Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

[FlyingKangaroo]

Based on the description, I expected something green: “pesto pasta salad with pumpkin and chicken”. But no, apparently it’s “pumpkin pesto” On a short flight so it was served cold (but would have been improved with a zap in the microwave).

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This looks like something you'd resign yourself to put together on a weeknight when you get home from work late and there's only a few bits and bobs of random leftovers in your fridge... oh, and the microwave is broken.

 

[Luke B]

Based on the description, I expected something green: “pesto pasta salad with pumpkin and chicken”. But no, apparently it’s “pumpkin pesto” On a short flight so it was served cold (but would have been improved with a zap in the microwave).

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Things didn’t get better with the second flight. There was a choice of pulled beef with potato and pesto, or spinach and cheese tortellini with tomato and leek cream. I was excited about the tortellini until the “and leek cream”. A simple tomato sauce would have been terrific, but leeks are a no. Unfortunately there were also lots of hidden onions in the pulled beef, which was not the only reason it was inedible. Terrible flavour combinations. The cheese and crackers did some heavy lifting on these flights. My neighbour also abandoned his pulled beef. The best VA meals are those that don’t try to be fancy and combine all sorts of random flavours. The Thai green chicken curry, for instance.

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What routes were these? I'm guessing the second is trans con judging by the dessert. Either way doesn't look appealing.

 

[bam71]

Breakfast Tuesday SYD MCY. Cheesy Bread with sausage and beans.

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

Breakfast Tuesday SYD MCY. Cheesy Bread with sausage and beans.

...I know VA's portions can leave something to be desired but there can't be more than 10 beans on that plate.

 

[Stealthflyer]

What routes were these? I'm guessing the second is trans con judging by the dessert. Either way doesn't look appealing.

HBA-MEL; MEL DPS. I decided to skip the return DPS meal and stick to the cheese and biscuits, but I took a gamble with the MEL-HBA, and was relieved when they didn’t offer a “pesto pasta with pumpkin” . But my relief was short lived because the “pasta salad with baby tomatoes and optional chicken” was the same dish by a different name. Totally fooled me. I wish they had printed pictorial menus.

 

[Stealthflyer]

This looks like something you'd resign yourself to put together on a weeknight when you get home from work late and there's only a few bits and bobs of random leftovers in your fridge... oh, and the microwave is broken.

Except I’d make something much tastier. Love a girl dinner.

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

HBA-MEL; MEL DPS. I decided to skip the return DPS meal and stick to the cheese and biscuits, but I took a gamble with the MEL-HBA, and was relieved when they didn’t offer a “pesto pasta with pumpkin” . But my relief was short lived because the “pasta salad with baby tomatoes and optional chicken” was the same dish by a different name. Totally fooled me. I wish they had printed pictorial menus.

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Sorry to laugh at your plight but this did trigger a genuine and involuntary chuckle.

 

[kerfuffle]

Breakfast Tuesday SYD MCY. Cheesy Bread with sausage and beans.

I also got this on VA917 SYD-BNE on Saturday. The other option was some hazelnut crepe thing with ricotta

 

[Silvia]

Seems like the cheesy bread, sausage, beans and the hazelnut crepe with ricotta are usual morning suspects.

I went for the crepes this morning on VA820 from Sydney to Melbourne

 

[AIRwin]

Sunday brunch of frittata from Apia:

 

[Mattg]

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I’m surprised they’re able to offer hot food on APW-BNE. Qantas doesn’t.

Was there a second option?

 

[AIRwin]

Was there a second option?

Vegetarian frittata

 

[anat0l]

Vegetarian frittata

So a meat frittata or a vegetarian frittata?

I’m surprised they’re able to offer hot food on APW-BNE. Qantas doesn’t.

The frittata can be served cold (or ambient); @AIRwin can confirm whether it was ambient or warm. I don't know if frittatas can be kept that long and still served safely - I guess the answer is "yes, they can".

Surely the ovens in the 737 could easily warm a frittata anyway. In addition, if the frittatas are stored as slices in a tray rather than plated individually, getting 16 of those (8 to go there, 8 to come back) is a... well... piece of cake in terms of space in the carts; the crew would just have to move the frittata from the warming tray onto the plate. What would be more interesting is how many slices of vegetarian and non-vegetarian frittata they had of each, but due to the size of slices of frittata, it would be easy to carry extras. The food waste from uneaten frittata is much less than throwing out whole plate hot meals.

Helps that VA have 8 less to cater for altogether on the return journey.

 

[AIRwin]

So a meat frittata or a vegetarian frittata?

The frittata can be served cold (or ambient); @AIRwin can confirm whether it was ambient or warm.

Mine had chorizo and was served warm