup moins cher et bien plus copieuses, goûteuses et savoureuses.😑.
Bouillon Chartier isn't expensive. It's pretty much the point. They serve traditional French dishes at an affordable price. The "bouillons" were intended for office workers who weren't poor, but weren't making much money either, during the 19th century. This one is the only one left. Another restaurant in Paris goes by the same name, because it was originally identical, but it became over time a perfectly regular restaurant. This "bouillon Chartier" essentially serves the same food, and in the same conditions (people seated at the same table even though they're strangers) as they did 150 years ago. That's a quite interesting experience,and pretty unique in Paris. Even though, as many people pointed out, it's not the Paris restaurant where you'll find the best food, not by a long shot
il ne faut pas être aussi catégorique. Oui a Paris il y a beaucoup d'arnaques, beaucoup de fausse et mauvaise cuisine pour touristes,l'accueil des touristes pas à la hauteur, les serveurs sont désagréables, souvent même de la cuisine sous vide ou congelé, même pas faite maison, mais en cherchant bien on trouve des adresses authentiques vraiment très bonnes et pas trop chères. Malheureusement les touristes n'ont pas les bonnes informations et se font souvent piéger par ces restaurateurs peu scrupuleux.
So while eating snails is commonly associated with the French, different peoples of different periods have eaten snails! Lots of broken snail shells dating back to 10,700 BCE were found in a cave in southern Greece, implying they were eaten. They found the same thing in many sites of Iraq and western Iran from the late Pleistocene. Ancient Romans considered snails as an elite food, and the first written reference to snail farms comes from Ancient Rome. Roman breeder Quintus Fulvius Lippinus is considered the "father" of heliciculture, and while he feasibly studied domesticating other creatures like dormice and wild boar, he was famous for his big snail collection, and each snail was enormous themselves thanks to a fattening diet.
Snails are eaten in Portugal, Spain and I'm sure they are in Italy as well amongst other locations in around the Med probably. I. Portugal/Spain they are called Caracóis/caracoles but you don't just get 6 and they are a summer snack/tapa. Usually in a broth alongside buttered toast... Very popular in the summer. Larger ones are called caracoletas and are also served the same way. They aren't an exotic delicacy that requires "fanciness" 😂
@SupremeLeaderKimJon-un Archaeological research also has it that snails were eaten before Roman times in England. In any case, my husband, who was English, loved them! I don't and I am French - would eat them at someone else's place if they were put in front of me but that's about it. So, hats off to this couple for tucking into snails and apparently enjoying them - and no, this restaurant is probably far from the most reliable in Paris for freshness and authenticity... Wouldn't know, never been there!
So unfair to judge French cuisine based on a cheap tourist attraction. Paris is expensive, if you don’t pay the price, there is no way you have decent food in your plate.
It's mostly Parisian food. It's like trying food from Rome and thinking it's the food of all Italy.. In my part of France, the food is mostly mediterranean : olive oil, fish, a lot of vegetables, lemon, etc. I'm sure you heard of ratatouille or salade niçoise.
You're definitely right! The restaurants in the big cities often don't represent the real national cuisine , which in Italy as in France is above all regional !!!👍🇮🇹
@@gabrielesantucci6189 I'm from Normandy, but now I live in paris and I very much disagree, In Paris you can eat food from all over France, they are amazing restaurants specialiez from differents regions, I've eaten the best tougoule and escalope normande (traditionnal normand dishes) in Paris
It's "classical" French food. "Bouillon Chartier"is an extremely peculiar restaurant. Basically it didn't change anything since the 19th century when it was catering to middle-class office workers in Paris.The conditions are the same, the menu is pretty much the same. Going there is more about the experience than about the (average but cheap) quality of the food.
as French I had the chance to go to Roma and as a food lover I was excited to try stuff but of course as tourist, even being very careful and picky about the place to go, with my budget, I didn't succeed to find a restaurant that full fill my expectations and end up being disappointed (because I expected too much). BUT I know the italians classics and the quality of their products and I would NEVER judge an entire internationally famous gastronomic country like Italy based on my personal bad luck and/or lack of time/knowledge at that time. Vive Italy and their talents! Like many countries, France has influences from surrounding countries, including Italy. It is about regions, not country. Sicilian food is very different than food from North Italy. Same for France. France has been internationally famous for its food, but especially for the fact that the concept of modern restaurant became a thing: after the revolution, all the chef cooks of the bourgeoisie opened places where the customers would have a quality experience within a clean, comfortable and decorated 'restaurant' with a menu, service, toilets, etc. Before that, you could only find something to eat in bars/taverns, surrounded by drunk people, you would need to bring your own knife and fork, and the choice was limited to whatever local product or whatever the wife of the owner would have time to cook. Today in France and other countries, the regulation, normes, food safety stuff, taxes, etc... push the restaurant owners to not take risks and discourage talented hard workers to make great but simple food, but there are still a lot of beautiful and simple restaurant to enjoy :)
I'd have to agree with George Lei! Since 1985, whenever I am in Paris I have to visit my favorite, Brasserie Bofinger, an Alsatian "Belle Epoque" brasserie founded in 1864 near Place de La Bastille! It is famous for it's magnificent domed skylight (backlit) and worth a visit, they'll let you in to look during the day if they are not busy! Other suggestions would be Les Deux Magots (hangout for Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Picasso, Hemingway, Henry Miller among others) and continuing on the Left Bank, there are other famous hangouts of artists and writers (Hemingway etc.) Brasserie Lipp, Restaurant Polidor, and La Closerie des Lilas. I'm forgetting so many places, but one last one, another rather famous restaurant is Au Pied de Cochon! Don't short change yourself and get the wrong impression of "La Belle Cuisine" Bouillon Chartrier has been for more than a few decades now, an overrated tourist trap. Perhaps you two, being as delightfully young as you are, may not be familiar with Le Guide Michelin but get one for Paris or the red overall one. You just cannot go wrong with it. Even one or two crossed fork and spoons (the red ones are a higher rating) will reveal wonderful places to eat and which are often much less expensive. For hotels, more little birdies on rockers the more tranquil and quieter the place, the more little hotels the higher the rating and the higher the luxury and price.
I'm french and you won't ever see me eating snails or andouillettes, but there are a ton of great French dishes, you should give it another go in a better restaurant.
Donc là, pour vous le problème est pas la qualité mais le fait que vous n'aimiez pas ni les escargots ni l'andouillette. Cela ne veut pas dire que ce n'était pas bien fait !!!
@@jean-michelgaiffe3834 En effet, mais pourquoi s'initier à la cuisine française par des plats qui sont, dirons nous, des goûts acquis? Une bonne blanquette, des paupiettes, des bœuf bourguignon, etc...m'auraient semblé plus adaptés, sans compter que lorsqu'on attend trois heurs pour rentrer dans un restaurant, les attentes sont à leur paroxysme.
Ive been several times to france and I have to say, their average level of food is better than in any other European country, Italy included. In Italy they have great food, but in France its another level, and I don't even particularly like the french, but their food has no rivals in Europe. In asia there are better cuisines, like the Chinese, indian and Japanese, Id say that Thai food is at the same level, but in Europe they're number one without doubt
Italian food outmatch the French food easily, on any level. It's like comparing a diamond jewel with a bronze one. You have to be etither a French guy, a troll, or a person who has never been in Italy
@@keyos1955 Um. Sir, of course you are right. 'Juan' may eat any food he likes just like anyone, but his comments are truly Hilarious. As for this video, I felt bad for Alessio for trying this stuff. Even though this is sort of French food at 'reasonable prices', I laughed at his reaction, because I know how he must have felt. In Italy for 'reasonable prices' you eat fantastic food! There is no such thing as bad food in Italy. Doesn't exist. All food in every region across the board is excellent.
@@keyos1955 N'importe quoi. La seule chose que vous pouvez faire, c'est de foutre des putains de tomates de partout. Aucun délicatesse dans vos plats, c'est toujours la même chose. Arrêtez d'être jaloux...
@@JoBoK13 Ahahah how chaivinist and ignorant you can be? Your cuisine is butter and cheese everywhere, bland and repetitive flavor. The Italian cuisine not only is 10 times wider than French cuisine, but tomatoes probably.cover only the 5% of Italian recipes. Your gastronomy is quite overrated, I live in France and French people eat mostly Italian food
C'est pas cher car c'est pas fait sur place avec le personnel qui va avec et tous les ingrédients. C'est probablement de la cuisine industrielle achetée en gros, comme malheureusement plus de la moitié des restaurants Parisiens. Vu le volume de nourriture qu'il faudrait sortir tous les soirs, vous arrivez à vous imaginer le nombre de casseroles, de pôeles, de légumes, de viandes ? Je suis quasiment certaines qu'il n'y a presque pas de cuisiniers, mais beaucoup de commis qui ouvrent des paquets et des paquets de plats surgelés déjà préparés où il n'y a qu'à les passer au micro onde, et les frites déjà précuites et surgelées dans la friteuse.
