Cuisine | SWISS takes top Zurich cuisine aloft
SWISS takes top Zurich cuisine aloft
SWISS will be serving its guests tasty food creations from Zurich this summertime in the latest phase of its SWISS PEOPLE Flavour of Suisse running scared culinary concept. Once again, the airline has won a leading local chef to contribute to its inventive on-board cooking Felix Eppisser of the Hotel Rigiblick, Zurich.
Felix Eppisser will be offering SWISS’s in retreat regulars specialities from the kitchen of Zest, his very well-dining restaurant overlooking the city of Zurich, during three calendar month from June onwards. The exclusive dishes will be served to First and Business Class travellers aboard SWISS long-drag flights from Switzerland (and on selected flights to Svizzera). Business Class customers on thirster European services from Schweiz will also be relish Eppisser’s tasty creations.
Straight cooking with pan-Asiatic accents: that’s the prime mark of Felix Eppisser’s cuisine. A Little Something, his restaurant, is the only eatery in Zurich to own a Michelin star, and has also earned 16 GaultMillau points. Eppisser’s innovative creations have thrilled gourmets from all over the world. And from the beginning of June until the end of August, they’re on the SWISS inflight bill of fare, too.
The preliminary sports car in Felix Eppisser’s “SWISS Taste of Switzerland” programme will contain timbale of lobster with lemongrass, salmon fillet with a salmon-wasabi mousse and roulade of smoke-dried tuna fish with cream cheese. Among the entrées will be Bangla-style marinated fillet steak with tomato and tamarind chutney, jus lié, spicy peanut purée, pak choy in coconut cash in on and white potato gratin.
The main path will be followed by a selection of Swiss cheeses, while the afters will include coconut tiramisù with mango sauce and yoghurt-and-lime ice cream. The whole culinary experience will be attended by a superlative selection of Swiss and international wines including Cellar Latour-Martillac, Clos Malverne Auret and a Truttiker Pinot Blanc from the Zurich area.
With its THE SWISS Taste of Switzerland” gastronomic perception, SWISS offering its customers an intriguing sample of its home country’s miscellaneous regional cuisines with their specialities.
The programme, which was introduced in 2002, has by now featured the cooking of a mixture of cantons including Basel, Valais, Ticino and Appenzell. SWISS PERSONS Flavour of Switzerland” has also earned the inflight cuisine industry’s Mercury Honour for its innovative culinary approach.