I Tried a €185 BRUNCH BUFFET Inside a Paris "Palace Hotel" | Was It Worth It? 🥐

Good Sunday morning from Chinatown here in Paris where it's actually mainly Vietnamese food. I like Vietnamese food. Let's go get some. Wow they got sort of a little market going on here in front of this Chinese grocery store. You would think that bami here would be incredible because of the local bread. That's what I'm thinking. I don't think I've ever had bánh mì in Paris. So that one looks really popular. Then this other one down the road maybe a little less busy. Let's see. This is the other bami Oh yeah, that looks like fresh bread. I'm gonna buy me a bánh mì, not bad. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Oh, this is gonna be good, guys. Yeah, we just gotta find some Vietnamese coffee to go with this. Maybe here. Oh yeah, that's strong. I have a feeling this could be the greatest bánh mì I've seen in Vietnam. Because when I walked in, I was paying attention to their bread. Look at this baguette. Look at this. Oh, that is such a beautiful baguette. Inside, carrots. This is the special, by the way. Pork, fish cake, cucumbers, cilantro. This is a beautiful bánh mì. This thing feels good. Oh my god, that bread makes such a difference. I mean the bánh mì itself is amazing. Crunchy where it needs to be, soft where it needs to be, umami, spices got it all. And just on a fresh baguette, nice layer of pate in here as well. 5.50 euro. Can you even get a bánh mì in America for six bucks nowadays? That's some life-changing bánh mì. That's freaking perfect. Even better with some Vietnamese coffee. This is such a good breakfast. I don't want to overdo it because in a couple of hours I'm going to an all-you-can-eat super fancy schmancy brunch buffet at one of the nicest hotels here in Paris. I love brunch buffets and every city I go to I try to go to the local brunch buffet like try to find the best one. I don't know if this one I'm going to is the best one or not. It's definitely one of the most expensive ones so we'll see. See you in a bit. Today's brunch is gonna be at Le Lobby. I'm probably the only person in history that I've showed up to this hotel on a lime scooter. So this brunch... All the foods served in this room. This is pretty nice. Super elegant and beautiful. Chocolate fountain, just like the last time. Pastries. Beautiful looking pastries. All those madeleine cookies look awesome. Like super beautiful looking pastries. It's a waffle station. Fresh waffles. Beautiful looking cakes. All sorts of different meats, different cheeses, and breads, of course. This looks like a pretty interesting brunch. And a seafood bar. Looks like langoustines, prawns, snails, crabs as well. Mussels. Really intricate looking seafood dishes. Little finger sandwiches. Wow. Good. This stuff looks really pretty. Oh, this is the egg station. All sorts of egg dishes. Scotch egg as well. Like a cooking station. Oh, man. Beef Wellington. That looks beautiful. A dim sum station. It's the truffle tuna dish I had the other day. It's a really pretty looking brunch. Round one. A little bit of seafood. Got some bread. Got a piece of cheese. You know start things light. Okay so good news and bad news. Bad news is wine and alcohol are not included. Good news is there's a barbecue out in a terrace that I did not see. So Let's finish our plate and go check out the barbecue. It's like a little stone crab here. They had some butter on the buffet. Assuming that was for the seafood. Seafood's good. In a fancy place like this, of course, they probably open all the seafood for you so you don't have to do that kind of stuff. This was a pretty horrible way for this prawn to die. It got steamed and had his claw up his own butt. Definitely was not a good day for this thing. Wow, that's actually remarkably sweet and tender. That's like a little lobster, like a tenderer lobster and much sweeter. Oh, that's really good. I think this is jellyfish. It's like a ceviche. Very good. Little bits of mangoes in here as well. All kind of. So far, so good with this thing. Some snail, of course. It's just like some sort of smoky, herby butter. Really good with the free seafood. I normally don't get bread at buffets, but come on. We're in Paris. Bread looks phenomenal. Bread with some cheese. Smells like something that you shouldn't be putting in your mouth, but it's actually tangy and delicious. Oh, check out the barbecue. My bread is delightful. Nice, hello. There's prawns, octopus. Yes, there's some duck. Wow, they're cooking this in triggers. So this is Guinea fowl. Could I get the fowl? This barbecue. It's awesome. Everything freshly cooked. Obviously, we're in Paris, so a lot of sauces are going on with the meats. This looks amazing and smells even better. Just beautiful. Freshly grilled prawns, some beef here. I think this is heart. Some fowl. This is the roasted carrots. Truffle potatoes. The sauce for the carrots. I don't even know what's in the sauce, but this is raspberry mousse here. