The new coffee shop operated by AREAS is being relaunched under the Le Pain Quotidien brand.
The new coffee shop operated by AREAS is being relaunched under the Le Pain Quotidien brand.
Bordeaux Airport, together with its partner AREAS, today inaugurates its new retail offer: Le Pain Quotidien. Located at the entrance to Terminal billi, the new outlet is set within the departures and check-in area, combining comfort, efficiency and environmental responsibility to provide passengers with a travel experience that meets their expectations.
The design of this 600m² extension combines operational and energy performance, following a bioclimatic approach. A landscaped terrace further enhances the development, which has been carried out without additional soil sealing, reflecting the airport’s commitment to responsible expansion.
Le Pain Quotidien, in its coffee shop format, is the latest catering concept operated by Areas France.
“This extension marks an important step in the transformation of our airport. This new offer meets several expectations: more diversified, more local, more convivial. And this is only the beginning: modernisation will continue until 2028 to bring our platform up to the highest European standards,” says Simon Dreschel, Chairman of the Executive Board of Bordeaux Airport.
A major player in travel dining, Areas operates in France across four sectors: motorways, airports, leisure parks and railway stations.
As a travel retail specialist, Areas was selected by Bordeaux Airport to introduce the Le Pain Quotidien brand in a format tailored to the airport environment: a coffee shop with both seating and takeaway, designed to meet travellers’ needs.
The space, created by the Areas France teams, offers 120 seats spread between the interior and the terrace. The menu, specially curated by the marketing team, will evolve every three months in line with the seasons to continually surprise travellers.
Customers will find the brand’s signature favourites, starting with a wide selection of hot drinks made from organic coffee (latte macchiato, flat white, mocha, golden latte, matcha latte…), as well as refreshing alternatives such as frappés, including the choco-cookie frappé, developed in France for the first time specifically for this outlet.
On the food side, sandwiches, salads and tartines are prepared on site using fresh ingredients. Signature recipes include the Comté-dagobert sandwich, the blue cheese tartine and a Thai salad with exotic flavours.
Gourmet breakfasts give pride of place to pastries and house specialities: scrambled egg sandwich, cinnamon roll, granola parfait… not forgetting a selection of desserts inspired by American tradition (cookies, cakes, muffins), enriched with local specialities such as canelés, as well as the famous Liège waffle, a nod to the brand’s Belgian identity.
A fine grocery range also enables customers to take home signature products such as financiers, spreads, chocolate bars or boxes of tea.
Vegetarian recipes are also well catered for, with a vegan chocolate–chia muffin, a vegetarian Thai wrap and a spinach roll.
This offer, both wholesome and indulgent, has been designed to meet the demands of a high-traffic environment: fast service without compromising on quality. To this end, the outlet has been designed with two distinct customer pathways to ease queues according to the chosen mode of consumption: dine-in or takeaway.
“Drawing on our expertise in travel retail, we have designed this coffee shop as a gourmet stopover perfectly integrated into the passenger journey, capable of meeting the expectations of an airport environment in constant motion,” says Yves Lacheret, Chief Executive Officer of Areas France.
