LONDON, July 30 — Heathrow Airport has created a restaurant and diner’s guide that rates the hub’s restaurants and cafes, and aims to help flyers navigate their food and drink options.
Hard copies of Food on the Fly, released in time for peak travel season, are being handed out to passengers this week to serve as a mini restaurant guide for the airport community, breaking down dining options by terminal and featuring top-five picks for drinks, sandwiches and healthy fare.
The booklet also offers tips on the types of foods to eat — and avoid — before boarding a long flight.
The guide is part of a larger dining scheme at Heathrow that will emphasize healthier food options, as well as British ingredients, gastronomy and talent for future openings. Terminal 2, for instance, is set to open 17 new food outlets in the coming months.
The new strategy was developed in part with popular food celebrities and MasterChef judges in the UK John Torode and Gregg Wallace, who were tasked with eating their way through the airport in 80 plates this past spring.
Fine-dining options at Heathrow include Caviar House and Prunier Seafood Bar, Gordon Ramsay Plane Food and Strada.
Heathrow expects to receive 13.8 million passengers through July and August.
Meanwhile, editors at popular food site The Daily Meal compiled a list of the best airport restaurants around the world last year, giving top nods to Porta Gaig restaurant inside the recently renovated El Prat del Llobregat airport in Barcelona, where flyers can tuck into roast chicken, veal and croquettes. The restaurant is helmed by Michelin-starred chef Carles Gaig.
Rounding out The Daily Meal’s top three airport restaurants around the world are Salt Lick BBQ at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas, and chef Rick Balyless’s Tortas Frontera, at Chicago O’Hare. — AFP/Relaxnews
