Lunch at Heathrow anyone? Louis Vuitton’s first ever UK café is a jet-set dining paradise at Terminal 2. Tatler’s style editor heads to the airport to try it out for themselves

Chef Cyril Lignac brings his culinary excellence to the new venue

Lignac’s all-day menu is truly a nomadic gourmand’s delight. Packing in decades of expertise from his seven Parisian-hometown hotspots, and his scene-y London edition on Albemarle Street, Bar de Prés, Lignac provides a French-tinted, international offering that is sure to wet the the tastebuds of those with the most discerning palettes. It’s so delicious, in fact, that I hear some deep-pocketed guests have been booking flights out of Terminal 2 just to try it out. Now that’s what I call dedication to supreme cuisine.

I flip through the pages of the leather-bound tome where Lignac’s quintessential culinary hits are front-and-centre of its Carte du Jour. Eggs Royale with smoked salmon and hollandaise sauce; lobster rolls with avocado and pickled vegetables; Croque-monsieur topped with French truffle – all the seductive strings in Lignac’s fine dining bow sing harmoniously under the banner of Louis Vuitton (I tried them all, naturally). The house’s insignia even gets an encore in some stand-out dishes, with croutons shaped as the instantly recognisable blossom motif topping quite possibly the freshest Caesar salad I’ve ever tasted, among other items.

A Louis Vuitton-inspired dessert

Dessert, another of Lignac’s many talents, is paramount to the experience. His pastries prove that Paris is still the mecca of such baked goods, now gladly available on this side of the commuter belt. A mango and passion fruit Eton Mess conjures a homegrown-yet-well-travelled joie de vivre, meanwhile, the aptly dubbed ‘dessert inspired by Louis Vuitton’ is a delightfully sweet mellifluence of crunchy chocolate raspberry and melt-in-your-mouth soft puff pastry. All washed down with a crisp glass of Moët, lunch at Heathrow is now officially set to rival the West End when it comes to dining in style.

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