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Airport grub doesn’t have a particularly good rep – and it’s not hard to see why. Often aviation hubs’ food options are small and limited to big-name (typically fast-food) chains, and come with a significant price hike.
If you find a decent airport food outlet, then it’s worth making note – and over at Bloomberg the publication’s editors have done just that. Bloomberg recently named the best airport restaurants in the world ‘according to business power travellers’, crowning eight terminal restos that are a cut above the rest.
Excitingly for Londoners (and those visiting the capital anytime soon), one of Bloomberg’s airport restaurants is at a London airport. Le Café Cyril Lignac at Louis Vuitton at Heathrow Terminal 2 features in the list.
Le Café Cyril Lignac opened last October and adjoins a Louis Vuitton store. The menu is by French chef Cyril Lignac (also behind Bar des Prés in Mayfair), and it offers an all-day menu of both pastries and fancy sit-down food. If you’ve been to LHR’s Terminal 2 in recent months, you may well have caught sight of the new restaurant – it’s practically impossible not to spot thanks to its bold curved façade.
About Le Café Cyril Lignac, Bloomberg wrote: ‘Tucked inside the undulating entryway to the sparkling new Terminal 2 store, this upscale cafe marks the first collaboration between LVMH and acclaimed French chef Cyril Lignac.
‘His croque monsieur, with or without truffles, and a Caesar salad embellished with smoked chicken and gluten-free croutons are present and accounted for—as are Lignac’s famous pastries.’
So, now you have somewhere to check out next time you’re at Heathrow’s T2! And this isn’t the first time that LHR has received plaudits for its food. Around this time last year, Terminal 5 was named one of the best aviation spots on the planet for its nosh and drinks by Food & Wine.
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Millions of us regularly use London’s biggest airport – and here at Time Out LHR has been in the news quite a bit in recent months. We went inside plans to upgrade two terminals and open a third runway, wrote about how the airport broke impressive records in 2024 and dived deep into (shelved) plans for a train linking Heathrow with Gatwick.
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