Air France Unveils Its Michelin-Starred Chef’s Business Class Dishes For 1Q 2019

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Air France is one of the few airlines that regularly updates us on what it’s offering customers onboard. Most airlines rotate their menus reasonably frequently (especially in premium cabins) but I can’t think of another airline that’s as keen to share what it serves onboard as Air France – I take that as a good thing.

Air France has a stable of Michelin-starred chefs who, individually, help to arrange the airline’s premium cabin meals at various points of the year.

Between January and the end of March 2019 Ann-Sophie Pic (“the world’s most Michelin-starred female chef) is in charge of adding some star quality to the Air France Business Class menu and these are the dishes she has contributed:

January 2019

• Pollock with creamy black rice, butternut and coconut curry sauce;

• Creamy lentils served with beetroot and onion pickles.

February 2019

• Poultry with Tonka bean, voasti polenta and chicken sauce;

• Beef cheek in a coffee marinade, with celery, chestnut and carrots.

March 2019

• Guinea fowl and cream of green peas in a black tea sauce;

• Pollock with creamy black rice, butternut and coconut curry sauce.

These menu items will be available in Business Class cabins on all long-haul flights departing from Paris as well as on the following medium-haul destinations:

“Algiers, Amman, Athens, Bucharest, Casablanca, Catania, Yerevan, Kiev, Marrakech, Moscow, Oran, Rabat, Stockholm, Sofia, St Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Tunis, Warsaw”

In 2019 Air France will be partnering with a total of 4 Michelin-starred chefs for its Business Class menus and we will see Arnaud Lallement (April – June), Guy Martin (July – September) and Michel Roth (October – December) adding their own menu items later in the year.

Bottom Line

I love the fact that Air France takes the food it serves onboard so seriously (I guess that goes hand-in-hand with being the French flag carrier) and, in my experience, the chefs do a good job of remembering that they’re creating food for 30,000ft+ and the crew know how to make serving it onboard look good – both those things go a long way to making the Air France Business Class experience looked as polished as it often does.