Air France Introduces New Michelin-Starred Menus on Long-Haul Flights Ex-Paris

(21 July 2022, 11:15 +07)  Passengers of Air France long-haul La Première and Business cabins on departure from Paris have new Michelin-starred menus to look forward to.

Created by French chefs Michel Roth and Anne-Sophie Pic, the menus feature carefully selected seasonal produce, vegetarian products, red and white meat and fish.

Michel Roth - La Première Cabin

Michelin-starred chef Michel Roth, Bocuse d'or and Meilleur Ouvrier de France, has created a new series of resolutely French, gourmet and refined dishes for customers in the La Première cabin.

Shrimp in lobster sauce perfumed with tarragon, red rice and baby spinach

The chef has created an appetizer, a starter and eight dishes that will gradually be unveiled on the menu of the airline's most exclusive cabin between now and October 2022:

- Caviar Sturia accompanied by a pancake with smoked fish cream (appetizer);

- Lobster medallion, green asparagus and raspberry vinaigrette (starter);

- Tender beef, pan-seared foie gras with a truffle sauce, stir-fried asparagus and porcini mushrooms;

- Oven-cooked verbena veal, vegetable and morel mushrooms;

- Chicken supreme with rosemary, fine sweet pepper tart and stuffed zucchini;

- Chicken supreme with olives and black truffles, poivrade artichokes and macaroni gratin;

- Quinoa with candied lemon, summer vegetables and basil creme;

- Truffled polenta, green vegetables, mint pea coulis with carrot jus;

- Fillet of brill in a shellfish jus accompanied by simmered green vegetables and mussels;

- Shrimp in lobster sauce perfumed with tarragon, red rice and baby spinach (pictured).

The La Première cabin is available this summer on certain ex-Paris flights to Los Angeles, Miami, New York-JFK, San Francisco, Washington DC (United States), Mexico City (Mexico), Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), Johannesburg (South Africa), Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and Sao Paulo (Brazil).

Anne-Sophie Pic - Business Cabin

Triple Michelin-starred chef Anne-Sophie Pic, who this season is creating high-flying menus in the long-haul Business cabin, has concocted eight dishes:

- Braised beef, potato mousseline, plum chutney and tarragon breadcrumbs;

- Saithe with seaweed, lovage sauce, Camargue red rice, spinach and fennel compote;

- Artichoke barigoule, creamy polenta, smoked vanilla Burrata, tangy tomato coulis;

- Poached saithe with curry and coconut milk sauce, black rice;

- Beef stew with coffee and sweet onion consommé;

- Chicken with tonka bean sauce and creamy polenta with mushrooms; and

- Seashell pasta, chard and lemon coulis, lightly smoked goat cheese cream, roasted pumpkin seeds.

By the end of 2022, Air France has committed to offering 100% French meat, dairy products and eggs, as well as sustainably caught fish, on all its flights from Paris and in all cabins.

A vegetarian dish will also be systematically offered and all meals will be prepared entirely in France.

Kids’ and infant menus will be made exclusively from organically grown produce.

As part of the fight against food waste, Air France is this year making it possible to pre-select a hot meal in the Business cabin before departure. This service combines the guarantee of availability of the customer's choice with fairer consumption. The airline is also committed to recycling and eliminating 90% of single-use plastic on board its aircraft by early 2023.

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