i want to tell you the story of how i
met some really cool people in the most
unlikely of circumstances
this is everybody's favorite part i knew
it
i knew it
so this story begins in 2019 where
through a strange series of events i
find myself eating in the former best
restaurant in the world
francescana and that experience was
incredible i
love food i absolutely call myself a
foodie and i think it's such an
incredible way to connect with people
and spend a special moment together
alright fast forward a couple years
later i had this idea
to invite some strangers with me to
really put this theory to the test how
much can people bond through food the
plan is simple okay i'm here in nice to
find three strangers i have three extra
spots with me in my reservation in the
restaurant
which is in a town called maltol our
reservation is tomorrow i don't have
anybody to fill those spots so i have to
figure that out today and we're gonna
try and see if we can find some
strangers that are down for an adventure
the twist of course is that i'm not
gonna tell them what they're getting
themselves into they just have to be
down for an adventure little do they
know that they will be visiting the
restaurant that won best restaurant in
the world in 2019. three michelin stars
the restaurant is so good in fact that
it no longer gets ranked anymore and has
been put in the hall of fame of
restaurants along with only seven others
i'm excited how do you feel about this
you're also uncomfortable about going
out to the gym i'm happy that i need to
just need to film it yeah
i'm sitting right in front of lucas
actually so that's lucas and lucas and
he's been working with me as my editor
for a few months but we met yesterday so
we'll see how this goes
i've never done this before gonna start
asking strangers to join us
this could be a total mess i'm not
awkward at all when it comes to talking
to people i don't know yeah i don't know
this is uh
you're nervous now wow yeah i'm nervous
now yeah that's for sure you know what
it let's try excuse me so i'm i'm
shooting a video asking strangers to go
on an adventure with me
i can't tell you but i can tell you it's
it you know
i can't tell you more but it's an
adventure well i don't know why not
depends but really i don't know i don't
know what the i'm talking about so
you're free tomorrow yes yes okay
awesome
why am i doing this
okay wow
this is amazing what's your name
lou you didn't even hesitate i cannot
believe how easy that was that took one
attempt oh
that's great this is going to be easy
excuse me yes um um
uh
so i'm shooting a video right now asking
people uh to go on an adventure with me
uh oh no okay are you open to go on an
adventure with me i don't know okay okay
no worries no worries but it's so nice
yeah have a nice day
do you speak english
i can try at least you can try at least
so i'm i'm shooting a video asking
strangers to go with me on an adventure
would you be open to going on an
adventure with me no i have no time
tomorrow morning i'm speaking in front
of uh young
children oh nice about a book that i've
written oh wow you can have a look at my
studio it's right there right can we
take a look is that okay yeah yeah yeah
i mean
oh my gosh this is amazing
this is super cool so you're a painter
on a control captive amazing
i really like these how often do you
speak to strangers
never refused it was really nice meeting
you nice to meet you i feel like i don't
talk to older people often enough he's
like no i'm sorry but you want to see my
studio like yeah yeah so i'm shooting a
video asking strangers to go on an
adventure with me would you be
interested or no no okay excuse me i'm
shooting a video asking strangers no
sorry okay
stranger go to adventures yeah with me
not interested no okay okay that's fine
no okay are you sure it would be an
amazing adventure no what do you want
looking for strangers to go on an
adventure with me
yeah i mean i love adventures but i'm a
i'm in my studies yeah so i'm a little
bit busy right now do you have time
tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow is the
adventure day it's a secret okay um if i
told you you can't come yeah the thing
is tomorrow we
also have guests so i'm shooting a a
video
uh inviting strangers
to go on an adventure with me it's
happening tomorrow if you're available
yeah you are yeah okay awesome what's
your name
my name's nathan by the way okay
what
yeah it is kind of insane what we're
doing awesome so we have a second person
so
we have filled two of the three spots
that i have available so there's one
remaining and i'm meeting up with a
subscriber who responded to a very vague
post that i put on my instagram stories
he's studying right now to work in
hotels and kind of like in the service
industries so here's the thing he has no
idea
nice to meet you dude working on a video
where i'm asking
strangers to go on an adventure with me
and i'm curious if you'd be down it's
happening tomorrow okay
but it's up to you no i'm checking
because we have enough
so you're done yeah you're down
bro
do you think he knows what's going on no
he has no idea he has no idea
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i'm so bad at this i feel like i'm
creating wrinkles while doing this
it's getting worse anybody who knows how
to do this is cringing so hard
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this is finally happening now it's a
moment of truth if they showed up or not
if they got too scared we're going alone
i don't see anybody
bro
oh man
good to see you
wait
did you guys bring your goggles
just kidding
moment of panic what goggles
no you're all good the adventure
begins we met up with lou at the train
station
this is lou
i have the tickets and off we were five
total strangers bonded together by the
promise of an adventure equal parts
excited and nervous about what the day
would bring
as we rode across the french riviera i
kept thinking to myself what a strange
and wonderful situation i was in
i just feel as a kid going to summer
camp right now because like
i'm excited we don't know where we're
going we don't know what we're going to
do don't worry i brought the goggles i
love it when you get off and there's
like not even really a station and how
alive it made me feel to be on an
