One can sample some of the finest French fare, it seems, without leaving the confines of Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. “I Love Paris”, named the best fine dining airport restaurant of 2016, was picked at the Airport Food and Beverage (FAB) Conference and Awards in Geneva.
Owned by chef Guy Martin, the restaurant serves up classic French cuisine such as blanquette de veau (veal ragout) and pot-au-feu as well as vegetarian burgers and mango carpaccio. The spin-off of the chef’s Michelin-starred Le Grand Vefour in Paris, edged out Gordon Ramsay’s Plane Food to win the top prize in the category of chef-led, fine dining offer of the year.
However, Martin may not be the leader of the pack for long with the arrival of restaurants by celebrity French chefs Thierry Marx and Michel Rostang last week. Meanwhile, Copenhagen Airport took home the top honor for best overall airport for food and beverage for the second time — having first done so in 2014. While the Danish capital is now regarded as a culinary hotspot thanks to chef Rene Redzpei’s restaurant Noma, the airport offers 34 restaurants and coffee shops to choose from.
Other winners at the FAB Conference and Awards include Emirates Leisure Retail, Hudson and Brisbane Airport for the best airport coffee shop of the year. The Hausmann’s Flughafen Gastronomie at Frankfurt airport took home the title for the best casual dining restaurant of the year.
This story was written in-house, based on an AFP report, with an image from the same
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