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Air France’s signature pop-up restaurant returns for summer

19 June 2025 No Comments

Following the success of its first pop-up restaurant at the Palais de Tokyo last summer during the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, Air France is installing its new restaurant on The Rooftop at Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann, on the eighth floor of the iconic Parisian department store.

This year, the restaurant is fitted out in an elegant, tailor-made decor in the airline’s signature colours, with navy blue, white to add light and contrast, and touches of red. With twenty covers and two lunch services, it resembles the private, cozy atmosphere of the airline’s airport lounges, ideal for enjoying a gourmet break in a unique setting, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. An outdoor lounge and sunbeds complete the setting, so you can take full advantage of the panoramic views of Paris, from the Eiffel Tower to Montmartre, not forgetting the beauty of the city’s rooftops.

Culinary highlights

The menu at this unique concept restaurant includes a French-style meal prepared with the expertise of Servair, the leading airline catering company, and served “just like on board”. With an appetizer, starter, main course, a selection of cheeses and dessert, each dish is served in tableware specially created for Air France by designer Jean-Marie Massaud, in a setting similar to that on board the plane, incorporating the airline’s Business meal tray.

The restaurant’s customers will be able to enjoy dishes created by triple Michelin-starred chef Régis Marcon for Air France’s long-haul Business cabin. With meat, poultry, fish and vegetarian dishes, the à la carte menu will be identical to those available on board. With a Camargue rice trio with lemon, carrot and orange sauce, butternut and red beans or Chicken with morel mushroom sauce, rice pilaf and green asparagus, these culinary creations tell the story of the chef’s cuisine, inspired by nature and his home region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

When it comes to desserts, everyone can enjoy the pastries available on board created by Nina Métayer, awarded the title of World’s Best Pastry Chef in 2023. With a crunchy hazelnut and caramel delight and a Tatin-style crunchy delight, the chef’s gourmet yet light pastries are a feast for the senses. And to ensure the perfect wine to go with each dish, the French wine and champagne list has been created by Air France’s head sommelier Xavier Thuizat, who is also Head Sommelier at the Hôtel de Crillon, A Rosewood Hotel and was crowned Best Sommelier in France in 2022. A wide choice of non-alcoholic drinks will also be available.

The Air France restaurant, on the eighth floor of Galeries Lafayette, Coupole Store, 40 boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris. Open from 25 June to 20 August 2025 daily (except Tuesday) from 11.30am to 3.30pm, reservation required. Lunch menu at 93 euros including drinks.

Air France has added Michelin-starred menus in its La Première cabins

3 January 2025

Air France is renewing its partnership with Emmanuel Renaut, triple Michelin-starred chef and Meilleur Ouvrier de France.

This will be his first time creating all the starters and main dishes on the new menu. The chef continues to work with carefully selected seasonal produce, vegetarian products, red and white meat of French origin and fish sourced from sustainable fisheries. As a lover of Savoyard cuisine, he is keen for others to savour his mountain-inspired cuisine combining local produce with French culinary heritage.  

“Nature is a source of inspiration as infinite as it is fragile. My cuisine tells a story, one of simplicity, gourmet indulgence and comfort. This is what I wanted to share with Air France’s La Première customers”, he said.  

With a selection comprising Beaufort PDO soufflé, cream of mushroom with truffles, and foie gras with salsify, blueberry and onion chutney, the chef has created five inventive, gourmet starters. Eight new dishes celebrating French cuisine, especially Savoyard cuisine, also feature on this seasonal menu that will be renewed over the coming months. Polenta with wild mushrooms, spinach and mountain cheese – simple products with a distinct Alpine identity – or Scallops quenelle, tangy cream sauce and root vegetables are among the new gourmet delicacies available on board.  

As for desserts, this is the first time that Air France is entrusting its dessert menu to Claire Heitzler, Gault & Millau’s elected pastry chef of the year 2013, who places special emphasis on French, seasonal products to offer La Première guests a genuine gourmet interlude.  

“For Air France, I created a selection of pastries combining gourmet delicacies, flavours and products from our French regions. A gourmet interlude for the company’s passengers to enjoy”, said the chef.  

Seven of her signature desserts will be gradually unveiled on the La Première menu. The chef has notably created a triple chocolate cloud, a dessert of crunchy chocolate shortbread and creamy dark chocolate, and the Castanéa, a dessert with Ardèche chestnuts and Corsican clementines.  

This winter, the La Première cabin is available on flights from Paris-Charls de Gaulle to Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Los Angeles, Miami, New York-JFK, San Francisco, Washington-DC (USA), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Singapore and Tokyo-Haneda (Japan).