@@catfrexfrecat1800 Très honnêtement je trouve ca vraiment chouette, je suis étudiant et c'est toujours un plaisir d'y allez certes peut être les produits sont très congeler mais on y mange bien et de plats qui rappelle la maison.
@@Simon-je6ck comme vous le dites, vous êtes jeune donc vous ne connaissez pas le goût des vrais produits et des vrais recettes. Je peux vous assuré que la différence est flagrante quand on a les papilles gustatives affutées. Néanmoins, effectement ça peut être sympa pour des personnes qui n'ont pas beaucoup de sous. Ce que je trouve très dommageable c'est pour les touristes qu'ils soient américains ou autres qui s'attendent à quelque chose de spécial vu la notoriété de la France en Gastronomie et qui tombent dans ces "pièges", et qui s'extasient sur du bourguignon coquillette digne d'une cantine d'un lycée du 93. Il y a encore des petits restau sympa pas trop chers à Paris qui vaillent le coup d'oeil pour peu que l'on prenne la peine de chercher. Plusieurs exemples trouvés en 2 secondes sur google "où manger à Paris pour moins de 15 €" ; La réserve du terroir dans le 4ème arrond. - Georgette, restaurant bistronomique dans le 6ème arrond. - Armande, restaurant traiteur patissier sur la butte montmartre, etc...
In my opinion, French cuisine is best enjoyed at a higher price range. The "Bouillons" are a type of affordable restaurants, with very few "home made" products (mostly frozen, canned or already-cooked and vacuum packed products). It's ok for the price, but I wouldn't advise it if you want to have a true taste of French cuisine.
France is not Paris. In my city you can eat for 20€ for lunch and have starter, main dish and dessert. And everything Will be tasty, handmade and fresh. And far better than what parisian restaurants are serving to tourists. As a french Who did a cooking school many years ago, this isn't even the kind of restaurant I would go to.
"Bouillons" don't exist anymore. They were a 19th century feature. The only one left is the "Bouillon Chartier" where the authors of the video went. It's not famous for its cuisine, it's famous for basically not having changed anything during the last 150 years. Going there is a bit like going in 2124 to the last Mc Donald still existing.
We went to France from New Orleans. Think how shocked we were to find out that Andoulliettes were NOT like Cajun Andouille sausages! It's chitlin's in a TUBE people!!!
It is even more shocking to discover that a former French region doesn’t use the word « andouillettes » properly! But after looking for more info, it seems that part of Louisiana still has a proper andouillettes! :)
Some french dishes includes: Oignon soup Beef burgundy Coq au vin (rooster with wine) Hachis parmentier patates douces et confit de canard (gratin with sweet potatoes et duck confit) Poulet basquaise (chickpeas stuffed chicken) Bouillabaisse (fishes stew with saffron) Cassoulet (beans with assorted meats) Quiche with cream and bacon and spinach Zucchini terrine and carrots Ratatouille Navarrin (lamb with carots and mushrooms) Boeuf carottes Pois casse (peas soupe and bacon) Salade nicoise (salad with olives, tuna and eggs) Duck confit with prunes and berry sauce Lentils with veal feet and carots
Some minor corrections: "Some french dishes includes:" French dishes include: ... "Oignon soup" Onion soup "Beef burgundy" Not wrong, but more commonly known as 'beef bourguignon' in the UK. "Salade nicoise" Often called a 'nicoise salad' in the UK (not sure about the US).
I'm sorry but I was laughing my ass off that one of the things you stood in line for HOURS to eat is hard boiled eggs with mayo! LMAO 😂 No lines to eat those at my house we do that every week around here! LOL 🤣
Bouillon Chartier is like diner food so it’s not really that great…but in general in France a simple carrot or potato is transcendent. Produce and small batch artisan foods just taste better. Butter and oil in France is just phenomenal-used in that eggs mayo-, so while it does sounds simple “eggs with mayo” it’s super delicious because of the quality of product
@@krislv9219Carrot and potatos are transcendent in France?... Ok lol Oil is definitely not phenomenal if you mean olive oil, the best comes from any number of Mediterranean countries from Portugal to Turkey
People pay (little) monney to experience the oldschool and cheap parisian cuisine, that's actually not that wild, people paye 10x this price to watch ahtletes running after a balloon...
You are so very gracious in your disappointment. As a typical American, I would have been way more forward in my comments. Thank you for showing me a far more gentle and kind way to be
Parisian here, it's not at all a tourist trap, it's just a typical bouillon, there is queue because it always been like that since, most of bouillon doesent have reservation, your suposed to eat fast and leave the place quickly, I've often went there during my studies because it's really cheap and serve comforting food you will only find at home, sure you could get way better versions of thoses meals at others restaurants but it get pricey, anyway it's cheap, traditional, and good.
If you're in Paris and you want the experience of that really traditional bistro style (waiters in black and white, wood and mirrors on the walls and ceiling etc), but don't want to end up in a tourist trap/in line with a bazillion of tourists, try the bistro Chantefable in the 20th arrondissement (close to place Gambetta). It's really nice and I always take visitors there who want the experience. And in general: Get away from the boulevards and into the quatiers, that's where you find a lot of amazing bistrots and restaurants where you get much better food (from very traditional to very modern) for more humane prices (not cheap though, it's still Paris).
The food looked decent but a tip for the future not every line at a restaurant is a sign of quality. Better research neighborhood restaurants/shops where mainly the locals eat to get authentic, affordable and good food. I had my best food experiences all over Europe in small often nondescript restaurants/shops.
You're correct. My favourite brasserie is la Lorraine in the 17 district where us Parisian go. Down arc de triomphe, subway place des ternes. Many Corsica , basques, restaurants too. Bouillon chartier is becoming trendy for tourist serving food that we cook at home.
Many years ago I was eating lunch in Rouen with a bunch of fellow Brits working on the same project. They all ordered burgers and french fries, I asked for andouillette and the waiter made a point of asking me if I knew what I was ordering. From many trips to France and being an offal lover I love the strong chewy taste of andouille sausage, just as I love my haggis and tripe !
I am french and never heard of bouillon chartier, it seems super weird to wait so long time for such basic food, I mean I would never buy oeuf mayo or poireau vinaigrette when out at a restaurant, that's the kind of things people make at home! I am not brave enough for escargots, and boeuf bourgignon is good but also easy to make, some andouilltes are good, I like the jargeau ones. desserts seemed a bit boring. please try more places! I am sure you can find much better than that.
You never heard of it ? What a pitty!! You probably from a small suburb. I'm French and Bouillon Chartier is an institution !! It might have changed lately but I remember it from my childhood : a beautiful, old, restaurant inside and popular not expensive and good good, Magic !!
@@SarahC-S-i9r happy to hear it used to be good yes I grew up in a suburb of nantes, and my adult life I spend in the countryside still know some famous places in paris, but not that one
Les "bouillons" étaient des restaurants qui servaient des plats traditionnels à des prix assez bas, mais dans un joli décor, pour les employés de bureau travaillant à Paris au 19eme siècle. Un peu des cantines, au dessus du niveau des ouvriers, mais en dessous du niveau des bourgeois. "Chartier" était en quelque sorte une des "chaînes" de restaurants de ce type. Il y avait plusieurs "bouillon Chartier" à Paris. Au fil du temps, presque tous les "bouillons" ont disparu, et le "bouillon Chartier" montré dans cette vidéo est un des seuls qui restent (en fait il y a un autre "bouillon Chartier" indépendant à Paris, sur la rive gauche, mais maintenant, c'est juste un restaurant traditionnel avec un décor de l'époque.) Ce qu'il a de particulier est qu'il n'a essentiellement jamais changé. On fait toujours la queue, on s'assoit toujours à côté de gens qu'on ne connaît pas, on est toujours dans le même décor du 19eme siècle, on vous sert toujours les même plats qu'il y a 150 ans, pas trop chers pour Paris, mais pas non plus de grande qualité. C'est son originalité qui fait la célébrité du bouillon Chartier, pas la qualité de la cuisine. Il est installé dans un quartier populaire de Paris, et il y a quelques décennies, sa clientèle était toujours des gens qui voulaient manger pour pas trop cher, mais maintenant les gens y vont surtout pour voir, parce qu'il est célèbre et différent (c'est un grand (en surface) restaurant, qui peut accueillir beaucoup de clients, surtout bien tassés les uns contre les autres).
