Trying restaurants IN the Paris metro

[@cammiearchuleta7269]

I appreciate your sacrifice and bravery for trying these places out for all of us.

[@TheModernInvestor]

You should be adding the words "In Paris" more in your titles, it'll help with search function. "They make food IN the metro In Paris?" - helps you get found and also helps spread your vast knowledge about the city to other people! Been watching your videos for years, keep up the good work!

[@JaySwanson]

Fair call! I had it in there but just removed it last second for brevity. Let's switch it up

[@kirstythomson7539]

Loved the way Cooper is looking at you towards the end of the video, hanging on your every word, dear soul, such a great traveling companion!

[@JaySwanson]

he's the best

[@parisisima8934]

I have often wanted to try the fruit at République. I would say go to a boulangerie artisanale anywhere and get a fresh pain au chocolat for 1€30 or rather than a metro cookie for 2€40. The sandwiches from the Pyrénéen place at Franklin Roosevelt always look good too!

[@sandy.art.lapetitedoe2301]

I completely agree! I'd like to add that, based on my experiences, other train stations in France, Italy, the UK, and even Switzerland have consistently been subpar in food quality. They serve as a last resort when you're traveling, hungry, and left with no better options.

[@JaySwanson]

What blows my mind in France is how slow service still is in train stations where people literally have trains to catch

[@sandy.art.lapetitedoe2301]

@@JaySwanson LOL, true, so true😂

[@robinzaleski5]

I've been watching you for a couple of years now and I think this is the most French we've ever heard you speak in one video! 🤩

[@JaySwanson]

Trying to up my French output on the vlogs!

[@iniabellepaz445]

Hi Jay, thank you for sharing and saving us from that coffee and sandwich 😂. Love Cooper sticker! Stay well

[@JaySwanson]

My pleasure

[@sampi59]

Visiting Paris from Texas - arriving early Good Friday morning. Chulita is 45 min walk from my Airbnb rental on the Left Bank along the Siene next door to Shakespeare and Company. Will definitely give it a try. Thanks!

[@JaySwanson]

Solid walk!

[@scottfbradley]

Jay - great video. It was nice to hear your “petites interactions” in French with shop workers (and fellow dog owners). Confirming for me, an A2 on a great/lucky day to hear that I’m generally choosing right when having similar interactions while in France. In addition to helping normalize the idea of France for your fellow Americans, I think you ought to revisit helping your followers understand how beneficial mastering even a few of these phrases are to the experience of visiting. You have some phrase suggestions in your guide; without becoming a “Learn French With Jay” channel it might be nice to reinforce some of that with seeing your actual interactions here on the KZbins. Very enjoyable watch.

[@Rich-zb7vc]

when i lived in Europe, i loved going to france, and used my "pig latin" french. people were always nice to me, struggled with me and kept it in french so id improve, whereas in Holland people switched to English so fast I never learned more than a few phrases

[@JaySwanson]

I thought you might enjoy a bit more French thrown in! I'll try to keep it up as we go

[@agyos]

Yes! I was straining my ears, and loving the communion…bad coffee notwithstanding!

[@oakpope]

In Auber, there used to be more choices, I don't know if it exists still.

[@JaySwanson]

Ah yeah. Opera too. Maybe a sequel sometime?

[@GreigHowlett]

Travelling to Europe for the last 5 years from North America, always through Paris and then onward by train, we always look forward to grabbing a sandwich au jambon et au fromage sur une baguette in the train station. Something we’d NEVER do here. For “fast food” it’s always been way better than most of what we’ve eaten anywhere at home … Although you’re so right, in comparison to everything else in Paris, it’s still SO MUCH better than North America 😊. LOVE your stuff!

[@Rich-zb7vc]

tokyo has the best restaurants in the metro. enjoyed the video

[@JaySwanson]

I can believe that!

[@nadia.lewis.]

Jiro has a Michelin starred restaurant in the Tokyo metro! First time they handed out stars to a restaurant with a bathroom down the hall. 😂

[@Rich-zb7vc]

@@nadia.lewis. in the Ginza station!

[@bigbitebones]

I think I saw Cooper eating something off the floor while you were talking 😮😮😮. It was on the part of the purple chairs 😂😂😂

[@JaySwanson]

He's a lil sneak 😆

[@alexgarzaphoto]

Thank you so much for all the great content. I'll be there for my first time soon. Any chance you can talk about the strike happening at the Eiffel tower? Merci. :)

[@TransConBrilliance]

Have you had coffee from the green vending machines? I'm just impressed that there are coffee vending machines with beans and organic.

[@JaySwanson]

Not in the metro, but others in office buildings around the city. Not... great... 😆

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I’d love to share a sandwich on the go with Jay in the Metro. That sounds fun, I think.

[@dfrankpgh]

This is an in left field comment but I am from NY and would be interested in hearing more about dog culture in Paris. You rarely see them on the Subway and they aren't allowed in restaurants. I assume that is different in Paris?

[@JaySwanson]

Super different. I'll have to make a vlog or two

[@carlf.9035]

How you place your camera in such busy areas especially metro where lots of pick pocketers are is quite impressive. That is an art and great accomplishment in of itself. Looks like we will have to try one of these underground food stands, except the coffee maybe 😉 I did buy a top down there once as an emergency, it was surprisingly nice. Fun topic.