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's slicing easy. I was afraid this thing might be a little dry. Let's see. Tiny bit on the dry side, but very tender. That was really good with the raspberry mousse. Thing tastes like chicken. The skin looks nice and fatty. Let me dip it in some of this sauce here. Whatever that white sauce is, holy mother of sauce. That is freaking delicious. I think the white sauce maybe is supposed to be for the potatoes. Whoa. Oh, that's a 10 out of 10. The real truffle inside the potato. This is France, man. They don't mess around with truffle oil. Sauteed carrots. God, how good does this look? That's an amazing sauteed carrot with the raspberry sauce. Wow. That raspberry sauce with the carrot just adds another layer of sweetness to the subtly sweet carrot. The carrots are so good. Check out these juicy skewers. This looks picture perfect. Okay. This tastes amazing. You can taste the smoke in these. Whoa. Smoky, tender, like really tender. This is incredible. I'm such a fan of that barbecue. Gosh, this barbecue is so good. No good? It's good. I think it's really good. Okay, I think this is, oh no, this is duck. What am I talking about? I thought it was like heart or something. Oh man. Oh my gosh. If you don't become a fan of duck after getting that duck, then you're never going to like duck. You're just not. Look at this. They had come by with cooking stations as well. So right now, there's amberjack with some mango sauce on top and some fish eggs as well. This is definitely a fancy buffet. Well, we'll tell you when we find out the price. Maybe not fancy enough. I'm going back for more duck. My duck was sublime. So this is it. Check this out. They brought over some amberjack sashimi and pike eggs on top. I don't think I've ever had pike eggs. How interesting is this? Amberjack is great. That thing is always buttery and nice. The sauce is good. Fish eggs? No, bro. All right, let's go back to the main room. All right, I'm throwing buffet strategy right out of the window with this next plate because when I walked into the room, pastry caught my eye and would not let go. Like, you understand. We've all had that moment where we stared deep into a croissant. Look at this cookie. Come on. Look how beautiful this croissant is. Raspberry cream puff. This is a little, they call it like a chocolate Madeline cookie, whatever this pastry is, like a cylinder croissant looking thing. I feel like my biggest self-control today was reaching for the regular croissant not the chocolate. Oh come on. I really don't feel like it's possible to have a fat croissant in Paris. I mean it looks big but it's so light. Amazing. This looks like a pistachio madeleine. This is one of the greatest things in the land of pastries. Wow. It's this like pistachio madeleine with some pistachio sauce in the middle. Something that's making the madeleine even more moist in the It's like a nutty cream or something. It's the softest madeleine I've ever been into. Wow. This is freaking absurd. That's some life-changing stuff. Okay. This is a crazy little cream puff, man. Like the lightest little cream puff with like sugar coated on the outside. Wow. Any buffet is going to have the best pastries. It's going to be in Paris. I have to cook you. Everything is buttery. I'm not complaining. I'm just stating a fact. Happily. Okay. This thing is beautiful. Look, look, look. Raspberry cream in the middle. It's good. It's all good. Some are better than others, but it's all good. I don't even know how to eat this. Oh, I feel like I'm desecrating this somehow. Oh, there's raspberry jam in the middle of this thing. So good. Fruity jam in the middle. At the same time, light cream on top. Greatest pastries I've ever had on a buffet. Not even close. That is so freaking amazing. All right, let's go back. I think this is going to be a good round. I'm going to show you what I got. This is an egg cooked in wild mushroom and truffle with a little breast steak on top. Got some cured meats. Salami looks beautiful. Look how fatty this thing is. Smoked salmon. Salt-crusted leek. Dishes on here I've never seen at a buffet. Vegetable carpaccio. Butternut squash. Some octopus. And this has got to be the fanciest beef wellington I've ever seen in my life. There's like a... Green layer inside of the crust. I mean, I don't even know what that is. Look at this freaking egg and wild mushrooms, man. And truffles. Doesn't this look awesome? Gooey egg and mushrooms. Breast steak to dip it in. Freaking amazing. What's not to love about that? Gooey eggs, mushrooms, and truffle. Mmm. I need more bread to dunk into the eggs. Salt-crusted leek. I think this is the first time I've ever seen a salt-crusted leek on a buffet. You know what this tastes like to me? It's like me eating so much dumplings. It tastes like a dumpling salad. Really good. Look how good this cured meat looks. It's so fatty and good. Amazing. Even the vegetable carpaccio is good. Tastes like pickled daikons. Not a bad bite. That freshly sliced prosciutto is incredible. That is some melt-in-your-mouth stuff. Oh man, that was freaking delightful. Let's get to this. Fanciest beef Wellington on this planet. Jeez, that filet is soft. This is like the flakiest beef Wellington pastry I've ever had. Inside, there's juice from the beef. Outside, flaky like a croissant. Wow. Like, I don't know exactly what's in here, but there's a lot of fresh herbs. Like, this doesn't taste as heavy as a normal Beef Wellington. It tastes really bright. Amazing. Just the tenderest filet. You know what else this thing tastes like? It rhymes with utter. It's delicious. This might be the Beef Wellington I enjoyed the most of any other Beef Wellington I've ever had. Oh, the duck smells really good. Mmm. So this is um corn and buckwheat soup and this is a butternut squash gazpacho. This is a smoked duck brioche. A little smoked eel sandwich and a tuna roll. Oh I got a just deviled egg. Really fancy deviled egg. Oh that's old. Tuna's still good. Smoked eel. These little sandwiches are awesome. I'm gonna chase it with my butternut squash soup. That's pretty yummy. Wow it's pretty good. Corn and buckwheat. Hmm a little sweet. A little soba noodle-ish. Look how fancy this deviled egg is. Oh, hello. Sauce on the bottom, too, of this deviled egg. There's deviled egg with crab in the bottom. I love how there's a whole egg station. And