This is what happened to me in Boston. Every bowl of clam chowder I had tasted like it was canned. The baked beans and the rolls at the Parker House hotel tasted like all of the baked beans and rolls I’ve had before. And the Boston Cream Pie? Tasted like Sara Lee. Incredibly disappointed.
The music cracked me up when your were about to eat the sausage (if I can call it that 😝) And when Alessio asked if that was pig leg, I laughed out loud, you two are so funny. No way I would wait that long in line, even for good food, just saying.
Bouillon Chartier serves traditional French cuisine at affordable prices -thus the queue-; it was historically a labour workers canteen. We get what we pay for : for better quality, you have to double the price, at least. Yes, andouillette takes time to appreciate! Have it with beer, not wine. Tip : many similar restaurants have the "Bouillon" (i.e. "broth") term attached to its name and serve similar dishes at a low price : Bouillon Julien, Bouillon Pigalle, Bouillon Racine... are other options in Paris; you'll find the same in most French cities.
Tourist trap !!! Les parisiens vont chez Chartier parce que c'est abordable et qu'on en a pour notre argent mais ceux qui veulent se faire vraiment plaisir savent qu'il ne faut pas se rendre là-bas ! La qualité est proportionnelle au prix Et c'est d'autant plus désolant qu'à quelques mètres il y a de très bon restos
Most patrons are in fact Parisians. This restaurant is pretty much an historical landmark, not a place where you go to enjoy the food. And the prices are low, by comparison with other Parisian restaurants (and many serve you frozen food as well.)
As a Parisian, Chartier is without a doubt the worst Brasserie in Paris but it is also the cheapest, in fact Chartier is an institution where workers went for cheap lunch since 1896. It's been 40 years since I haven't gone back and there are always the same hard boiled eggs mayonnaise, the same awful boiled leeks (which you find good) and the same frozen snails (which you obviously also find good with the worst industrial bread in Paris...) and that you eat like Martians who have just landed on earth... Then comes the andouillette which could be compared to Scottish Haggis, I can understand that the taste is a little strong when you are not used to it and even as a Frenchman it's too strong for me but on the other hand you appreciate the macaroni that we gave in our canteens when I was little (terrible...) and the boiled beef that we call Boeuf bourgignon (at Chartier) . You taste like you write down a dictation, yes or no without even explaining to your subscribers the why of your decision. You are very nice young people but your video is not really interesting for these reasons without any justification, we would have liked more arguments, I did not go as far as desert...
I feel like it's super hilarious that you went to a restaurant with frozen fries and are reviewing it like it was fine dining. But your video will probably help other tourists not get fooled. Hilarious video guys!
I went to the French Riviera, Provence, and had fantastic meals. In fancy restaurants and in normal places. I'm not a fan of snails. Tried them but didn't like them. Mushrooms are better😂 The desserts were delicious though! Everywhere! And the rosé wine in Provence is 👌👍
So if you go back to southern France try the little snails from the south we call them : " Les petits gris " I'm not found of snails either but I could eat smal snails, whereas the big one put me off !
France has the third highest consumption of fast food in the world. They love the good American chains like McDonalds and Burger King, but they also enjoy disgusting slop like "French Tacos"
My wife and I rarely go to sit down restaurants in Europe. We love street and casual dining. And I believe the food quality is better and cheaper to boot
That seems sad. There are hundreds of thousands of great restaurants in Europe, at any price point. I'll acknowledge that it can be a bit of a task to find the good ones, but they are there.
There is a simple thing to know, when the menu is too long, run. It's all frozen food and the Boeuf Bourguignon with the maccaroni (coquiettes in french), this is not ok, an ok restaurant would have served it with mashed potatoes (purée de pomme de terre) or with a salad on the side. As a french native, I'm so annoyed by tourist traps. I just looked it up on tripadvisor and you're definitely not the only one who got the bad quality frozen fries. Apparently, quality wise the restaurant is not as good as before. At least you avoided Paris under the trashes and the recent protests, it's not the right moment to do tourism in Paris
@@lmnll2742 Je ne connais pas les traditions a lyon mais en temps que vosgien ça n'as jamais été ok, après c'est peut être une question de rigionalités
I lived in Paris for 13 years but I never expected that I was supposed to like eating all French specialties. I never became a cheese, mushroom, foie gras or sausage lover but there was still so much I loved. But please boeuf bourgignon with pâtes! I would have sent it back and asked for potatoes with it!.
It is very common to eat a bourguignon with pasta. It pairs vert well with the thick sauce. But indeed the one served was not the most best looking one.
Bouillon Chartier is an "historic" restaurant but from decades now is only a tourist "trap" and I don't know any French who would go eat there. Maybe once only for taking a few pictures cause they are beautiful restaurants. But for sure not for the food. It is almost as if an Italian would go rate "italian food" in an Olive garden. In any case for these very low prices it is strictly impossible to have good food made by real chefs with fresh and high quality products, especially in a super expensive city as Paris. 10 € for a main dish and less than 5 € for desert it is almost below the profit limit, so it means that they have to cook fast and with cheap products, even in the "province" outside of Paris it is impossible to have real good French food for these prices. So sorry you guys had a bad experience but with such a restaurant choice it was inevitable
damn I really wish i could give you an actual local list of restaurants to avoid these tourist traps like bouillon chartier. Any restaurants with lines in Paris should be avoided! The best restaurants in Paris require reservations!
Honnestly, 90% of the time when you share a table you don’t notice it. You don’t listen to their conversation and they don’t care about yours. For the remaining 10%, you can meet great people… or not.
When you see a line that long just walk away. Even if good on a slow night there's no way any restaurant can perform to standard without cranking out an assembly line of set dishes. This experience looked to me to be on par with Olive Garden but with Paris prices. Why . . . just why?
You come to Bordeaux. We'll help you to find a good magret de canard, a salade de gésiers and a café gourmand in a nice small restaurant. Andouillette, snails are extreme French food. You don't need to do that or to queue. You can eat good local food at reasonable prices without queuing for hours. Prices not bad for Paris, though !
Unless you are a real foodie, it's hard to recommend restaurants to tourists in your own home town. Because usually in your own town, you just go to some place close and cheap. Not necessarily the ultimate dining experience.
Having grown up in Europe, let me tell you that whenever you eat any internal organs, be prepared for the shock of the smell, taste or texture. Brains, eyes, hearts, stomachs, livers, spleen, kidneys and intestines are very common, all over the world. Here in the US, Rocky Mountain Oysters (bull testicles), are a delicacy. It's the efficiency of using the whole animal. My grandmother loved them all. My mom, some. Me, none. Blame it on McDonald's. 😅
Organic meat is very good for you, and I think our generation is doing ourselves a disservice. Having said that, I'll skip the colon. 😅 I can imagine that being tough to eat.
Just an idea, but maybe they don't bother with the quality as much anymore in some very popular and crowded places because there so many customers to serve. Guess, you'd find something more authentic and interesting in some smaller and less crowded resstaurant a bit futher away from the city centre.
I find that escargot has the taste of garlicy rubber bands. If you could taste dirt they weren't put in cornmeal for a few days to clean them out. Until next time much love💖💖
Bouillon chartier launch a full distribution therefore, they are buying food frozen to wholesalers to match volume. We are not going to those mass tourist restaurant
this resturante was recommended by many french people! and they told us that the food is good! the two girls who are at our side to us were French 🤷🏻♂️
@@ThePasinis really sorry for you. It was surely recommended due to none stop presence on tik tok😁🤭🤣😭 don't trust digital marketing to feed your stomach🤣. Here my addresses as Parisian: - la Lorraine a "brasserie" located place des ternes subway, down the arc de triomphe. Typical of Paris family destination. No frozen food. Not cheap, I agree - chez sebillon: to eat the best lamb (house specialty) and I recommend eclair au Chocolat as dessert ( you will be amazed by the size). Located porte maillot on neuilly side - au Volant in the 15 District Then try the Corsican restaurants, too
@@ThePasinis French recommending a tourist trap low quality restaurant? That's sad, I guess being french with poor tastes/low culinary knowledges is not mutually exclusive.
THAT IS SO FUNNY!!! On your next trip together, you should both go to a region or city in Italy that is NEW to both of you! That would be really interesting!
My husband won't wait 40 min at a Texas Road House. He would have left me in line and went to McDonald's before he waited all that time for a boiled egg & mayo with some garden slugs lol
Io mangio le lumache, da bambina piccola andavo a raccogliere specialmente quando pioveva, venivano fuori. Comunque;CI Sono molto modi da cucinarlo, Ed IL miglore e ` con la salsa di burro , aglio, prezzemolo. Buonissimi.
