Qantas Business Class meals & menus

[anat0l]

QF1937 BNE-ADL op Alliance dep 1630 a/c E90

Balinese chicken curry with snake beans and rice. Actually, I'm not sure if they are very small snake beans or garlic shoots. Other option was a falafel and hummus salad. I was in 3F and both options were still available when I was served.

Accompaniments were a flourless orange cake and sourdough bread with Pepe Saya butter.

The curry tasted fine, with decent and fragrant flavour in the sauce. While it was fine for me, some people may have wanted to add some salt, as it kind of lacks a bit of punch you expect in curries. It was far from tasteless, however. Chicken was moist enough and not tough.

 

[anat0l]

QF690 ADL-MEL dep 1615 a/c 738

Za'atar spiced beef gozleme, served with rocket and parmesan garnish salad. Accompaniments of a bread roll and Koko Black macadamia and wattleseed chocolate bar. Other option was a Ploughman's platter.

The gozleme was stuffed with spiced minced beef, spinach and cheese. It was presented with a pastry top and bottom, so it was more like an open stack then a true gozleme. Overall tasty, though a bit salty for my liking. Quite dry (though most gozlemes in the kebab shop are) and the pastry, while fine, might be something people might take or leave, given the timing of the flight. The pastry was not crispy (and again, most gozlemes aren't crispy).

 

[anat0l]

QF1264 (Qantaslink) MEL-BNE dep 2200 a/c 222

The last flight out of MEL that night, arriving at an ungodly hour in BNE (airport staff there probably annoyed that we're keeping them from going home). So was rather fascinated what would be the choices on a flight like this.

I had the salad of hot smoked salmon, dill, spinach, wilted cherry tomatoes and potatoes, with a shallot vinaigrette. I think it's supposed to be inspired by a Niçoise salad (but no eggs or capers). Accompaniments of a salted caramel and walnut sticky date cake and sourdough with Pepe Saya butter. Other option was a Djerba chicken curry with rice.

Smoked salmon was a decent amount (was not expecting a whole steak), definitely smoked and tasted good, but like a lot of hot smoked salmons, it was dry. Thank goodness the vinaigrette was there (as well as the moist cherry tomatoes). Can't really go wrong with salted caramel and sticky date, unless you're supposed to be counting your sugar.

Given the flight is 2 hours and there are a mere 10 passengers, CSM conducted the meal service relatively slowly (no! not J on Global Airlines inaugural service slow). First flight for me on the new QF A220; I notice that the PA system has been loaded with stock announcements, which were fully utilised by the crew (a la VA). I think they might have even used the same voice as the VA announcements. Interestingly, I can see the touch screen system at the front near the crew seats, and the PA module shows all the preloaded PAs in a list (with titles of what the PA is); when a PA is played, it shows a bar with the time remaining counting down.

 

[hutch]

QF4 AKL-SYD DEP0645

Generally, plane breakfasts don't excite me and this meal kept that trend going.

Went the Avocado and boiled egg route. Adequate is how I'd best describe it.

Emirates lounge was nice beforehand and always pleasant to be on a wide body in business.

 

[flightsonpoints]

QF430 MEL-SYD 27/5

J Crew was good

3 Breakfast options
Fetta, Tomato, Rocket with Toast
Meatball Sandwich
Fruit Platter

 

[MZFlyer]

QF59 SYD-HND on a recent weekday

Japanese lunch option: bento then yakitori, then the chocolate raspberry pudding from the main menu as well as the "traditional Japanese sweet" (a not very Japanese fudgey dark chocolate thing, but possibly made with rice flour). All delicious!

 

[Daver6]

QF616 Melbourne to Brisbane. 12.15pm departure. Red chicken curry. Delicious. Good flavours with a hint of heat.

 

[hutch]

QF879 OOL to MEL 1400 DEP

Options were Harissa Lamb or Roast Chicken - can't recall the description, but was served with a mushroom style sauce.