adventure with people i didn't know
oh my god so a few years ago i ate at
one of the best restaurants in the world
and this time i was like wow it would be
amazing to invite people i don't even
know to have the experience with me
so this restaurant won best restaurant
in the world in 2019 okay that was for
me i studied this restaurant in class
last year and when i saw the m i
i was like what the it's just the m
yeah yeah yeah yeah
i feel like it's kind of perfect right
because you're the one usually doing the
service work
now you get to be serviced i thought
that'd be cool thank you so much for
this yeah i really feel privileged
thank you so much dude thank you my
pleasure man have you ever eaten in a
really nice restaurant like this no no
with stars and no so here's the
thing we were early for our reservation
and i thought eating in the best
restaurant in the world didn't quite
feel like enough for my three special
guests we were right at the border
between italy and france and i thought
it would be cheeky to invite the others
for a quick italian coffee before
re-entering france for our meal this was
their reaction to my idea yeah
this is such a european reaction and i'm
just like let's go
well welcome to italy guys i'm the one
that's the most amazed i'm like this is
amazing
[Laughter]
um
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our reservation is in 10 minutes and
we're still in another country
onward
so we're back in france
that took us three minutes whoa that
looks so cool
little did any of us know the true depth
of the experience we were about to have
it was finally time to discover the
wonders of
in hushed voices we entered the
restaurant
a swarm of waiters helped us get settled
i was taken aback by this spectacular
view of the mediterranean
i really believe that there is something
sacred about breaking bread with other
people
messy okay did you taste the water
already no it's is it is that the water
no no it's like a welcome water but just
try it it was no ordinary water it was
laced with jasmine
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i was so happy about his reaction this
is amazing so i just want to say i'm
very excited to do this with you guys
we're at the very beginning and i think
this whole process takes a few hours but
i just want to say thank you so much for
saying yes to an adventure it's such an
exciting thing to share food with other
people and i hope that you know this can
create a really beautiful memory that we
all keep for a long time
thank you for coming what ensued was a
nine course meal under the theme of
fruit the menu in the restaurant changes
every three days and always follows a
theme
before the nine courses there were
snacks and throughout the meal we were
served two different kinds of artisanal
bread
like everything is happening at the same
time and like i i'm still not done with
the bread the bread is so good need to
eat this pumpkin
as is always the case in places like
this you're always tasting flavor
combinations that you never thought were
possible
wow
in reality there were a lot of moments
of silence as everybody took in the
sensations
so they left a little poem about the
bread
bread you rise from flower water and
fire the earth beauty and love all
tastes like bread how simple you are
bread and how profound
pablo
i'm not exaggerating when i say that
this went on for hours
cheers
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one thing that i love about these
restaurants is that there's like a whole
team of people all around i probably
look ridiculous vlogging right now but
they work like clockwork they're all
over the place they move so fluidly they
never run into each other they're so
efficient yeah like there's like 80 of
them over there
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oh my god that's amazing we had white
truffles sliced right before our eyes
and just when you don't think you can be
amazed anymore you are
bro you gotta try this
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good
did this match your expectations it's
how do you say it's more than my case
really
every detail down to the smallest
imaginable thing have been thought of
we've lost count how many dishes we've
had
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the view out the windows is ridiculous
i mean like out of a movie honestly
something really interesting happened
when the meal ended we got a chance to
visit the kitchen and the wonderful
chefs that had cooked our meal that's
amazing services
this is everybody's favorite part i knew
it
i knew it
we then rode a golf cart to the nearby
gardens belonging to the restaurant all
giggly and cracking
oh my god
i almost died
wow
what an experience are we going to italy
yes
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it struck me that we were no longer a
group of strangers that had only just
met we couldn't be further from
strangers in that moment
you know when it feels easy to be around
somebody else that's what it felt like
nothing was planned or forced
i get the impression that you're proud
to work here yes i'm really proud but
because it's really
wonderful in fact i feel proud and i
don't know how to say lucky for me it
feels like something special is
happening here and you're and it's so
exciting to be a part of it you know
yeah this is a kind of magic
perfection right now yeah
oh
wow
what an experience are you happy dude
dude this is amazing look look at the
boats out in the ocean the sky is
literally pink
we'll all have our bellies full
i can't tell you how grateful i was for
that evening and every person i met how
beautiful life can be when you let the
barriers drop
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i'm just curious if you had any thoughts
on this experience happy to have met you
all first i'm really glad i
didn't say no yeah yeah
and the food was really really good but
the crab and the veal the hazelnut sauce
thank you so much
oh my god my pleasure i have three more
people in my heart and i also wondering
how many
more people are out there who i still
could connect it makes the world smaller
in a way yeah that's really beautiful i
so appreciate your open spirit and
willingness to do this we have a group
hug
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