typically, you think of an egg station, you think like an omelet station. Maybe they fry eggs for you. In France, an egg station, it's just tons of fancy dishes cooked with egg. Mmm, that's good. Look at this beautiful thing. Smoked duck with fig on a brioche. That's good. This is actually a really good combo. Get some sandwiches, get some soups. There's a two-hour seating limit. It's already an hour and a half in. As of now, I think they're kind of shutting the buffet down. Got another beef wellington. Look at this. This is scrambled eggs here. Scrambled eggs with uh shiitake mushrooms. And I want to hurry up and eat because I want to get some more barbecue. Now that's a scrambled egg. It's so good. My god. Also, I got some of this stuff. This is a Swiss pastry. Pretty much like a ginormous chocolate croissant. And some waffles. I feel like the waffle's a bit wobbly. This feels like a half-done waffle. Unless that's on purpose. I don't know. It's like a soggy half-done waffle. I think that's the first miss of the day. That ginormous chocolate croissant. So good. Oh man. Oh, that's so good. I think this thing's about to wrap up. This is just the ultimate plate of barbecue. Got some more of that truffle potato, that's so good. Check this out. Well, it looks like ultra tender octopus, more of the duck, because that's absolutely phenomenal. Some lamb shank too, with chimichurri sauce in the middle. This looks like superbly tender octopus. Oh my gosh. How? It's so good. A little bitterness from the char. My god, I think it's tender. Truffle potato is just... oh the sauce. Man, you're in France. The sauce just tastes different. They are not afraid to just lob on that butter. One of my favorite things today is potatoes in the sauce. This sauce is magic. Incredible. This is some juicy looking lamb shank. That's remarkable. That might be my favorite barbecue section of any buffet I've ever been to. This place is already my favorite pastry section. Probably the best roast meat section. Because not only is the meat done perfectly, the sauces they give you, the size, the roasted carrots. Oh, I should have got some roasted carrots. Roasted carrots was really good too. All good. One more plate of sweets. Totally forgot about the pies. A strawberry cake, a pistachio tart, and this, it looks like a croquembouche pie or something. All right, everybody left. Mmm. That's awesome. The cream, the vanilla cream. Mmm. The pie is flaky. That cream tastes like it was made in the clouds. This is freaking absolutely phenomenal. This is the pistachio tart. Peach and pistachio tart. Amazing. Pear and pistachio tart. Wow. I am full. I am satisfied. I could keep eating these pastries and desserts for the next couple hours. Now I got to finish this and get out of here. Let's talk about this brunch. This might be the most expensive brunch buffet I've ever been to in my life. At today's conversion, this place is $208 for this brunch buffet. This is definitely more expensive than any of the Miami brunch buffets. Now, is it worth it? I'm going to categorize this again, just like I did with the Cantonese brunch buffet as a special occasion. I think I like this brunch buffet more than I like the Cantonese brunch buffet, just because there are so many dishes I never tried before. I don't eat a lot of French food, so it's kind of neat to try a lot of ingredients that I may be familiar with, but prepared in different ways, like that whole leek with salt crust thing. Best thing about this buffet, savory-wise, 100% of the meats. The barbecue section is incredible. Every single meat they have there is a must-get. I think especially the duck. On the other side, the beef wellington is so good. Like the dishes here are amazing. Like, meats and cheeses are great. Like, everything is super quality stuff. It's definitely bigger than the Cantonese buffet, which, that's nice. I am kind of surprised that alcohol is not included in that price tag. That was honestly kind of shocking to me because the Cantonese buffet included the alcohol. Obviously, the pastry sweet section, superb. Like, just superb. Yeah, this brunch buffet, to me, is definitely better. than the cantonese brunch buffet. there's more food, more selection. i feel like the food tastes better. it's also about 70 bucks more and no alcohol. but i guess for a hotel of this caliber, i understand. like i said in the other video, part of what you're paying for is the ambiance. you're paying for the service. you're paying to eat at a palace hotel, which this is. apparently like paris categorizes any hotel that's above five stars, palace hotel. so this thing looks like a palace. kind of looks like i'm eating in versailles. really beautiful place. just like just like at the other buffet service is great. It's a phenomenal experience. Like, if you're just in Paris, you want to try out just a super luxurious brunch with really good food, this is it. Yeah, I know it's not the same category, but just comparing this to what I think is the best buffet in France, best buffet in Europe, Le Grand Buffet, which was what, like 60 euros, 70 euros now maybe? I mean, that's such a better deal. But that place definitely is not fancy schmancy like this. Oh, there you go. That's an inside look at one of the priciest brunch buffets. I don't think this is the priciest one either. Maybe the second most expensive brunch buffet in Paris. I'm good for today. About like 4:30, kind of started this buffet a little late, around 2:30. I think I'm good. And it's about three miles to home, so. Should be a fun walk. As always, all the places I went to is down below for you guys. Thank you all so much for watching. Until we eat again, see you later.