The place you ate at is a touristy restaurant. It is the McDonald's of French food. There are many other places with better quality food. I think Italian food is better, but French food is still hard to beat.
Hope you guys went to eat at actual/local cafes and brasseries instead of all tourist spots while you guys were in Paris. All of the average local/neighborhood places (non-tourist spots) I tried in Paris had really good food
It is really common in Asian countries like China and Korea where people enjoy pig intestines: really delicious and not at all weird foods. Even in the US it is really common to find dishes in Chinese restaurants and sometimes in Korean restaurants. Animal organs have been consumed for I don’t know how long in China for example and sometimes known as delicacy nowadays
To start with that style of restaurant was working class now student class.. not a gr8 representation of food in Paris.. I am on my way back from Venice and most of the food was terrible and overpriced..did not taste homemade and the seafood did not taste fresh.. so it is not Italy vs France.. it was a restaurant that you should not have tried. I find the average restaurants in Paris better than the average restaurants in Venice and cheaper.. just saying…
🐌 in honor of Paris - when I used to live in London I went to see my friends in Paris often. I wish they could have guided you to great food experiences but yes I prefer Italian cuisine as well.
As a Parisian, Bouillon Chartier is definitely not the best french restaurant if you're looking to try "good" French food. The restaurant is famous because it's been around for a long time and is sort of an historical place. People go for the experience and to take pictures. The food is not great, but decent for the price. I used to go a few years ago when it wasn't as famous amongst tourists and we didn't have to wait in line to get a table. Nowadays, there are much better options!
Exactly!
Yes, there is much better in Paris for sure
Last time i went was in 95 and there was already quite a line - Chartier is famous because they stick to the tradition and have had pretty much the same menu for a century.
@@mmelloffparis Any good recs? Im going next month!!!
Any better options you recommend? Im going next month!!
I’m French and your plates looked like from a school canteen. Also andouillette is really not for everybody. Cheers.
Is tripe for anyone?
@@JimCarner777absolutely not
Surely there are restaurants in France where you can walk in and get a table right away and have a decent meal. I would never ever ever wait in a series of lines like those you've shown unless at the end of the line they were handing out large sums of money.
yeah, they just go into tourist traps. it seems they need a guide or to do research.
@@Bananabear20 This restaurant was recommended to them by several French people. 😅
Me either. No restaurant is that good.
Yes.
Maybe a normal restaurant next to compare the food quality but different types of food from the urine soaked intestine sausage.
@@mumu87 Probably to keep them out of the restaurants that they actually do like. Lines like that scream tourist trap. So do menus written in English.
Please don’t judge All French food upon your experience in Paris because every town in France has its own culture and its own food specialties. If you really want to discover real French food, go to a city where prices are reasonable and food is really good. And really, I am French, and I absolutely can’t eat an Andouillette without throwing up. Begin with something easier!
I'm visiting Toulouse, Frayssinet and other small villages soon!! So excited.
We ordered this in a small village. We thought it's just a sausage with instestine. I am used in eating intestines but man! My soul left my body when I tried it and I think my brain shut down as well 🤣
I absolutely love french cuisine and there are some meals that are not for everybody like in every other culture. Me it's tripes and oysters (I just cant).
I was a little bit shocked to see they served the boeuf bourguignon with macaroni. The sides are usually mashed potatoes or onions and green beans.
@@Pierre-LucTremblay I just visited. Had amazing boef bourginion and they didn't even give me a side.
I regularly eat happily the most cursed foods in France, and I love the strongest cheeses, those that smell truly terribly, I could eat them every day. Yet, there's ONE thing I can't stand, it's andouillettes, even just the smell. Why even proposing that to tourists ? there should be a disclaimer next to it "this the no1 cursed food in the country be warned". Most French people don't like it either.
Yup, frozen food is...not a good sign when you're judging a restaurant's quality. I'm guessing they're doing it to catch up with demands but a restaurant that actually cares about the experience would NEVER serve frozen food! And a line out the door doesn't always mean the place you're going to is the best, but that it's more likely a tourist trap portrayed as an amazing experience. That cozy French restaurant Claudette you went to in NYC was better quality than this was, because yeah, you can just tell they cared!
Those cheap cream puffs are definitely an insult to their original recipe. So regarding cream puffs: The choux pastry used to make them was invented by the Italian head chef of the court of Catherine de' Medici, who came to France from Florence to marry Henry II in 1533. The original recipe changed as the years passed, as the pastry cook's art began to develop around the 17th century. It would take until the nineteenth century to be perfected by Marie-Antoine Carême
The purpose of a bouillon is to be cheap, the original goal was under 2 old francs , so less than 10€.
They could have had much better dinner at le train bleu, dinner starts at 75€ per person. Bouillon was 15€. You go to bouillon chartier for the history and the cheap price. The room itself is splandid and usually that's what the peoples want to see when they go there. There are other bouillons were you don't have to wait for hours, because the room is more modern/classic.
The "bouillon Chartier" isn't a high quality restaurant. It originally catered for 19th century Paris office workers with limited means. What's notable about it is that it didn't change anything, basically. People are still seated with complete strangers, and the menu hardly changed at all during the last 150 years. The appeal of the "bouillon Chartier"isn't the high quality food (they don't have that) but more or less the experience. Basically it's an unique place, an historical monument, not a great restaurant (although it isn't a *bad* restaurant either, just a relatively cheap restaurant.)
We just walked to a restaurant close to our hotel on Rue Cler and we loved every dish we ordered. We ended up eating there for dinner almost every night because the food was that good. Even their side salad was eye openingly delicious!
It is always the little "hole in the wall" places that are the best. Most places that have a line are usually mediocre.
@gix2lee going to paris soon staying at rue cler whats the name of restaurant? Thanks
e just walked to a restaurant close to our hotel on Rue Cler and we loved every dish we ordered. We ended up eating there for dinner almost every night because the food was that good. Even their side salad was eye openingly delicious! 🥰🥰😃😃😃
Bonne analyse Jessi, pour avoir autant de plats sur un menu, c'est un signe qu'il y a beaucoup de congelé. Chose utile à savoir pour manger dans des restaurants en France qui ne cuisinent qu'avec des produits frais: une carte extrêmement courte avec seulement 2 ou 3 entrées, 3 plats principaux max et 3 ou 4 desserts. Les plats principaux coûtent environ 15€.
Thank you so much for all your videos, you are a joy to watch. 🐌
They went for cheap and crowded....they got that :)))
Cela a toujours été le principe de Chartier, ce n'est pas nouveau. Il y a toujours eu autant de plats à la carte...
Yep, it's best to go to places with a small menu. The food is much more likely to be better.
The glass, the boeuf bourguignon with coquillettes... It makes me remember my childhood and the school canteen💗
Chartier c'est juste historique et pas cher, franchement pas le meilleur resto, mais bravo à vous d'avoir tenté les escargots et l'andouillette 👏👏😁 super vidéo 👌💙
The french fries and the macaroni tells me this is just a tourist trap.
This is NOT macaroni. It's coquillettes: these kind of pastas are kind of of "Proust madeleine" to all French people because that's what you're being served a lot when you're a kid. In no way you can call them a gastronomic dish, but then, her beef stew with coquillettes was priced less than 10 €, an incredible bargain in Paris. Those Bouillon are not gastronomic restaurants, they used to cater for the working forces. Don't expect to eat anything gastronomic there, but it's a cultural experience!
@@paristoptips And it has some better items on the menu. Any which way, you cant eat more inexpensive in Paris.
it isn't.
The thing is it's a restaurant serving dish you could find at home and the price are really really cheap. That's why the dish seem not outstanding, but the taste is good, what people would call comfort food.
A tourist trap is a restaurant overpriced and serving average dish.
the concept of a bouillon is to be cheap to serve everyone, so yes it's simple
As a Parisian : that's not a tourist trap but one of the oldest "bouillon", popular cuisine and not expensive, and the restaurant is beautiful inside
Mes enfants, si vous voulez goûter la vraie cuisine Française, fuyez Paris à tout prix!!! Dans les régions de province vous découvrirez des merveilles gastronomiques pour beaucoup moins cher et bien plus copieuses, goûteuses et savoureuses.😑.
Si. I mean Qui.
