Welcome to another exciting video on our channel! Join me on a 24-hour marathon trying as many possible dining cars in Europe as possible – among others from Trenitalia, SNCF TGV inOui, Deutsche Bahn, SBB, Slovenske železnice, ÖBB, České Dráhy, ZSSK, PKP and MAV.
Get ready to experience Europe from its magnificent railways!
00:00 Intro
00:59 Day 1
06:14 Day 2
15:46 Outro
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29 Comments
I want a sushi train! That'd be amazing!
Your results pretty much match my travel experiences.
The buffet car in the TGVs is a major disappointment and can‘t really be called a dining car.
Quite surprising for a nation so proud of its cuisine that their high speed trains only offer stuff like microwaved hamburgers which one would perhaps expect at a petrol station in the middle of nowhere.
DB‘s ICE offerings have seriously declined over the last few years. Nothing is freshly prepared, merely reheated. They have gone done a vegan and organic rathole. It‘s hard to get a proper meal, their breakfast offerings are particularly sad.
SBB is quite good but of course crazily expensive.
So I guess the best chices indeed are the Eastern European old school dining cars with freshly cooked proper meals.
Excelent videography and content!!!
I cannot imagine how much planning this took. And really an exellent video! You must have been tired – and full – after this challenge! Central/East Europe is definitely superior to any other part of the continent regarding dining cars.
After a ride in the night train from Bari to Milano we had no cash left (it was 1992, banks closed in the weekends) and only a cheese sandwich and a can of orange to share. In Basel we saw on the famous yellow boards, that an express train for Amsterdam was due in 4 minutes. We were lucky! But also hungry.
We settled and I went to see if there was a dining car and if yes, if I could pay with credit card. I didn't look very fresh after such a long journey and when I asked if paying by credit card would be possible, the manager looked at me from top to feet and back, saying: "Only if you spend at least 25 DM"
That was no problem and in no time we were having our best meal of the vacation: freshly prepared steak, baked potatoes, vegetables and a salad, speeding north with 180 km/h!
So which food as best? I love the Czech, Slovak and Hungarian dining cars the best. SBB are good but so expensive!
Not even saying hello in Freiburg? 😅
€30 – No! 😀 Loved that interaction 😀
Great idea! and thanks for sharing this video, Klasse!
It is astonishing how many inter city connections there are and especially from Vienna! Everytime I see videos like this I am comfirmed in my feeling that I love train travel!
Great video, I actually had a plan like this as well once. I love it.
Wonderful video Félix !
03:53 : I didn't know Lennart was an expert in Coca-Cola 😂
How much did the food and train tickets cost?
Booked first class compartment on a Czech train recently and had goulash and beer… it was divine!
CD, Slovenian, Slovakian, PKP and MAV are by far the best in terms of on board dining
awesome & unique idea, great job! the eastern european dining cars are the best with freshly cooked meals 🙂
Congratulations on this unique food tour
Dining on trains is the best! 👌 😋 Nice work.
Hanba ten nás taxikár slovenský. 30 euro za takú krátku jazdu. Úplní somár, a tak nás potom budú vidieť turisti.
English: Just me raging against that stupid Slovak taxi driver
My favourite dining is with the Czech Railways (Cesky Drahy). Quality is high, they have good beer (draught even) and with very reasonable prices. PKP (Poland) is also good.
This is such a fun concept, I love it!
This is superb! A very impressive bit of timetable juggling in the first place to link up all those dining car services, and a lovely video. Thank you for the shout-out too. Prost!
Vienna is the hub of dining car and obviously night trains. Think I had the following in September. Breakfast from Prague to Berlin, very late lunch on DB from Berlin to Duesseldorf, something on SBB from Duesseldorf to Zurich (though it got cancelled in Basel).
Ach, schön, habe schon auf Bluesky von Lenny von eurem Abenteuer gelesen, aber ich wusste nicht, dass es auch Videos gibt. Bin jetzt nur durch Zufall hierauf gestoßen. Super gemacht!
Watching the part with the EC 199 while an Astoro is passing by and after that a DB Kiss came into view in both the video and real life
I really love the ČD dining car. And if you order whilst in Czechia, it is also very cheap for a train.
Der tschechische speisewagen ist ex ÖBB. Ja ich esse auch gern im JLV-speisewagen.
Italian restaurant being on strike makes it even more Italian.
Great video – thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed your idea and production