SWISS will be taking its guests on a ‘gourmet trip to Canton Uri’ in the next chapter of its ‘SWISS Taste of Switzerland’ inflight menu. The latest special meal creations for First and Business Class travellers are the work of top chef Joshua Lüscher, chef de cuisine at the famed Zwyssighaus restaurant in the village of Bauen on the shores of Lake Lucerne. With such fine dining highlights as a tatar of pikeperch and mustard pickles, braised beef shoulder and jus with morels and rhubarb tiramisu, the new SWISS inflight menus bring the aromas of Central Switzerland aloft.

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“We’re extremely pleased to bring the flavors of Canton Uri to our inflight guests,” says SWISS Head of Brand Experience Julia Hillenbrand. “Joshua Lüscher’s meals are a deft blend of traditional fare and contemporary flair, which sits excellently with who and what SWISS aspires to be. His creations surprise the senses and bring new life to the familiar aromas of the Uri region’s cuisine.”

Every three months, in collaboration with catering partner gategourmet, a new top chef is invited to create a varied selection of quality dishes from their ‘home’ canton to be served aboard SWISS’s long-haul flights from Switzerland. The meal creations are also accompanied by wines and cheeses from the region concerned. As the prime supplier of SWISS’s inflight food and beverage product, gategourmet ensures that all these meal creations arrive on board in the finest possible quality. gategourmet (styled with a lower case ‘g’) is a subsidiary of gategroup, the world’s leading provider of airline catering and inflight sales products.