Bouillon Chartier isn't expensive. It's pretty much the point. They serve traditional French dishes at an affordable price. The "bouillons" were intended for office workers who weren't poor, but weren't making much money either, during the 19th century. This one is the only one left. Another restaurant in Paris goes by the same name, because it was originally identical, but it became over time a perfectly regular restaurant. This "bouillon Chartier" essentially serves the same food, and in the same conditions (people seated at the same table even though they're strangers) as they did 150 years ago. That's a quite interesting experience,and pretty unique in Paris. Even though, as many people pointed out, it's not the Paris restaurant where you'll find the best food, not by a long shot
il ne faut pas être aussi catégorique. Oui a Paris il y a beaucoup d'arnaques, beaucoup de fausse et mauvaise cuisine pour touristes,l'accueil des touristes pas à la hauteur, les serveurs sont désagréables, souvent même de la cuisine sous vide ou congelé, même pas faite maison, mais en cherchant bien on trouve des adresses authentiques vraiment très bonnes et pas trop chères. Malheureusement les touristes n'ont pas les bonnes informations et se font souvent piéger par ces restaurateurs peu scrupuleux.
So while eating snails is commonly associated with the French, different peoples of different periods have eaten snails! Lots of broken snail shells dating back to 10,700 BCE were found in a cave in southern Greece, implying they were eaten. They found the same thing in many sites of Iraq and western Iran from the late Pleistocene. Ancient Romans considered snails as an elite food, and the first written reference to snail farms comes from Ancient Rome. Roman breeder Quintus Fulvius Lippinus is considered the "father" of heliciculture, and while he feasibly studied domesticating other creatures like dormice and wild boar, he was famous for his big snail collection, and each snail was enormous themselves thanks to a fattening diet.
What about broomhead culture?🤣
Snails carry parasites. Totally disgusting.
I have tasted snails on a trip in morocco aswell, they eat snails too
Snails are eaten in Portugal, Spain and I'm sure they are in Italy as well amongst other locations in around the Med probably. I. Portugal/Spain they are called Caracóis/caracoles but you don't just get 6 and they are a summer snack/tapa. Usually in a broth alongside buttered toast... Very popular in the summer. Larger ones are called caracoletas and are also served the same way. They aren't an exotic delicacy that requires "fanciness" 😂
@SupremeLeaderKimJon-un
Archaeological research also has it that snails were eaten before Roman times in England. In any case, my husband, who was English, loved them! I don't and I am French - would eat them at someone else's place if they were put in front of me but that's about it. So, hats off to this couple for tucking into snails and apparently enjoying them - and no, this restaurant is probably far from the most reliable in Paris for freshness and authenticity... Wouldn't know, never been there!
So unfair to judge French cuisine based on a cheap tourist attraction. Paris is expensive, if you don’t pay the price, there is no way you have decent food in your plate.
But you can find better restaurant not expansive " tout fais maison...la c est de la chantilly en bombe, du surgelé et conserves..
It's mostly Parisian food. It's like trying food from Rome and thinking it's the food of all Italy.. In my part of France, the food is mostly mediterranean : olive oil, fish, a lot of vegetables, lemon, etc. I'm sure you heard of ratatouille or salade niçoise.
You're definitely right! The restaurants in the big cities often don't represent the real national cuisine , which in Italy as in France is above all regional !!!👍🇮🇹
sans parler d'une bonne socca Niçoise
@@gabrielesantucci6189 I'm from Normandy, but now I live in paris and I very much disagree, In Paris you can eat food from all over France, they are amazing restaurants specialiez from differents regions, I've eaten the best tougoule and escalope normande (traditionnal normand dishes) in Paris
It's "classical" French food. "Bouillon Chartier"is an extremely peculiar restaurant. Basically it didn't change anything since the 19th century when it was catering to middle-class office workers in Paris.The conditions are the same, the menu is pretty much the same. Going there is more about the experience than about the (average but cheap) quality of the food.
as French I had the chance to go to Roma and as a food lover I was excited to try stuff but of course as tourist, even being very careful and picky about the place to go, with my budget, I didn't succeed to find a restaurant that full fill my expectations and end up being disappointed (because I expected too much). BUT I know the italians classics and the quality of their products and I would NEVER judge an entire internationally famous gastronomic country like Italy based on my personal bad luck and/or lack of time/knowledge at that time. Vive Italy and their talents!
Like many countries, France has influences from surrounding countries, including Italy. It is about regions, not country. Sicilian food is very different than food from North Italy. Same for France. France has been internationally famous for its food, but especially for the fact that the concept of modern restaurant became a thing: after the revolution, all the chef cooks of the bourgeoisie opened places where the customers would have a quality experience within a clean, comfortable and decorated 'restaurant' with a menu, service, toilets, etc. Before that, you could only find something to eat in bars/taverns, surrounded by drunk people, you would need to bring your own knife and fork, and the choice was limited to whatever local product or whatever the wife of the owner would have time to cook.
Today in France and other countries, the regulation, normes, food safety stuff, taxes, etc... push the restaurant owners to not take risks and discourage talented hard workers to make great but simple food, but there are still a lot of beautiful and simple restaurant to enjoy :)
Italian food in Italy blew French food away...sorry!
@@pie0ful read again what I said. Sorry.
@@pie0ful Definitely not.
I'd have to agree with George Lei! Since 1985, whenever I am in Paris I have to visit my favorite, Brasserie Bofinger, an Alsatian "Belle Epoque" brasserie founded in 1864 near Place de La Bastille! It is famous for it's magnificent domed skylight (backlit) and worth a visit, they'll let you in to look during the day if they are not busy! Other suggestions would be Les Deux Magots (hangout for Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Picasso, Hemingway, Henry Miller among others) and continuing on the Left Bank, there are other famous hangouts of artists and writers (Hemingway etc.) Brasserie Lipp, Restaurant Polidor, and La Closerie des Lilas. I'm forgetting so many places, but one last one, another rather famous restaurant is Au Pied de Cochon! Don't short change yourself and get the wrong impression of "La Belle Cuisine" Bouillon Chartrier has been for more than a few decades now, an overrated tourist trap. Perhaps you two, being as delightfully young as you are, may not be familiar with Le Guide Michelin but get one for Paris or the red overall one. You just cannot go wrong with it. Even one or two crossed fork and spoons (the red ones are a higher rating) will reveal wonderful places to eat and which are often much less expensive. For hotels, more little birdies on rockers the more tranquil and quieter the place, the more little hotels the higher the rating and the higher the luxury and price.
I'm french and you won't ever see me eating snails or andouillettes, but there are a ton of great French dishes, you should give it another go in a better restaurant.
Donc là, pour vous le problème est pas la qualité mais le fait que vous n'aimiez pas ni les escargots ni l'andouillette. Cela ne veut pas dire que ce n'était pas bien fait !!!
@@jean-michelgaiffe3834 En effet, mais pourquoi s'initier à la cuisine française par des plats qui sont, dirons nous, des goûts acquis? Une bonne blanquette, des paupiettes, des bœuf bourguignon, etc...m'auraient semblé plus adaptés, sans compter que lorsqu'on attend trois heurs pour rentrer dans un restaurant, les attentes sont à leur paroxysme.
Or try other items from the Bouillon menu.
Finally a french here that doesn't sound so elitist about their food. Thumbs up.
SACRILEGE !!! Un sandwich à l'escargot !!! ^^
Loved his wink when he was helping you make your escargot sandwich.
Oh God, the sausage music.😅😅😅I'm rolling over here.
And, the look in your eyes after the escargot, priceless😅😅😅
Ive been several times to france and I have to say, their average level of food is better than in any other European country, Italy included. In Italy they have great food, but in France its another level, and I don't even particularly like the french, but their food has no rivals in Europe. In asia there are better cuisines, like the Chinese, indian and Japanese, Id say that Thai food is at the same level, but in Europe they're number one without doubt
Italian food outmatch the French food easily, on any level. It's like comparing a diamond jewel with a bronze one. You have to be etither a French guy, a troll, or a person who has never been in Italy
@@keyos1955 Um. Sir, of course you are right. 'Juan' may eat any food he likes just like anyone, but his comments are truly Hilarious. As for this video, I felt bad for Alessio for trying this stuff. Even though this is sort of French food at 'reasonable prices', I laughed at his reaction, because I know how he must have felt. In Italy for 'reasonable prices' you eat fantastic food! There is no such thing as bad food in Italy. Doesn't exist. All food in every region across the board is excellent.
@@fabrizio.guidi64pleure en silence rageur de rital
@@keyos1955 N'importe quoi. La seule chose que vous pouvez faire, c'est de foutre des putains de tomates de partout. Aucun délicatesse dans vos plats, c'est toujours la même chose. Arrêtez d'être jaloux...