[@JaySwanson]

I mean... I wouldn't 😆 But if you're desperately hungry and in a hurry, you won't die

[@carlf.9035]

@@JaySwanson 😅okay good tip will remember ☺️

[@ADAtrips]

That was fun. 🎉 I live by the rule: I don’t complain about the coffee before 9:00 am. 😂 Around fhe world the best food in a ‘metro’ is in Japan. 🌴🌴Aloha

[@debbielarsen4831]

Are masks no longer required on the trains? When I looked at the website it said that masks are still required on the Metro. Thanks for any info on this.

[@JaySwanson]

They haven't been required for a long time 🙏

[@danielhelm8182]

How about museum food? We were hungry and tried the cafeteria at Musee Dorsay. I would not recommend it, but it beat starving, maybe.

[@JaySwanson]

Haha. I was thinking about it but yeah, no 😆

[@Lindsey_Tramuta]

Ok these are definitely not made IN the metro (they're really not going to have kitchen space!) but most definitely in a central lab :) :)

[@JaySwanson]

You can come with me to Auber and Opera next time 😎

[@Lindsey_Tramuta]

@@JaySwanson FINE BUT ALSO PASS 😜

[@carolbrenner3121]

Happy new virgo moon ❤

[@JaySwanson]

🥂🌛

[@Guason402tv]

Jay, in 2018 I was in Paris and has a Chicken Panini Sandwich over by the Place Du Trocadero from a Vendor. Do you know if they are still there? Best freaking Panini I have ever had!

[@pokeyjeanne]

It happens... best ham and cheese sandwich ever, next to the tracks in Gare de Lyon

[@Notimportant1995]

I had a young woman eating a hot tunafish baguette in the middle of summer on the metro. In that moment I’m fairly sure everybody in the train car was aligned on their views of whether or not assault should be legalised.

[@JaySwanson]

😆

[@sleis418]

How many smiles does Cooper get on the metro? It is pretty tough to break the disinterested stares, but I bet he’s up to the task.

[@JaySwanson]

He certainly is 😆

[@RH1812]

Got my first fortnightly email. I have maybe 2 of the fears and yes Invincible is great and good luck tinkling the not-ivories

[@JaySwanson]

🥂

[@1BigBucks1]

Metro content 👍🚋

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I LOVE SNACK DISCOURSE

[@JaySwanson]

😆

[@MicahMann]

Lionel Richie cameo. HAHA

[@JaySwanson]

You never know when he'll strike

[@erikat5678]

No, no, no… subway food! lol😂🤢

[@JaySwanson]

😆

[@erikat5678]

Thank you for taking the hit, but even Paris has its limits in fine cuisine! 😅

[@willnelson3362]

This is a comment on your video from yesterday (“You Bought the Lie”), which was really wonderful. I am commenting here to improve the chances you read my comment. One of the most famous and influential “PK’s” in history is Friedrich Nietzsche. You seem like you’re currently very far from a Nietzschean (if you’re familiar with N, you’re probably laughing right now!), but you might still find tremendous value in wrestling with his works. I have found them indispensable in understanding myself and the world. Arguably, he went through what you went through, what many of us have gone through, but he had an encyclopedic knowledge of other cultures, and so could see everything from profoundly surprising perspectives. One of the many things I learned from reading N is that there are wildly different versions of Christianity. There’s Jesus’ own version, which he describes as garbled, but mainly a kind of complete abdication, “do not fight back”. There’s Paul’s version, which he describes as rooted in jealousy, revenge, and “ressentiment”. And then there’s the version from your youth and young adulthood, which N alluded to countless times, but I can’t remember a specific passage focused on it. It sounds like a kind of continuation of Paul’s version, like sophist philosophers doing bad philosophy, giving “reasoning” a bad name by doing it poorly. "Semantic stop signs" are an automatic F! N had considerable respect for Jesus and nothing but contempt for Paul and his followers, indeed, the entire Christian Church. He nevertheless rejected Jesus’ teachings in favor of something closer to a Homeric/Hellenic/Greek/Roman/pagan world view. Think of N as a thorough scouring and flaying of all remaining bits of the Judeo-Christian world view from your philosophical bones. After the electro-shock therapy of reading N, you can then carefully choose what parts of the wreckage of Rome and Jerusalem you'd like to salvage. (The last allusion is from a famous passage in On Genealogy of Morals. It hits like a haymaker.) After reading N, you may be shocked at how your choices change.

[@agyos]

Appreciating your share. Thank you!

[@JaySwanson]

It's been a bit since I've read up on Monsieur N. Thanks for sharing!

[@willnelson3362]

@@JaySwanson N quote of the day: "Faith, must also be a form of sickness, and all straight, honest, scientific paths to knowledge must be rejected by the church as forbidden paths. Even doubt is a sin. ... Whatever makes sick is good; whatever comes out of fullness, out of superabundance, out of power, is evil-thus feels the believer." Let me know if you'd like some advice on where to start with N.

[@rc9272]

👍😎

[@JaySwanson]

🍕😎

[@flatironnewyork]

I don't suppose Noir's about to open a location underground? 😆 Too bad there's not a Metro version of Autogrill....

[@JaySwanson]

that would be pretty cool, a metro Noir

[@jesuisbruna]

I saw rats on the foods in a Paul at the train sation in Paris. I’ll definitly do not eat those Foods.

[@JaySwanson]

yikes!

[@YesYouAreAbsolutelyCorrect]

And judging by the smell of this city you can piss and shit two steps away from the counter!

[@JaySwanson]

I've been in worse smelling cities - a city is a city!

[@YesYouAreAbsolutelyCorrect]

​@@JaySwanson Cool, I've been to a village destroyed by a frost heave. Nobody compares it to Paris. Comparing European capitals, it's hard to find one that smells worse and gets the same undeserved reverence as Paris.