Qantas Business Class meals & menus

[sudoer]

Sausage & egg muffin

Who's going to tell Neil that the sausage goes inside the muffin?

 

[blackcat20]

QF188 AKL-MEL.

The menu said beef with baked vegetables and cous cous.

I say stew.

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Beef was rubbery.

Vegetables were soggy.

The cous cous was…. Interesting.

Looks like risoni rather than couscous.

 

[dairyfloss]

Who's going to tell Neil that the sausage goes inside the muffin?

He'll just fix it with a comma

 

[jameswat]

Date: April 2026
Flight: QF34 PER - SYD
Service: Lunch
Meal: Caribbean chicken salad; refreshing and enjoyable choice. Also took the cheese (no photo but you can imagine a standard Qantas cheese plate ). Avro Spritz onboard to wash it all down.

 

[Ade]

Scones

Yes please!

strong cup of tea

Scones

scone

This comes to my mind when anyone says "scones"

 

[Mr_Orange]

He'll just fix it with a comma

Or it's deconstructed!

 

[dairyfloss]

Or it's deconstructed!

Yes - makes it even fancier!

 

[Captain Halliday]

Looks like risoni rather than couscous.

Yeah, certainly wasn’t cous cous. But that’s what the printed menu said.

I’m no pasta fan, and if it had been correctly identified on the menu I would have selected the alternate.

 

[Aeryn]

@Captain Halliday you do realise that cous cous is also a type of pasta (just African pasta not Italian), it is not a whole grain ?

 

[Captain Halliday]

@Captain Halliday you do realise that cous cous is also a type of pasta (just African pasta not Italian), it is not a whole grain ?

Yep, but vastly different texture and style to what was served, as noted by @blackcat20

 

[ToshiMio]

QF26 HND-SYD 12 APR

Good flight, although catering not as good as MEL-NRT. I wish Qantas offered more daytime flights from Asia - Australia like this one, especially from SIN.

New menu for April.



Fruit salad, cherry danish, and fritatta. Coffee was terribly burnt.



2nd meal a few hours before landing in Sydney. Prawn starter was nice, although a bit bare, and steak option was average as the ponzu sauce was terribly sweet and had a weird syrupy consistancy - you can see this is the photo. Should have selected the Japanese option. Cherry cheesecake fine, but very sweet, only had a few bites. Surprisingly, Neil's salad had tomatoes and a few pieces of broccoli instead of the usual bare salad!

 

[moa999]

Should have selected the Japanese option.

Always the better option out of Japan imho.

 

[Dmac59]

QF1004 HBA - MEL Tuesday 14/4 10:10am departure

2 options:
Frittata with pork sausage
Omelette with pork sausage, baked beans & chutney

 

[MelbFlyer]

Always the better option out of Japan imho.

From Australia too.

I selected the Japanese option on QF79 MEL to NRT and it was pretty good.

It was better than JL's offering on JL773 leaving NRT!

 

[ToshiMio]

From Australia too.

I selected the Japanese option on QF79 MEL to NRT and it was pretty good.

It was better than JL's offering on JL773 leaving NRT!

Agree. My recent QF79 Japanese meal was one of the best meals I have ever had on Qantas.

 

[frodo]

QF42 CGK-SYD dep 1950 a/c 332

For context, this flight arrives at around 0700h, and it's only about 7 hours block time; much less actual air time. One of the shorter "overnight from Asia" flights in the QF network (DPS flights are worse).

The menu, which was available in Indonesian and English:

• To Start
  • Roasted tomato soup with chive sour cream
  • Salad of prawns with brown rice, cucumber, chilli, sesame and ginger dressing
  • Balinese chicken skewers with sambal and almond satay sauce
• Main- served with green leaf salad with Neil's vinaigrette
  • Sauteed mushrooms with soft polenta, roasted sweet potatoes and green beans
  • Steamed snapper in banana leaf with sambal, coconut rice, fried bean curd and pickles
  • Roast chicken breast with potato puree, asparagus and coriander salsa
  • Beef bolognese with linguine, cherry tomatoes and parmesan
• To Finish
  • Selection of cheese served with accompaniments
  • Chocolate mousse with lime curd, pomelo and roasted coconut
  • Ice cream
  • Seasonal fruit
  • Homemade chocolates

Finally, time for breakfast. Well, whatever you might want to call it. The selection was (aside from standard drinks selection):

• Raisin muffin
• Seasonal fruit plate

Yep, that was it. I guess, in a flippant way, most people don't eat much for breakfast (and some skip it, both on board and on the ground). In a less flippant way, it was a short flight to start with and, time difference aside, it's a very early arrival. Some may argue that QF should have at least one hot option available - maybe this should have been available in lieu of one of the mains - and that's a very valid argument to make. Maybe I was just too tired (not horribly tired due to the lack of reclining seat), but I didn't care too much. Perhaps in hindsight, I should have taken the express option and opted just for a drink (viz. and only woken up 1 hr prior to landing), though it was difficult to get a long period of unfettered sleep in a non-reclining seat.

Did QF42 get enhanced or was I unlucky to receive the meals for QF40 on my flight?

Really poor for a 6.5 hr flight, especially with non-existent breakfast also (only fruit plate or a tiny muffin as described above).