GETTING COFFEE AT A CAFÉ IN FRANCE... EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! 

Jackie ! Anyone who is fortunate enough to encounter you at a cafe will be very delighted--I am sure ! ! You paint a wonderful picture of France in the 60's. Stay awesome !

Except in the US it would be dangerous to talk about politics at a cafe.

Did you make a confusion between chocolat liégeois and chocolat Viennois ? the first one is a mix chocolate /vanilla ice cream topped w/ whipped cream , the second one is hot chocolate topped w/ whipped cream.

@@claude_1c74 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_li%C3%A9geois

so what. If you take a seat at Venice you pay 20 Euros only for sitting :-)

@@MichaelTheophilus906 As if your opinion on the subject matters....

Yup. U r tight. She’s wonderful. Why don’t u tell us about ur trips after u come back ?! An idea.

Her tips are fabulous. I found her as I was moving to France and her tips have been super helpful. 🥰

did you survive Lyon?

@@barfuss2007 It was absolutely amazing, I loved Lyon more than Paris.

Oh please do!

Hi Alan, thank you Not sure I'll do a video specifically on that for my channel but I did do a post over on the blog in case it's of interest: www.ouiinfrance.com/french-beauty-skincare-essentials

Is there not a French cafe culture in French New Caledonia ?!

@@claude_1c74 Yes, of course. New Caledonia is a little France in the Pacific. But I live in the States now...since 1982.

Yes, indeed sometimes you get really tiny desserts and can be a bit disappointing while other times it’s awesome!

au bar on commande: garçon! un petit noir! ce que google traduit en anglais par: < boy! a little black! >

@@danielg5072 Ouais, c'est ce qu'on appelle une traduction littérale, mot à mot et parfois c'est impossible pour quelq'un qui ne parle pas français depuis l'enfance de savoir si c'est correct.... 'Boy', ça pourrait même être ressenti comme un relent de colonialisme paternaliste, à éviter absolument 😱...❕ Il vaut mieux utiliser 'Reverso Context' (à mon avis) pour ce genre de traduction de la langue vernaculaire. On y voit des exemples de traduction en contexte càd avec des extraits de textes de la langue de départ et leurs traductions ce qui permet de mieux choisir. Un garçon de café c'est bien sûr un 'waiter' ou plus spécifiquement un 'coffee-shop-guy'. Quant au 'petit noir', l'application comprend bien que c'est un 'coffee' ou mieux un 'expresso'. J'ai quand même remarqué qu'avec un peu d'IA intégrée dans 'Google Traduction ', les résultats sont de plus en plus pertinents pour ce type de traduction depuis quelques temps.

@@BertrandNelson-Paris Exactement. Surtout en Amérique. Je ne sais pas si dans tous les pays de langue anglaise, le mot enfantin boy, est si connoté.

@@danielg5072 Salut. On est bien d'accord que ce n'est pas du côté enfantin de ‹boy› dont je parlais mais plutôt de la façon de s'adresser aux domestiques locaux (chaque famille avait son 'boy', on parlait plus rarement de ses boys au pluriel comme si le boy était un accessoire essentiel) ou même aux Inconnus dans la rue que les expatriés dans les colonies utilisaient. C'était surtout réducteur car tout ces 'indigènes' étaient interpelés par 'boy', ce qui annihilait l'individu, la personnalité (car même si on peut se dire que ça remplaçait 'Monsieur', la politesse s'arrêtait là, pas de patronyme ou de prénom demandés).

That's perfect because I'll be going next month and all I like and drink is strong coffee..thanks for confirming 🙂

You're so sweet, thank you!

Welcome, thank you Annie!

Excellent choice!! They are so good!

I discovered Café Gourmand last year...I am never ordering a regular coffee ever when visiting France. We go every year.

Gourmand ! lol

Glad you enjoyed it!

So glad you enjoyed it. Thank you! 🙏

You're very welcome and thanks for your kind compliment ;-)

I'm so glad!

LOL

" Une noisette " is an espresso with a drop of milk.

So glad, thanks for watching!

Oh thank you!

My pleasure!

