Qantas Business Class meals & menus

[penny6]

October 1, SYD - MEL QF443

Punted out of 2C on boarding because the seat was broken, my partner was about to be seated next to Senator James Paterson in Row 1, until the very lovely CSM Angela shuffled a couple of other pax around and slotted us together into Row 3.

No PDB.

Mrs Jukebox - Salmon Salad

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Chicken Curry for me.

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Angela made our flight. Friendly, attentive to all 11 pax in the J cabin, and with enough care that it felt very personal, not perfunctionary. She's the sort of staff that can make a QF flight great, even a short hop.

After a pause to graze from the Spice Bar, it was MEL - PER on QF 765

PDB was bottled water on the armrests.

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Braised beef for me.

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Thai curry for Mrs J.

The bean salad is a strange one. The B737 we were on had tray tables that totally cantilvered - the MEL-SYD ones spanned the arm rests. As a result, these ones dipped deeply when you tried to cut the prosciutto... I failed that task, then had to mimic a python eating a possum, trying to digest the wad of smallgoods...

Nothing wrong with the service, just did not have that personal touch that makes a good flight a great one. All four meals on the good side of acceptable - the curries even had a bit of kick, which was nice.

Thanks for sharing! I am curious re your comment on the bean salad - why was it strange? What kind of beans? Did it taste weird? Was the prosciutto not a great paring? Was it just beans? Sorry so many questions but just love to know more about what it was like as I can't see much below the prosciutto

 

[anat0l]

Thanks for sharing! I am curious re your comment on the bean salad - why was it strange? What kind of beans? Did it taste weird? Was the prosciutto not a great paring? Was it just beans? Sorry so many questions but just love to know more about what it was like as I can't see much below the prosciutto

I think I've seen or had a similar salad before. I believe the base is white beans (small ones, like kidney beans), and they usually get served a bit al dente (a bit hard for my liking). I can't quite remember what else is in it, but I think maybe chopped tomato amongst other things. The prosciutto is the most dominant and only source of salt in that salad (aside from maybe the dressing, if there is/was one), but I'm not sure if it blends or it just tries to complete a veg and meat combination (less so if the prosciutto is not able to be cut!).

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

Flavour combination of the actual dish aside, beans just don't strike me as a brilliant choice in the air. Even also setting aside the potential impact on -- shall we say -- the "olfactory experience" of the cabin, it's just not a pleasant feeling to be bloated on an airplane.

Perhaps some don't experience this but I've travelled enough to now make it a habit to avoid large amounts of legumes and cruciferous veggies in the day or so leading up to a flight, let alone during one.

 

[Aeryn]

16:45 MEL-SYD snack flight was a choice of a cheese platter + chocolate bar or a beef gozleme + chocolate bar.

I had the cheese platter, guy next t me had the gozleme and noted it was 2 sheets of filo with a mince meat filling, not the softer dough that is usually used in a gozleme.