[PER-East Coast Business] catering particularly good at the moment

[Shane B]

Re: domestic [business] catering particularly good at the moment

+1 For the red chicken curry as well.

Encountered a 'lamb' curry a couple of months ago. The 'lamb' was cubes of some pressed meat - truly revolting.

 

[danny09]

Re: domestic [business] catering particularly good at the moment

That beef salad in J was absolutley amazing, was a really nice suprise. Well done QF.

 

[pauly7]

Indulged in an amazing French toast with chocolate sauce the other week in Mel-Syd J 'snack' service... Very unlike me to eat bad food but it was a very good tasting guilty treat!!! (Gym time doubled that day!!)

 

[Simo]

Re: domestic [business] catering particularly good at the moment

IMHO

Catering can be a little bit inconsistent depending on where the flight is re catered.

Generally I believe QF is getting it right more times and the quality is getting better

 

[AirKat]

Re: domestic [business] catering particularly good at the moment

I'll add my two cents

The penne pasta I really like, but have plain taste, I also like the meatballs and the pasta with choritzo. Breakfast flights I am so happy when they bring out the Lemnos bircher museli fruit and yoghurt, love the raspberry and the apple and cinnamon, if anyone knows where to buy it I will be very grateful!

Snack flights are not great, either a really high fat cookie packet, or a not so fresh roll with pancetta and parmesan (sounds good but isn't).

What makes me really upset is the way a 3:55pm Friday afternoon flight BNE-MEL landing at 6:15pm is a tea/coffee flight... just ridiculous

 

[Paddy55]

I guess Qantas have decided to try and combat the exceptional Business service/product VA have been providing on their 330's.

(Why so long? Contracts need renegotiation perhaps?)

On that basis I wish DJ would put an A330 on the SYD-DRW run.
On a 767 there and back earlier this month and while the food was OK, it wasn't a patch on the SYD-PER run, even though they were lunch and dinner runs, and the flight time isn't a lot different?

Hope you're listening to the constructive criticism as much as the plaudits, Red Roo

 

[Damon_m]

I flew business Pth to Mel on sat, plane was old 767 but the food selection was very nice, I chose a Australian trout and it was Devine.

 

[brad330]

QF924 0915 SYD-1225 CNS 763 in J the meal service is a Brunch/Refreshment service consisting of a choice of a toasted sandwich or salad. I find this portioning to small for a flight of 3hrs10mins

 

[simongr]

I tend to fly SYD-MEL in the morning (7AM) and don't take breakfast in flight (mainly because I don't eat muesli). Flights home are also late afternoon so no meal. I have been used to the snack - cold meat/olives/flat bread which was replaced on BNE-SYD on Fri with a cheese snack that was a little more substantial and had a delightful little tomato relish.

My next flight to MEL is an evening flight (19:00) so I will get to experience both Island dining in the lounge (first time ever) and dinner in flight so will report back. If however it is spinach an pumpkin pasta then my only report will be how hungry I am as I can't imagine a worse dish unless it was beetroot, oyster and olive salad with sweet chilli dressing.

 

[Chimpy]

A shame it has not improved on qantaslink. This is a photo of my roll last week between BNE and ROK. On the packet it said it was ham, lettuce and seeded mustard. As you can see there was no ham in it and very little lettuce.

 

[Deleted member]

Maybe we could see a version of sushi train on board, just choose your dish as it passes by your seat, and total up the plates at the end of the flight......
Well in cartoon land maybe !!

 

[Berlin]

Just came back from a J class return up to Cairns and the food was on the rather boring side, the distinct lack of anything red meat doesn't get unnoticed: We got the usual chicken main with a fish salad and then on the way back the fish main with the (admittedly excellent) chicken salad.

The lovely lady serving us actually moaned about how boring the food choices up in J are and told us that "hardly anyone ever wants to eat the ocean trout, I don't understand why they keep putting this up there! e never see any beef or lamb anymore these days". On the return, four of the 12 J pax didn't get their meal choice anymore and as none of them wanted the trout, they all ended up eating the vegetarian pasta from the back of the bus.

 

[mannej]

I flew business Pth to Mel on sat, plane was old 767 but the food selection was very nice, I chose a Australian trout and it was Devine.

Berlin - this post just shows you how tastes are particularly individual when it comes to food!

 

[Berlin]

Berlin - this post just shows you how tastes are particularly individual when it comes to food!

Oh- I know. Unfortunately, in my case it's not taste but rather an allergy towards any animal from the sea :-| And Qantas, unfortunately, doesn't do Non-Seafood meals.

 

[Canny man]

If the trout is the one with the curry sauce, then it is great. I wondered about this the other week when I was told it was smoked trout, but it came out as a slice of fish in a red curry sauce. It was absolutely lovely ( and by the way I'm a foodie, not a shovel it in merchant and have complained on this forum and directly about the poor state of j catering on the flight out of Santiago) so no way was I complaining about the discrepancy.

 

[nanks85]

Going on a 767 in november in J. Flight departed is 17:45 ex Adelaide to Sydney QF766. Even though it says refreshment for meal type. You would think at that departure time it should be a dinner service instead of refreshment. What sort of meal should i expect? Dinner or just a snack? Ps i am a J class virgin. So i'm not so sure.

 

[Kangol]

A shame it has not improved on qantaslink. This is a photo of my roll last week between BNE and ROK. On the packet it said it was ham, lettuce and seeded mustard. As you can see there was no ham in it and very little lettuce.

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Maybe the ham was concentrated in the spot where you took a bite and you didn't know about it until afterwards?

 

[jastel]

One for the experts...

Does Premium Econ get the same food as Econ or Business or something in between on the long haul LAX flights?

 

[Damon_m]

Going on a 767 in november in J. Flight departed is 17:45 ex Adelaide to Sydney QF766. Even though it says refreshment for meal type. You would think at that departure time it should be a dinner service instead of refreshment. What sort of meal should i expect? Dinner or just a snack? Ps i am a J class virgin. So i'm not so sure.

Hi Nanks

I would surely think you would have dinner but if the fare states refreshment... It sound like that's all you will get. I just looked at some of my upcoming flights but they all had either lunch, breakfast or refreshment.. I have no evening flights booked at the moment.

 

[Canny man]

As promised I took the same BNE PER flight in J yesterday to see whether it was going to be 2 in a row. It certainly was. The excellent young CSM recommended the snapper so I went with that.

Entree was a very decent king prawn salad (a welcome break from the soups). The snapper was served with rice and a red curry sauce. It was a decent sized cut and cooked perfectly. Once again I thoroughly enjoyed a restaurant quality meal in the air. I washed the food down with an excellent Xanadu chardonnay and a Tower cab sauv.In chatting with the CSM he mentioned that there had been changes in catering arrangements in BNE and that it was showing in the right sort of way.


Although we were delayed out of BNE, the crew went out of their way to make the flight comfortable and showed QF at its best. I'm quick to criticise when things aren't right, so think it fair to complement when they go well.
Only downside is I'm Y on the way back so won't be able to check for 3 in a row.....