@@JoBoK13 Ahahah how chaivinist and ignorant you can be? Your cuisine is butter and cheese everywhere, bland and repetitive flavor. The Italian cuisine not only is 10 times wider than French cuisine, but tomatoes probably.cover only the 5% of Italian recipes. Your gastronomy is quite overrated, I live in France and French people eat mostly Italian food
Considering the hype and line, the prices are not bad. 10€ for Beef Bourguignon and under 15€ for other main dishes, isn’t too shabby.
C'est pas cher car c'est pas fait sur place avec le personnel qui va avec et tous les ingrédients. C'est probablement de la cuisine industrielle achetée en gros, comme malheureusement plus de la moitié des restaurants Parisiens. Vu le volume de nourriture qu'il faudrait sortir tous les soirs, vous arrivez à vous imaginer le nombre de casseroles, de pôeles, de légumes, de viandes ? Je suis quasiment certaines qu'il n'y a presque pas de cuisiniers, mais beaucoup de commis qui ouvrent des paquets et des paquets de plats surgelés déjà préparés où il n'y a qu'à les passer au micro onde, et les frites déjà précuites et surgelées dans la friteuse.
@@catfrexfrecat1800 Très honnêtement je trouve ca vraiment chouette, je suis étudiant et c'est toujours un plaisir d'y allez certes peut être les produits sont très congeler mais on y mange bien et de plats qui rappelle la maison.
@@Simon-je6ck comme vous le dites, vous êtes jeune donc vous ne connaissez pas le goût des vrais produits et des vrais recettes. Je peux vous assuré que la différence est flagrante quand on a les papilles gustatives affutées. Néanmoins, effectement ça peut être sympa pour des personnes qui n'ont pas beaucoup de sous. Ce que je trouve très dommageable c'est pour les touristes qu'ils soient américains ou autres qui s'attendent à quelque chose de spécial vu la notoriété de la France en Gastronomie et qui tombent dans ces "pièges", et qui s'extasient sur du bourguignon coquillette digne d'une cantine d'un lycée du 93. Il y a encore des petits restau sympa pas trop chers à Paris qui vaillent le coup d'oeil pour peu que l'on prenne la peine de chercher. Plusieurs exemples trouvés en 2 secondes sur google "où manger à Paris pour moins de 15 €" ; La réserve du terroir dans le 4ème arrond. - Georgette, restaurant bistronomique dans le 6ème arrond. - Armande, restaurant traiteur patissier sur la butte montmartre, etc...
In my opinion, French cuisine is best enjoyed at a higher price range.
The "Bouillons" are a type of affordable restaurants, with very few "home made" products (mostly frozen, canned or already-cooked and vacuum packed products). It's ok for the price, but I wouldn't advise it if you want to have a true taste of French cuisine.
France is not Paris. In my city you can eat for 20€ for lunch and have starter, main dish and dessert. And everything Will be tasty, handmade and fresh. And far better than what parisian restaurants are serving to tourists. As a french Who did a cooking school many years ago, this isn't even the kind of restaurant I would go to.
"Bouillons" don't exist anymore. They were a 19th century feature. The only one left is the "Bouillon Chartier" where the authors of the video went. It's not famous for its cuisine, it's famous for basically not having changed anything during the last 150 years. Going there is a bit like going in 2124 to the last Mc Donald still existing.
I would never ever endure a line that long for any restaurant.
We went to France from New Orleans. Think how shocked we were to find out that Andoulliettes were NOT like Cajun Andouille sausages! It's chitlin's in a TUBE people!!!
Gross!
It is even more shocking to discover that a former French region doesn’t use the word « andouillettes » properly!
But after looking for more info, it seems that part of Louisiana still has a proper andouillettes! :)
Foul! 🤢
I agree andouillettes are very special. I hate them and only my dad will eat them. They have this weird taste.
So, you've taken the name of Andouillette, but it is not an real Andouillette.
Some french dishes includes:
Oignon soup
Beef burgundy
Coq au vin (rooster with wine)
Hachis parmentier patates douces et confit de canard (gratin with sweet potatoes et duck confit)
Poulet basquaise (chickpeas stuffed chicken)
Bouillabaisse (fishes stew with saffron)
Cassoulet (beans with assorted meats)
Quiche with cream and bacon and spinach
Zucchini terrine and carrots
Ratatouille
Navarrin (lamb with carots and mushrooms)
Boeuf carottes
Pois casse (peas soupe and bacon)
Salade nicoise (salad with olives, tuna and eggs)
Duck confit with prunes and berry sauce
Lentils with veal feet and carots
Some minor corrections:
"Some french dishes includes:"
French dishes include: ...
"Oignon soup"
Onion soup
"Beef burgundy"
Not wrong, but more commonly known as 'beef bourguignon' in the UK.
"Salade nicoise"
Often called a 'nicoise salad' in the UK (not sure about the US).
When I saw chitterlings I was screaming at the screen “don’t eat it!!!”
I agree lol 😂😂😂 yucky
aaaandouillette 😂
Tastes so good, but I can't look at it! Lol. Awww, Jessi. You got this!
I'm sorry but I was laughing my ass off that one of the things you stood in line for HOURS to eat is hard boiled eggs with mayo! LMAO 😂 No lines to eat those at my house we do that every week around here! LOL 🤣
Bouillon Chartier is like diner food so it’s not really that great…but in general in France a simple carrot or potato is transcendent. Produce and small batch artisan foods just taste better. Butter and oil in France is just phenomenal-used in that eggs mayo-, so while it does sounds simple “eggs with mayo” it’s super delicious because of the quality of product
Sushi is simple too sometimes simple things are good too
These eggs seem overcooked to me, I love them cooked for 8 minutes in boiling water then cooled for a minute in iced water
@@krislv9219YES this was my exact experience in Paris! I’m the US we cannot even conceive of fresh mayonnaise with real ingredients 😂
@@krislv9219Carrot and potatos are transcendent in France?... Ok lol Oil is definitely not phenomenal if you mean olive oil, the best comes from any number of Mediterranean countries from Portugal to Turkey
Love your honesty and description of the food.. always look forward to your videos and adventures
People pay money to be crammed next to someone and eat boiled eggs and Mayo! Wild! 😂
yes but the oeuf mayonnaise was excellent! 😂
People pay (little) monney to experience the oldschool and cheap parisian cuisine, that's actually not that wild, people paye 10x this price to watch ahtletes running after a balloon...
Even for french ppl , andouillette is a really special Meal..coz it strong smell Among others..
Yeah,you love or ate it
You are so very gracious in your disappointment. As a typical American, I would have been way more forward in my comments. Thank you for showing me a far more gentle and kind way to be
I worked for several months in Brescia, a few years ago. Love northern Italy. Really enjoy your content.
Tourist trap-the queue, the plastic basket !
Very cheap tourist trap.. and the same price for everyone
Parisian here, it's not at all a tourist trap, it's just a typical bouillon, there is queue because it always been like that since, most of bouillon doesent have reservation, your suposed to eat fast and leave the place quickly, I've often went there during my studies because it's really cheap and serve comforting food you will only find at home, sure you could get way better versions of thoses meals at others restaurants but it get pricey, anyway it's cheap, traditional, and good.
Not at all. It's a "eating hall". It's not supposed to be fancy. Tight, paper table cloth, fast and not too expensive comfort food.
Alessio is well aware that in European countries you have different cuisine in different parts of the of the country. It is exactly the same in Italy.
Nothing like spending thousands of dollars on a vacation then deciding to wait in extra long lines 👌
If you're in Paris and you want the experience of that really traditional bistro style (waiters in black and white, wood and mirrors on the walls and ceiling etc), but don't want to end up in a tourist trap/in line with a bazillion of tourists, try the bistro Chantefable in the 20th arrondissement (close to place Gambetta). It's really nice and I always take visitors there who want the experience.
And in general: Get away from the boulevards and into the quatiers, that's where you find a lot of amazing bistrots and restaurants where you get much better food (from very traditional to very modern) for more humane prices (not cheap though, it's still Paris).
The food looked decent but a tip for the future not every line at a restaurant is a sign of quality. Better research neighborhood restaurants/shops where mainly the locals
eat to get authentic, affordable and good food. I had my best food experiences all over Europe in small often nondescript restaurants/shops.
You're correct. My favourite brasserie is la Lorraine in the 17 district where us Parisian go. Down arc de triomphe, subway place des ternes.
Many Corsica , basques, restaurants too.
Bouillon chartier is becoming trendy for tourist serving food that we cook at home.
Exactly
Many years ago I was eating lunch in Rouen with a bunch of fellow Brits working on the same project.
They all ordered burgers and french fries, I asked for andouillette and the waiter made a point of asking me if I knew what I was ordering.
