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Ponant partners with Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse for fleetwide menu creation

Ponant partners with Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse for fleetwide menu creation
French luxury operator Ponant is partnering with Ducasse Education, the catering training arm of Michelin-starred French cook Alain Ducasse, to create menus and train shipboard chefs to provide a consistent fleet-wide culinary offering and service across ten onboard restaurants.

For Jean-Emmanuel Sauvée, Ponant chairman, this partnership, 'will raise our culinary standards in order to better meet the very high expectations of our French and international passengers.'

Carole Pourchet, managing director of Alain Ducasse Entreprise, expressed a particular pride in working with Ponant, 'in its pursuit of excellence à la française.'