"tipping is not necessary" :)

Have a great trip!

Hi Alex, thanks so much! Do you mean the title animation? That's a Premiere preset downloaded from Storyblocks called Dynamic Opener Slideshow SB. If you mean the regular text on screen it's custom in After Effects. Montserrat font in black with glow and wiggle effects.

T'es malade...? Bien sûr qu'on a de bons torréfacteurs... omg t'as avalé le complexe d'inferiorité des italiens ou quoi ?😅

So glad it was helpful!!

I lived in France during my teenage years so I speak French fluently. Didn't drink coffee then but now I have been back to France numerous times as an adult, I feel intimidated to go to a Cafe or Brasserie to order a cup of coffee. That's why I prefer Starbucks.

You eat the cream with a spoon then you drink the cofee or you stir the cream when there is only 1/4 left.

Thanks so much!

Grand*. "Café" is masculine :)

Super interesting, thank you! 🙏

This dates back to the period when Russian cavalry troops shortly occupied Paris when Napoleon fell for the first time in 1814. The soldiers naturally attended drinking establishments where they wanted to be served quickly... быстро, bistro... This is how the French associated this Russian word with these drinking places that became this" so French" institution, the bistrot as we write it in French - though I've seen bistro without the final t as well. This is a small world.

Welcome!

"petit canard" is still a thing a lot of people do at dinners in the countryside. Usually with plum, apple or pear alcohol.

If it's not a shop but a marché or a vide grenier, you can negotiate. You should even if you want to pay a fair price. However, if the price is way to much, it means either that you don't have a good idea of the price or this person is trying to take advantage of the fact you are a tourist. Then the "No thank you, it is nice but too much for me." is appropriate.

It is! It's Le Pure Café, 14 rue Jean Macé. ☺

Café Crème and Café au Lait are pretty similar in that they are both coffee with warm/steamed milk. Café au lait is typically made and drunk at home, as / with breakfast. Its basically a small cereal bowl of coffee and milk. It’s not offered at cafés very often. Instead, café crème is the closest equivalent in a café, but much smaller than a café au lait that one might make at home. The cup is a bit bigger than an espresso cup, but not much - maybe the equivalent to a double espresso sized cup. Many cafés will also offer un grand café crème which is a bit larger, but still maybe half the size of an average US coffee mug.

@@thevaughntestkitchen6045 thanks for the detailed response. Whenever I’m in Paris, I’ve asked for un cafe au lait in a coffee shop and have received what looks like un cafe creme. Maybe they just know what I mean and always serve me the right coffee haha. When I go back, I will pay attention to the menu and see what it says. 😬

@@MichaelTheophilus906 the former 😉

In France politeness requires that you leave your phone aside when sharing a coffee or a meal; but we are unfortunately not totally safe from the cell phone addiction as well. I actually went to a restaurant in the south of France last summer where it was mandatory to leave your cell phone in a deposit box at the entrance; what a great idea!

@@jfrancobelge I could not agree more! I always think if I owned a cafe I would do the same. Politeness is a tricky thing in America. People often neglect to say hello, thank you or you're welcome. They're most certainly not going to put their phones aside. Addiction is truly the right word.

@@micade2518 That and renting the outside area. Getting a piece of sidewalk is EXPENSIVE for businesses. City authorities make bank on that.

You can definitely get decaf. Not uncommon at all.

Bonjour ;-)

Ah! I asked above about chicory before reading all comments. Chicory coffee is fairly common in Louisiana and S.E. Texas and I enjoy it very much. Good to know about availability in Lille.

@@willbass2869 given the amount of French immigrants in Louisianna that were historically from Northern France and of Picard origin at that I was not too too surprised when I saw some chicory while I was there indeed. But yeah if you go anywhere near the Belgium border in France you'll find Chicory not just in the gorcery stores but also on offer in local cafés.

Beurk, c'est juste bon pour tremper avec du maroilles au petit déjeuner ! C'est d'un autre âge.