From many trips to France and being an offal lover I love the strong chewy taste of andouille sausage, just as I love my haggis and tripe !
Awww your loss. All of that looks absolutely heavenly and delicious. To each their own. Vive la 🇫🇷
Merci Emily :)
Greetings from Paris
This guy's whole raison d'etre is to Sh*t on France and make videos, it's quite pathetic and picayune.
3:51 with bread! 😂😂😂😂😂
I am french and never heard of bouillon chartier, it seems super weird to wait so long time for such basic food, I mean I would never buy oeuf mayo or poireau vinaigrette when out at a restaurant, that's the kind of things people make at home! I am not brave enough for escargots, and boeuf bourgignon is good but also easy to make, some andouilltes are good, I like the jargeau ones. desserts seemed a bit boring.
please try more places! I am sure you can find much better than that.
You never heard of it ? What a pitty!! You probably from a small suburb. I'm French and Bouillon Chartier is an institution !! It might have changed lately but I remember it from my childhood : a beautiful, old, restaurant inside and popular not expensive and good good, Magic !!
@@SarahC-S-i9r happy to hear it used to be good yes I grew up in a suburb of nantes, and my adult life I spend in the countryside still know some famous places in paris, but not that one
Les "bouillons" étaient des restaurants qui servaient des plats traditionnels à des prix assez bas, mais dans un joli décor, pour les employés de bureau travaillant à Paris au 19eme siècle. Un peu des cantines, au dessus du niveau des ouvriers, mais en dessous du niveau des bourgeois. "Chartier" était en quelque sorte une des "chaînes" de restaurants de ce type. Il y avait plusieurs "bouillon Chartier" à Paris. Au fil du temps, presque tous les "bouillons" ont disparu, et le "bouillon Chartier" montré dans cette vidéo est un des seuls qui restent (en fait il y a un autre "bouillon Chartier" indépendant à Paris, sur la rive gauche, mais maintenant, c'est juste un restaurant traditionnel avec un décor de l'époque.) Ce qu'il a de particulier est qu'il n'a essentiellement jamais changé. On fait toujours la queue, on s'assoit toujours à côté de gens qu'on ne connaît pas, on est toujours dans le même décor du 19eme siècle, on vous sert toujours les même plats qu'il y a 150 ans, pas trop chers pour Paris, mais pas non plus de grande qualité. C'est son originalité qui fait la célébrité du bouillon Chartier, pas la qualité de la cuisine. Il est installé dans un quartier populaire de Paris, et il y a quelques décennies, sa clientèle était toujours des gens qui voulaient manger pour pas trop cher, mais maintenant les gens y vont surtout pour voir, parce qu'il est célèbre et différent (c'est un grand (en surface) restaurant, qui peut accueillir beaucoup de clients, surtout bien tassés les uns contre les autres).
@@olivierdastein2604 merci pour le contexte historique, je comprends maintenant . je ne suis pas parisienne
Et pourtant une bonne andouillette qu’est ce que c’est bon !
This is what happened to me in Boston. Every bowl of clam chowder I had tasted like it was canned. The baked beans and the rolls at the Parker House hotel tasted like all of the baked beans and rolls I’ve had before. And the Boston Cream Pie? Tasted like Sara Lee. Incredibly disappointed.
That's happened to me with gumbo in New Orleans. Lesson learned.
lmaooo! You GO, Jessie! I probably couldn't look at those snails either.. I have too many in my yard and talk to them before I relocate them! lol lol!
The music cracked me up when your were about to eat the sausage (if I can
call it that 😝) And when Alessio asked if that was pig leg, I laughed out loud, you two are so funny. No way I would wait that long in line, even for good food, just saying.
Bouillon Chartier serves traditional French cuisine at affordable prices -thus the queue-; it was historically a labour workers canteen. We get what we pay for : for better quality, you have to double the price, at least. Yes, andouillette takes time to appreciate! Have it with beer, not wine.
Tip : many similar restaurants have the "Bouillon" (i.e. "broth") term attached to its name and serve similar dishes at a low price : Bouillon Julien, Bouillon Pigalle, Bouillon Racine... are other options in Paris; you'll find the same in most French cities.
Tourist trap !!!
Les parisiens vont chez Chartier parce que c'est abordable et qu'on en a pour notre argent mais ceux qui veulent se faire vraiment plaisir savent qu'il ne faut pas se rendre là-bas ! La qualité est proportionnelle au prix
Et c'est d'autant plus désolant qu'à quelques mètres il y a de très bon restos
I lived in Italy and France. Sorry french people, but italian cuisine > French Cuisine
I went there several years ago, it's frozen industrial food. A trap for tourists.
Most patrons are in fact Parisians. This restaurant is pretty much an historical landmark, not a place where you go to enjoy the food. And the prices are low, by comparison with other Parisian restaurants (and many serve you frozen food as well.)
As a Parisian, Chartier is without a doubt the worst Brasserie in Paris but it is also the cheapest, in fact Chartier is an institution where workers went for cheap lunch since 1896. It's been 40 years since I haven't gone back and there are always the same hard boiled eggs mayonnaise, the same awful boiled leeks (which you find good) and the same frozen snails (which you obviously also find good with the worst industrial bread in Paris...) and that you eat like Martians who have just landed on earth... Then comes the andouillette which could be compared to Scottish Haggis, I can understand that the taste is a little strong when you are not used to it and even as a Frenchman it's too strong for me but on the other hand you appreciate the macaroni that we gave in our canteens when I was little (terrible...) and the boiled beef that we call Boeuf bourgignon (at Chartier) . You taste like you write down a dictation, yes or no without even explaining to your subscribers the why of your decision. You are very nice young people but your video is not really interesting for these reasons without any justification, we would have liked more arguments, I did not go as far as desert...
Macaroni and boef borguignon?! Might as well have a sandwich with a side of rice 😂
It leaves the impression that the kitchen ran out of potatoes.
@@americanmade4791 I dunno, that just seems like a really odd substitution 😆
Coquillettes, not macaroni and that is pretty common.
I feel like it's super hilarious that you went to a restaurant with frozen fries and are reviewing it like it was fine dining. But your video will probably help other tourists not get fooled. Hilarious video guys!
I went to the French Riviera, Provence, and had fantastic meals. In fancy restaurants and in normal places. I'm not a fan of snails. Tried them but didn't like them. Mushrooms are better😂 The desserts were delicious though! Everywhere! And the rosé wine in Provence is 👌👍
So if you go back to southern France try the little snails from the south we call them : " Les petits gris " I'm not found of snails either but I could eat smal snails, whereas the big one put me off !
Boeuf bourguignon and pastas make me want to trow up, you can find really better and cheaper restaurant with no wait at all
US-Americans getting traumatised by every food what is not a burger.
France has the third highest consumption of fast food in the world. They love the good American chains like McDonalds and Burger King, but they also enjoy disgusting slop like "French Tacos"
pays de la malbouffe
@@jensgroeger4690 US white Americans*
White people
Cope more.
jamais je vais dans un resto avec une telle file d'attente ; où est le plaisir ??
Ma neppure io, prendo la macchina e vado da un' altra parte. Non sto in fila per un'ora.
Surtout pour bouffer des coquillettes, quelle arnaque
le plaisir de manger des poireaux nature et des oeufs mayo
My wife and I rarely go to sit down restaurants in Europe. We love street and casual dining. And I believe the food quality is better and cheaper to boot
What street food do you eat in France?
That seems sad. There are hundreds of thousands of great restaurants in Europe, at any price point. I'll acknowledge that it can be a bit of a task to find the good ones, but they are there.
Just go to Portugal and eat I'd say literally anywhere lol
Talking nonsense.
Alession taking the snail out of the shell to make a sandwich for Jessi is 🥹💕
There is a simple thing to know, when the menu is too long, run. It's all frozen food and the Boeuf Bourguignon with the maccaroni (coquiettes in french), this is not ok, an ok restaurant would have served it with mashed potatoes (purée de pomme de terre) or with a salad on the side. As a french native, I'm so annoyed by tourist traps. I just looked it up on tripadvisor and you're definitely not the only one who got the bad quality frozen fries. Apparently, quality wise the restaurant is not as good as before. At least you avoided Paris under the trashes and the recent protests, it's not the right moment to do tourism in Paris
Wrong. In south east, like in Lyon, they served it with maccaroni.
@@lmnll2742 Je ne connais pas les traditions a lyon mais en temps que vosgien ça n'as jamais été ok, après c'est peut être une question de rigionalités
@@Inconito___ D'où je viens, à l'ouest, c'est servi avec des patates. Mais si il en reste pour le lendemain, on fait des pâtes. Moins bon quand même.
