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During a flight delay, everyone is looking for more comfortable and relaxing spots at the airport. Nowadays, airports are coming up with different amenities like beauty salons, spas, internal lodges, fitness centers, and even museums. Restaurants have, of course, always been around the airport scene. Today, there is a new trend emerging in the world’s busiest hubs. Well-known chefs with Michelin stars are showcasing their exclusive menus inside airport terminals. Here is a guide to which airports house high-class cuisines from Michelin-star chefs.

Geneva International Airport, Switzerland – Altitude

Altitude serves classic and delightful French foods that match the magnificent sights at Geneva International Airport Terminal 1 in Switzerland. The brilliant European restaurant concept is a common investment by chef Gilles Dupont and chef Thomas Byrne who both hold two Michelin stars. Chef Fabien Legon manages Altitude. This French restaurant can accommodate several international leisure and business travelers with seven deluxe rooms and a conference center. Lunch and dinner menu includes variety of foods like Brittany sole meunière-style, carnaroli risotto, veal fillet with vegetables, and a duck foie gras duo.

Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris – I Love Paris

Do you know that Michelin Guide books were first published in France in the 1900s? It is a wonder that it took so long before Charles de Gaulle Airport opened a restaurant managed by a great chef with Michelin stars. I Love Paris is supervised by Chef Guy Martin, who boasts three Michelin stars. Here you will indulge on French fusion cuisine while surrounded by Palais Royal inspired interiors. The chef’s menu offers such delicacies as veal ragout, roasted monkfish, blue lobster and mango carpaccio, and pot-au-feu.

Costa Del Sol International Airport, Spain – Lamoraga at Malaga

Andalusian tapas is known to be the trademark of several dining places in Spain. Now they can be found in Lamoraga Restaurant at Malaga Airport. The menu prepared by chef Dani Garcia, with two Michelin stars, offers traditional yet innovative Spanish culinary dishes. Most travelers grab a bite of oxtail burgers or chorizo and sip a gazpacho soup. The restaurant interior is minimalist inspired and they also have a limited but sophisticated wine selection.

LaGuardia Airport, New York – Cotto

Cotto serves Italian foods inside LaGuardia Airport in New York. Michelin-starred chef Michael White opened this restaurant with quick bite foods like paninis and antipasti. Cotto also has speck which is a must-try. Truffle butter and garganelli served with radicchio are also great. There is even a gelato bar. This restaurant has a simple checkered tile with black and white shades matched with green chairs and floor to ceiling windows that give an airy open space mood.

El Prat Airport, Spain – Porta Gaig

Michelin-star chef Charles Gaig oversees Porta Gaig. He owns two restaurants that serve Catalan fare in Barcelona. The menu here includes pata negra, crispy Iberian pork, croquettes and cod fritters. Porta Gaig has a minimalist design with scenic view and modern furniture. The sumptuous meals are the main feature of the restaurant.

Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey – Saison

French Bistro Saison, located inside Newark Airport, took a step up with its restaurant cuisine. The renowned chef Alain Ducasse, first to achieve six Michelin stars, is the consultant for the bistro’s premium menu. French Bistro Saison offers croissant bread pudding, escargot, roasted bone marrow, foie gras, coq au vin and a wide range of world class wines.

London Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom – Plane Food

You will be surprised of who’s in charge of the modern European cuisine at Plane Food inside London Heathrow Airport. The renowned lively chef, TV personality, restaurateur and author, Chef Gordon Ramsay who has seven Michelin stars and owns more than 20 restaurants around the world is the man behind the Plane Food’s premium menu. It takes months after you book a table before you can have a taste of Chef Gordon Ramsay’s menu in other locations. It is such a privilege to dine in Plane Food because you need not book a table before you can have a taste of Chef Gordon’s salmon fish cake on leeks with poached eggs, chili and ginger, butter chicken curry with saffron and cumin rice, and crispy duck with watercress. Multiple course meals are served within 25 minutes that is why the dining experience in this restaurant is meant to be faster.

Stuttgart Airport, Germany – Top Air

Chef Marco Akuzun opened the first airport restaurant with a Michelin star at Stuttgart Airport in Germany. Top Air offers appetizing high-end meals such as Washugyu (a combination of Black Angus and Wagyu beef) with Akuzun’s creative presentation and inventive foie gras ice-cream. The restaurant is situated overlooking the Swabian Alps.

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