Emirates’ Business Class customers can look forward to an elevation of the inflight experience, as an array of 18 new dishes will be launched onboard this summer. Meticulously designed by Moët & Chandon’s Head Chef of Michelin star renown Jean Michel Bardet and Emirates’ Vice President of Culinary Design Doxis Bekris, each of the new dishes has been paired with an exclusive champagne, aiming to serve up the ultimate culinary collaboration in the sky.
The 18 new starters and main courses will be launched inflight on select routes from May 2025 onwards, allowing Emirates’ Business Class customers to enjoy an expertly curated champagne and cuisine pairing. The menu has spent more than a year in development between Emirates master chefs and the Maison of Moët & Chandon in France, as the award-winning chefs were challenged to create refined dishes of culinary excellence with premium ingredients, that can also be scaled to meet the demands of the world’s largest international airline, serving 149 meals every minute, and totalling more than 77 million meals every year.
Over the year of development, the chefs collaborated and connected between France and Dubai, to create the dishes together. While Chef Jean Michel was challenged to pair the flavour profiles of dishes innovatively and bring out the notes of the exclusive champagnes onboard Emirates, the Emirates team were managing the issues of scale, and ensuring the dishes could be prepared for the large numbers of customers onboard, travelling to myriad global destinations. Together the chefs brainstormed the ways in which premium restaurant quality cuisine could be recreated for the inflight experience – taking into account the impact of altitude, scale and pre-preparation of the food before loading onto the aircraft. The chefs also had to consider the ways in which Emirates’ cabin crew would be able to plate the food onboard, ensuring the Business Class customer has an outstanding experience every time.
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