Comments on: Paris: The city’s best-dressed baguette sandwiches

By: Paris: The Land of Walking Food - The Beard & The Broad

Paris: The Land of Walking Food - The Beard & The Broad — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 22:26:23 +0000

[…] On our way to champs, Broad discovered her new, most favorite thing on this planet, the walking sandwich. Ok, they are not called walking sandwiches but that’s what we called them, because that’s what they should be called. We walked passed an adorable bakery that had macarons and other sweets but they also had a case of delicious sandwiches. They were quite simple, basically all sandwiches were in France. They were all on skinny baguettes and either had sopresetta/ham/other meat, pickles and a butter spread or they were mozzarella, tomatoes and basil. Broad grabbed a meat one and it was love at first bite. They’re easy to eat while walking the streets and were so simple and delicious and CHEAP! We think we probably ate 10 of them during our 2 days. Read more about these sandwiches here. […]

By: Kitty

Kitty — Wed, 10 May 2017 15:03:01 +0000

CHEZ PAUL! Excellent sandwiches, and you can find it in the train stations and even CDG airport.
What a relief to find it there, rather than buy overpriced pseudo-ethnic food.

And Paul’s apricot tart is surprisingly good.

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:23:17 +0000

“If you spot the sandwich of your dreams but it doesn’t have crudités (lettuce and tomato), just ask, and they’ll happily add it.”

Oh, sure; they’ll add it – for extra! My husband took me to Paris for our honeymoon, and we quickly found at lunchtime that a ham sandwich was exactly that – HAM. No condiments, no lettuce, tomato, cheese, onion…just ham and bread. Add anything to the ham and that made it a “mixed sandwich”, which cost more, merci beaucoup. Maybe we were just spoiled American tourists, but we weren’t impressed with this facet of the culinary scene. And free drink refills? Please…

By: A Havrilla

A Havrilla — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:36:10 +0000

I had a dolmas baguette sandwich here in Paris. Also included: feta cheese, tomato, lettuce and he asked if I wanted olive oil & basil. Oui, s’il vous plait! It was delicious!

By: Melissa Mcintosh

Melissa Mcintosh — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:20:16 +0000

Oh my goodness. This brings back so many memories. I LOVE the chicken baguette and would love to know what we’re in them. Not sure if the chicken baguette that you have listed is the same. The one I fell in love with had sun dried tomatoes (I think) with some delicious flavored mayo. If I ever go back that’s my first stop. Lol. I just wish I could recreate them.

By: Vivian Kelly

Vivian Kelly — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:38:39 +0000

I’m partial to the Thon sandwich and the gruyere and butter are to die for! After reading this, grabbing one of each will be the first thing I do when back in Europe in November.

By: Pete Meyers

Pete Meyers — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:24:59 +0000

We’re with you that Paul makes surprisingly good baguettes. Coincidentally, our mother has the habit of swiping Paul-branded sugar packets and displaying them back home to make the Mr. Coffee machine feel, well, more Parisian.

Thanks for the comment!

Pete & Tom from EuroCheapo

By: Debbie Beardsley

Debbie Beardsley — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:39:47 +0000

Love stopping and grabbing a sandwich when in Paris! It is a perfect lunch, very reasonably priced and tastes delightful. We were in Paris with our teenage children and stopped to have a sandwich everyday at whatever bakery was nearby. Our kids loved this idea and especially loved the sandwiches with the amazing dijon mustard!

By: Marty

Marty — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:12:45 +0000

Loved the story, Theadora! I would add that the busiest bakeries are almost always the best–not only is a line out the door a sign that the locals are willing to wait for their favorite baked goods, but it also means that the pre-made sandwiches in the cases haven’t been waiting around too long for an eager mouth to gobble them up. That’s always been my complaint about those pale stacks of cold panini’s you see all over Paris–that half-baked dough sits there hour after hour growing god-knows-what microbes till they finally get a little toasting to cover up any off-putting smells when someone wants to buy one, while meanwhile real traditional baguettes (especially when they are still warm from the oven) are the kind of thing that made people sing hymns (as in “let’s break bread together, believers!”) or write love poems (“a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou . . .”). No panini would ever inspire that kind of thing. Accept no substitutes! Thanks for your paean to the Real Thing!

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:35:59 +0000

Actually, I’ve always thought the ubiquitous Paul makes excellent baguette sandwiches. And now there is a little Paul trailer selling their sandwiches in the Tuilerie gardens, a stone’s throw from the Louvre.

For those at the Orsay Museum, a few blocks away from the Seine on the Rue de Bellechasse is a branch of Gosselin with great sandwiches on their very good bread. And they still have reasonable prices on quality pasteries, unlike most of the other deluxe pastry shops. Take your food to the pretty park in front of nearby St. Chlotilde on rue las Cases, or take a longer hike to the gardens of the Rodin Museum (entry 1 euro for the gardens only) with its view over the Thinker to the golden dome of the Eglise du Dome and the Eiffel Tower.