Oh yes, Starbucks is popping up more and more these days! Glad you enjoyed the video ;-)

Hey there. DD doesn't exist in France. Although chains like Starbucks do exist, the French like smaller independent places and so the chains have really had to fight in order to find a place here. Alex

So glad it was helpful! As Alex said, no DD, but I'd recommend seeking out local coffee shops (usually in medium/large towns) for quality coffee (or coffee to go) or hit up one of the most crowded cafes if you'd like to sit down for a little while. The locals usually know where to go.

Why would it be discounted? I think you would just ask for a coffee. I don’t think they do discounts.

Why would being older mean the value of the coffee is decreased?... We discount housing or public transport for older folk, to compensate for a loss of autonomy. We don't discount people's fun expenses...

Not anymore - Coke Zero and Diet Coke sell more than regular Coke these days!

Hi Will, you can definitely find it at regular grocery stores but I can't say I have seen it too often on cafe/restaurant menus. I think places do serve it though but you'd have to ask. I bought some a couple of months ago and shared my thoughts in my Insta stories and a bunch of people told me about Cafe du Monde. So cool you can get it in Louisiana. I have to go one day for those world famous beignets!

You will find chicory a lot in a region called "Hauts de France", at the very north of the country, along the Belgian border (cities like Lille, Amiens, Dunkirk). Even if they don't list it, they offer it, you just need to ask. It's still very popular with older folk.

Comme le cafe dans les chaine restaurants en Amerique, Ils sont tous "jus de chaussette" je trouve. Dans les chic restaurants ils ont de tres bon cafe.

Hi there, we don't have children.

Very interesting! What specifically intimidates you about French cafes?

@@OuiInFrance I think it might be because growing up there I was never intiated to the french way of life, like my parents would never go to cafes with me or very french things, and I never knew the rules, which in France are very implicit, compared to anglo-saxons countries. I was shocked when I went to the US for the first time, by being greeted in a store "How you doing today sir?" with a giant smile. I thought the guy was befriending me haha! In France I would avoid any store as much as I could, because I would not feel welcome. But then again my uobringing was a bit weird, and not very traditional french so I felt a bit less french. I'm moving back to France soon after living in the US for around 7 years. My vision is more american now, and I appreciate the best of both cultures. US wins on the hospitality side of things, friendliness, non-threatening (overall). I am also glad to go back to France for some quality aspects, but I know that the mentality will be frustrating at some point, and things that are natural in the US will be less natural there. In a nutshell in the US rules are explained and written down so everybody knows what to expect, prety much, in France they are more implicit and we are expected to know them, or risk being looked down or scoffed at. That's my experience and judgments, I will give it another try. I also think that due to the french history of suspicion, treasons, collaborating, authoritarian rulers, the people has been abused many times, and that's why we have a hard time really cheering up, being open with one another, trusting etc... History must have engraved some deep seated beliefs and which might explain our suspiciousness of others, which is at the root of our seemingly unfriendlisness (compared to the US of course). It's up to me and all of us to rebuild trust and work toward that path and not add to the angry feelings, judgments etc... One saying in France is "trop bon, trop con" which means "if you are too nice/kind, then you are stupid because people will take advntage of you", that's something I heard all my life. And it is engrained in the French psyche. In the US, to be kind and nice is very encouraged and celebrated as a virtue. In France we are taught to be on guard and too never really trust our neighbors. Of course not everybody is like that but it is in the air. These are my personal relections, and I'm open to change that. I hope you have a good experience in France. I enjoy watching your videos, they help me see France and learn things I should have learned ages ago haha!

Try Cuban coffee in Miami. You'll grow hair on your chest. Don Johnson was filming Miami Vice and tried Cuban coffee every afternoon as a pick me up. He said it was better than cocaine.

It's availlable in most places, unless you go at a café in a lost village or something, and even then.

For restaurants and cafés we don't pay upfront. You eat, you drink and before leaving you ask for the bill. "L'addition s'il vous plaît."

@@jeanmariehidalgo7701 Thank you! ☺

As mentioned above, if you seat outside on the terrace, they will bring your cafe with the bill and expect you to pay in case you want to leave and no one is around.

the all take cards and you pay at the table (unless it's busy and you get up to go pay at the register inside)