Qantas Business Class meals & menus

[Coathanger]

QF 728
SYD-AYQ

9:30AM departure to Uluṟu with delightful scones on offer. Lovely attentive crew made for a pleasant flight.

 

[serfty]

DFW to  MEL BNE last week. We left 4 hours late, eventually diverting to Brisbane. The late departure may explain how cooked the food was.


Pre Dinner GnT

Dumplings ... really nice

Beef cheeks, extremy tender but basically over cooked.
Mid flight chicken snack. This was very nice.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

DFW to  MEL BNE last week. We left 4 hours late, eventually diverting to Brisbane. The late departure may explain how cooked the food was.

the food will come on board snap/blast chilled. And won’t start cooking until after takeoff.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

SYD > ADL 3pm dep
Sausage roll and greens

 

[Berlin]

SYD > ADL 3pm dep
Sausage roll and greens

We had this the other day MEL-SYD. Sausage roll itself was really yummie, the green fizzle and god awful pumpkin mash (why, oh why!) on the side they could have spared us in my personal opinion.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

There was also prosciuitto and green salad as the other option.

 

[vhojm]

Qf30 HKG-MEL on VH-QPE. Christmas night flight.
Menu attached and will post pictures after we land. Menu is cough as discussed earlier in this thread in December.

 

[vhojm]

Food on QF30 was just fine, customer service manager was excellent and wearing a sparkly green jacket for Christmas. Dumplings and chicken below.

 

[Berlin]

I don’t know but this menu looks actually surprisingly nice, especially coming from Asia where Qantas tends to serve fish with seafood and then some more fish on the side Duck dumplings and pork main- I’m in!

Selling the “premium” salted nuts as an “aperitivo” is such typical Qantas spin, however, one can only roll their eyes really heavily…

 

[vhojm]

I don’t know but this menu looks actually surprisingly nice, especially coming from Asia where Qantas tends to serve fish with seafood and then some more fish on the side Duck dumplings and pork main- I’m in!

Selling the “premium” salted nuts as an “aperitivo” is such typical Qantas spin, however, one can only roll their eyes really heavily…

I don’t tend to eat pork belly which makes it hard and I know from the Chinese family sitting in the middle of row 3 that the pork was terrible.

I don’t think I had ever willingly ordered chicken in international business before but it was not as bad as I expected. We had filled up in the Pier First before though which probably helped.

 

[Aeryn]

Printed menu back on NZ flights. I normally would go for beef but as id eaten in the F Lounge opted for chicken which was quite tasty especially the pickled daikon.



Noting no Koko Black chocolate supplied, im guessing because of the xmas cookie.

 

[Daver6]

I gave the kosher meal a whirl yesterday, ADL-PER....in whY. Other than the presentation and lack of wine options, I'd say its about equal to and better than some domestic J meals. It was actually one of the weaker main kosher dishes I've had over the years. Having said that, the steamed veges still had crunch and at least the meat isn't gristle. The lammington was moist and delicious!

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I gave the kosher meal a whirl yesterday, ADL-PER....in whY. Other than the presentation and lack of wine options, I'd say its about equal to and better than some domestic J meals. It was actually one of the weaker main kosher dishes I've had over the years. Having said that, the steamed veges still had crunch and at least the meat isn't gristle. The lammington was moist and delicious!

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Question on the kosher meal… for the hot element… they present you with the pack to break the seal… do they the. take it back to the galley to heat? Or is the dish heated when brought to you?

Interested to know because a passenger behind me on a Cathay flight was asked to break the seal. She actually said ‘can i just take it home with me’… to which the answer was ‘no’

 

[Daver6]

Question on the kosher meal… for the hot element… they present you with the pack to break the seal… do they the. take it back to the galley to heat? Or is the dish heated when brought to you?

Interested to know because a passenger behind me on a Cathay flight was asked to break the seal. She actually said ‘can i just take it home with me’… to which the answer was ‘no’

Before departure they come and ask if you want to break the seal (ie show you that the meal hasn't been opened). I just tell them to go ahead themselves, I don't need to view my food (unless it's to select a steak or that kosher lobster ). If you do want to see it first, it's prior to be being heated.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Before departure they come and ask if you want to break the seal (ie show you that the meal hasn't been opened). I just tell them to go ahead themselves, I don't need to view my food (unless it's to select a steak or that kosher lobster ). If you do want to see it first, it's prior to be being heated.

thanks! so once the seal is broken… by the pax at the seat if they so want… the crew are free to handle it? That doesn’t break any laws like keeping it from being in contact with non Kosher food or dairy or whatever? Or is it more a case of ‘that’s the best that can be achieved in the circumstances of an airplane galley’?

 

[Daver6]

thanks! so once the seal is broken… by the pax at the seat if they so want… the crew are free to handle it? That doesn’t break any laws like keeping it from being in contact with non Kosher food or dairy or whatever? Or is it more a case of ‘that’s the best that can be achieved in the circumstances of an airplane galley’?

I'm not entirely sure to be honest. I just assumed the seal at the seat is to confirm the meal hasn't been tampered with (for want of a better word). The hot dish was still very well protected. It was in a foil container with a foil lid. That was then wrapped solidly with aluminium foil. Then it was wrapped with a heat proof clear plastic (which is how it was given to me out the oven). There was no way some stray pork was ever going to make it inside that meal

I actually joked with MrsDaver6 that they need to give you a box cutter to get into the meal!