I am impressed with how professional and hospitable the wait staff were. Awesome 👏
I lived in Paris for 13 years but I never expected that I was supposed to like eating all French specialties. I never became a cheese, mushroom, foie gras or sausage lover but there was still so much I loved. But please boeuf bourgignon with pâtes! I would have sent it back and asked for potatoes with it!.
exactly right??? what the heck was the "chef" thinking??
It is very common to eat a bourguignon with pasta. It pairs vert well with the thick sauce. But indeed the one served was not the most best looking one.
There is nothing wrong to eat Boeuf bourguignon with pastas, with Tagiatelles or the French speciality the coquillettes.
The French habit of eating pasta as a side to all sorts of stews is something I will never, ever accept. It is wrong. Don't do it.
I'm french and back home we very much ate Boeuf Bourguignon with pasta, it's very common
Bouillon Chartier is an "historic" restaurant but from decades now is only a tourist "trap" and I don't know any French who would go eat there. Maybe once only for taking a few pictures cause they are beautiful restaurants. But for sure not for the food. It is almost as if an Italian would go rate "italian food" in an Olive garden. In any case for these very low prices it is strictly impossible to have good food made by real chefs with fresh and high quality products, especially in a super expensive city as Paris. 10 € for a main dish and less than 5 € for desert it is almost below the profit limit, so it means that they have to cook fast and with cheap products, even in the "province" outside of Paris it is impossible to have real good French food for these prices.
So sorry you guys had a bad experience but with such a restaurant choice it was inevitable
damn I really wish i could give you an actual local list of restaurants to avoid these tourist traps like bouillon chartier. Any restaurants with lines in Paris should be avoided! The best restaurants in Paris require reservations!
The music😂😂😂😂 the double hand😂😂😂😂 brilliant
hahahah Grazie mille❤️
What a nightmare. Stand in line for forever and then share table with strangers. I would pay to get out of there 😂
Honnestly, 90% of the time when you share a table you don’t notice it. You don’t listen to their conversation and they don’t care about yours.
For the remaining 10%, you can meet great people… or not.
@@adrienhb8763 Well, I didn't say anything about that. I just don't like to have dinner with strangers.
@@DONTHASSLETHEHOFF What was I saying is "give it a chance". ;)
@@adrienhb8763 I have. And I don't like it mate. But hey, everyone is different 😀
Indeed. But try again. Once is never enough. ;)
You two are so adorable! ❤
When you see a line that long just walk away. Even if good on a slow night there's no way any restaurant can perform to standard without cranking out an assembly line of set dishes. This experience looked to me to be on par with Olive Garden but with Paris prices. Why . . . just why?
You come to Bordeaux. We'll help you to find a good magret de canard, a salade de gésiers and a café gourmand in a nice small restaurant.
Andouillette, snails are extreme French food. You don't need to do that or to queue. You can eat good local food at reasonable prices without queuing for hours.
Prices not bad for Paris, though !
escargot! yes!
Love your content! I enjoy watching your channel and I always look forward to seeing what you two will be doing next! Ciao! 🐌
Thanks so much 😊 ❤️
Unless you are a real foodie, it's hard to recommend restaurants to tourists in your own home town. Because usually in your own town, you just go to some place close and cheap. Not necessarily the ultimate dining experience.
Having grown up in Europe, let me tell you that whenever you eat any internal organs, be prepared for the shock of the smell, taste or texture. Brains, eyes, hearts, stomachs, livers, spleen, kidneys and intestines are very common, all over the world. Here in the US, Rocky Mountain Oysters (bull testicles), are a delicacy. It's the efficiency of using the whole animal. My grandmother loved them all. My mom, some. Me, none. Blame it on McDonald's. 😅
Organic meat is very good for you, and I think our generation is doing ourselves a disservice. Having said that, I'll skip the colon. 😅 I can imagine that being tough to eat.
Please You need to come to México, it would be amazing to see your reaction
So ,they never return alive?
Oh sure, nothing wrong with cartels and half of Mexico considered dangerous zone by US govt/
So nice to see Alessio embrace his French heritage!
Seems like the crazy queue is due to the affordable prices? Hey, the mains are cheaper than Cedric Grolet's cookie! 😂 🐌🐌🐌
hahahahaha yes it is like a cookie from Cedric
Just an idea, but maybe they don't bother with the quality as much anymore in some very popular and crowded places because there so many customers to serve. Guess, you'd find something more authentic and interesting in some smaller and less crowded resstaurant a bit futher away from the city centre.
I find that escargot has the taste of garlicy rubber bands. If you could taste dirt they weren't put in cornmeal for a few days to clean them out. Until next time much love💖💖
I absolutely LOOOOOVE andouillette 😍😍
Bouillon chartier launch a full distribution therefore, they are buying food frozen to wholesalers to match volume. We are not going to those mass tourist restaurant
this resturante was recommended by many french people! and they told us that the food is good! the two girls who are at our side to us were French 🤷🏻♂️
@@ThePasinis really sorry for you. It was surely recommended due to none stop presence on tik tok😁🤭🤣😭 don't trust digital marketing to feed your stomach🤣. Here my addresses as Parisian:
- la Lorraine a "brasserie" located place des ternes subway, down the arc de triomphe. Typical of Paris family destination. No frozen food. Not cheap, I agree
- chez sebillon: to eat the best lamb (house specialty) and I recommend eclair au Chocolat as dessert ( you will be amazed by the size). Located porte maillot on neuilly side
- au Volant in the 15 District
Then try the Corsican restaurants, too
@@ThePasinis French recommending a tourist trap low quality restaurant? That's sad, I guess being french with poor tastes/low culinary knowledges is not mutually exclusive.
The way he said “I’ll make you a sandwich” then winks at her 🥹
THAT IS SO FUNNY!!! On your next trip together, you should both go to a region or city in Italy that is NEW to both of you! That would be really interesting!
300K here we come. Thank you for the vid. Makes my day/week :)
My husband won't wait 40 min at a Texas Road House. He would have left me in line and went to McDonald's before he waited all that time for a boiled egg & mayo with some garden slugs lol
Catch the garden slugs quicker outside, lol.
@@saratemp790 all I can think of is the movie Turbo when I see slugs
When Alessio winks at Jessi ❤️
🐌 Great review!! Loved it!!❤❤❤
grazie mille per aver guardato tutto il video❤️
Io mangio le lumache, da bambina piccola andavo a raccogliere specialmente quando pioveva, venivano fuori. Comunque;CI Sono molto modi da cucinarlo, Ed IL miglore e ` con la salsa di burro , aglio, prezzemolo. Buonissimi.
The place you ate at is a touristy restaurant. It is the McDonald's of French food. There are many other places with better quality food. I think Italian food is better, but French food is still hard to beat.
I love escargot however they need to be served in a buttery garlic sauce so you can dip your bread in it when finished! Great video guys!
As a french 55 YO, i do not even thought at 14 mn you imagined that pasta 'coquillette" was a possible french choice !
❤️ your reviews! I'm glad you used comparisons, like 'the snail is like a raw mushroom' it helps us get an idea of texture-- otherwise......🤢
You went to the wrong place. Bouillon Chartier is a touristic place. It was on 15 years ago. Now it’s crowded.
Hope you guys went to eat at actual/local cafes and brasseries instead of all tourist spots while you guys were in Paris. All of the average local/neighborhood places (non-tourist spots) I tried in Paris had really good food
It is really common in Asian countries like China and Korea where people enjoy pig intestines: really delicious and not at all weird foods. Even in the US it is really common to find dishes in Chinese restaurants and sometimes in Korean restaurants. Animal organs have been consumed for I don’t know how long in China for example and sometimes known as delicacy nowadays
To start with that style of restaurant was working class now student class.. not a gr8 representation of food in Paris.. I am on my way back from Venice and most of the food was terrible and overpriced..did not taste homemade and the seafood did not taste fresh.. so it is not Italy vs France.. it was a restaurant that you should not have tried. I find the average restaurants in Paris better than the average restaurants in Venice and cheaper.. just saying…
Venez dans ma region de Champagne..à Troyes pour y goûter une des spécialités..l andouillette ...c'est à deguster
🐌 in honor of Paris - when I used to live in London I went to see my friends in Paris often. I wish they could have guided you to great food experiences but yes I prefer Italian cuisine as well.
I just love you guys honestly
Chitlins are better in the Southern part of the US. Never had a bad meal in France, but we avoided touristy places.
we go even normal restaurant and this restaurant is not a tourist trap it is recommended by french people
Also for the andouillette, you need to take a bite with the chips. Ask for extra mustard on the table.