It was very tasty and the service very good. The proactive top ups of my vintage coca-cola zero were appreciated.

 

[Kalliste]

MEL > CBR. A huge plate for a lonely, little Lindor. After seeing a couple of posts here I've been hopeful for a Koko Black bar, but that isn't to be for us apparently.

I'd also take any of the above meals over this savoury french toast with baked beans and bacon at 12:30pm. Anyone else had this? What is the mystery white stuff inside? Made me think of tofu. Potentially some type of cheese.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

MEL > CBR. A huge plate for a lonely, little Lindor. After seeing a couple of posts here I've been hopeful for a Koko Black bar, but that isn't to be for us apparently.

I'd also take any of the above meals over this savoury french toast with baked beans and bacon at 12:30pm. Anyone else had this? What is the mystery white stuff inside? Made me think of tofu. Potentially some type of cheese.
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Yes! I had this dish for breakfast last month SYD-MEL… my one was absolutely delicious!! The crew member actually thought it was a frittata, but no, it was actually 2 pieces of french toast sandwiching more cheese

It’s not gourmet by any stretch… but as an occasional treat i thought it was pretty good!

 

[JIMMYTHEJET]

MEL > CBR. A huge plate for a lonely, little Lindor. After seeing a couple of posts here I've been hopeful for a Koko Black bar, but that isn't to be for us apparently.

I'd also take any of the above meals over this savoury french toast with baked beans and bacon at 12:30pm. Anyone else had this? What is the mystery white stuff inside? Made me think of tofu. Potentially some type of cheese.
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I asked for chocolate on a syd Mel flight breaskfast . Assuming it would be koko. Black
But they only had the warmed danish
Which was nice

 

[Daver6]

Two J flights in the last week. One had a Lindt ball, the other no chocolate on offer.

 

[hutch]

Two J flights in the last week. One had a Lindt ball, the other no chocolate on offer.

I received the Koko Black chocolate yesterday and Lindt ball today.

 

[anat0l]

MEL > CBR. A huge plate for a lonely, little Lindor. After seeing a couple of posts here I've been hopeful for a Koko Black bar, but that isn't to be for us apparently.

I'd also take any of the above meals over this savoury french toast with baked beans and bacon at 12:30pm. Anyone else had this? What is the mystery white stuff inside? Made me think of tofu. Potentially some type of cheese.
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Mystery white stuff inside might be either cheese or bechamel, maybe?

Two J flights in the last week. One had a Lindt ball, the other no chocolate on offer.

I received the Koko Black chocolate yesterday and Lindt ball today.

I should have mentioned in my QF1264 flight just above - as you can see there was no Koko Black chocolate bar but a sticky date cake instead. However, coming up from Y one of the FAs was handing out Lindt balls to those who accepted (yeah, some people actually declined, weird... just kidding...). I was given two Lindts when I accepted from the FA.

 

[Daver6]

I received the Koko Black chocolate yesterday and Lindt ball today.

Let's see what today brings...

 

[Daver6]

Very surprised to see a pre departure drink being offered.

 

[Ansett]

What was the flight details?

 

[Daver6]

Very surprised to see a pre departure drink being offered.

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What was the flight details?

BNE-DRW QF824 8:20am departure

 

[Daver6]

Very surprised to see a pre departure drink being offered.

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BNE-DRW QF824 8:20am departure

Breakfast. No signs of any chocolate either. Other options were an omelette or a quiche

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Very surprised to see a pre departure drink being offered.

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BNE-DRW QF824 8:20am departure

Breakfast. No signs of any chocolate either. Other options were an omelette or a quiche

 

[Kalliste]

Very surprised to see a pre departure drink being offered.

I've only flown Qantas business class a couple of times and was surprised to not be offered a pre departure drink. It's always been offered on Virgin and they seem to always have 2 meal options.
I assumed Qantas would have the better business offering, but Virgin seems to do a better job of it - at least in my experience, mostly flying CBR > MEL