Best inflight meal?

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    BA744fan
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    Just stumbled across this old article from the DM and it got me thinking it might make a good light-hearted Friday topic to take our minds off the tragic events in Ukraine.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204818/Buckle-worst-flight-meals-skies-Disgusted-passengers-share-photos-airline-food-disasters.html

    I read BT every day and the quality of inflight food often gets mentioned in flight reviews, so my question is ” what is the best meal you have had on a flight, and which airline provided it?”


    canucklad
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    Easy peasy……they were famous for their in-flight cuisine. …..

    CP Air …..it was not unknown to be served up a slab of fillet mignon ,and wait for it…..in Y no less…..their 1st class offering was sensational.

    I mentioned somewhere else on the forum that their chef’s also mastered the art of partially cooking eggs and then finishing the job at 30’000ft.

    A special mention for the Macaroni & cheese that Bmi used to serve up on my way home on a Friday night. Always used too look forward to the 4th week…… And the rest of the cabin used to follow my lead after they caught on to me requesting the bottle of Worcestershire sauce from the bar trolley….ahhh memories. : )


    Poshgirl58
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    BA744fan, good idea but I wish I had not looked at those pictures immediately after eating lunch! My airline food experiences are limited mostly to charter flights, with exception of Monarch Scheduled and Cyprus Airways.

    I’ll sort them out as the best and the worst with appropriate comments. Sorry no pictures, but I will try to be descriptive.

    Cyprus Airways – lunch/dinner on LHR-PFO and BHX-PFO. Starter slice of smoked salmon with salad. Main was chicken in creamy mustard sauce (Chicken Tonight do something similar!), veg and rice. Dessert usualy a sticky cake. Main portion huge. Served with proper cutlery and free drinks on LHR route. Ah those were the days when CY knew how to look after their passengers.

    Monarch Scheduled – lunch and dinner, £5 each. Lunch main chicken & tarragon casserole with rice and veg, very tasty. Accompanied by a Lily O’Brien’s dessert, bread roll and box of cheese, crackers, red onion chutney. Dinner main was beef stroganoff with wild rice, very dry because it was overcooked but still tasty. Other bits same as lunch.

    Now for the worst. The runaway winner is Adria, we are going back to the ’80s though. Salad at 8am, with remains of a previous meal growing a lovely culture in between the seats! I have recently passed on ThomsonFly’s junk food offerings, favouring a meal deal from Boots instead. As a final thought, why do some airlines store their breadrolls in the washroom????


    Bullfrog
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    ANZ 747 used to have 12 seats in First Class. Before 911, serving restaurant quality food. I was amazed when I was informed that there was 100 % coverage of each dish.


    MrMichael
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    Best, a light lunch on SAS (business)back in the 80,s, prawn, smoked salmon and quails egg Danish open sandwiches with an ice cold Aquavit and cold Tuborg. Followed up with some cheese and crackers. Many a time I have replicated it at home as a lunchtime treat.

    Worse, has to be Iberia a few years ago in economy on Madrid-LHR. I think it was described as a roast vegetable risotto, it was over cooked rice with some carrot. I have never replicated this at home, and nor do I intend to.

    I must say, Iberia short haul food has improved in recent years, they don’t do any!


    talparis
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    Omen air 2 years ago before they went through a huge cut back due to massive losses, served an amazingly large choice & beautifully presented business class food. Emirates on first class this year with an a la carte menu serve some of the most awful food I have ever seen or tasted; (It looked like puke at times)
    Air france business class food pretend to be french haute cuisine while in fact serving in business class a tray of some of the saddest looking & tasting meal in the sky. The lazy sods cannot even plate serve.


    Hermes1964
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    Probably the most exotic, if not the best. BCAL in the early 1980s used to serve an extraordinarily ambitious starter in first class. I think it was called Polynesian crab, or some such – crab claws served in a coconut shell. It would have been challenging enough to eat if you’d had a full toolshed at your disposal. On a DC10 it was nigh on impossible!


    MartynSinclair
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    This is interesting because the question is specifically about a single meal, not who consistently provides the best meals…

    In 2014 I have flown mostly BA, to NYC, BKK and Europe. Flown in economy, business and first.

    Without question, the very best meal I have tasted… in 2014, was on a Club Europe sector the other week, MILAN Linate to Heathrow. The black cod was amazing….

    When I used to eat meat, the Satay courses in SQ were always delicious….


    DavidGordon10
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    Potugália, when they were fairly new (ca. 2000) in the international market, MAN – LIS.

    This was in economy, with a truly excellent starter and main course – with very fine Portuguese wine – and then the FAs cleared away. Then there were pastries. Then coffee and LBV port. Then the finest ice cream. All this in economy. I thought I was in heaven. Then I landed in Portugal for the first time in my life and realised that I was.


    LuganoPirate
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    Back in the old days it had to be Swissair. A 5 course meal in First, each course served from a trolley with Caviar of course. You could even get double portions of the starters when they cam round again. The beef or veal WW carved off the trolley in front of you. Excellent, champagnes, wines and port afterwards which you could enjoy with a good cigar. I still have some of the ashtrays and matches as souvenirs. Those were the days!

    Today it’s all rather dull I think and I rarely eat on board. Exceptions are Lufthansa for the caviar. Swiss for the cheese, and Qatar for the small plate of Mezze.


    FlyerDoc
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    Best: BA, CW, LHR-LAX. Fillet steak and dauphinois potatoes; remarkably, and much to my surprise, the steak was tender and sauce delicious.

    Most Disappointing: BA, F, LHR-HKG. Duck breast horribly dried out.

    Truly Awful: AA, F, SFO-JFK. A soggy toasted sandwich filled with unrecognisable, inedible mush. Possibly the most horrific item of food i have been served, ever!


    DoorsToManual
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    Easy: Singapore Business Class, Book the Chef (pre-order), Lobster Thermidor, it was sensational and a big portion too.


    DontTurnRight
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    CX first in 1980s/1990s. Caviar/salmon plate was exceptional

    Worst. Green scrambled egg on Air Malta flight a couple of years back.


    seasonedtraveller
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    Last weeks return MAN to YYZ with AC Rouge’ in Premier – outbound food to YYZ, ravioli, was cold but the return meal of chicken was really good.

    Today’s flight with Air Canada from YYZ to LAX in Business was excellent – chicken breast (nicely cooked, no skin) with saffron rice & broccoli in a rather nice wine sauce.

    Worst recently (this year) was, sorry to say, on BA from MIA to LHR, in WT+ dreadful limp salad & something like beetroot coleslaw as a ‘starter’ – beef so tough it couldn’t be cut with the knife provided, bread rolls so dry you could crumble them in your hand, and a truly awful slice of what I assume was banana cake (I only took one bite). ‘Butter’ provided for the bread wasn’t butter at all but some ghastly whipped substitute…..

    and all of this in a shabby old 747 on which my table took the shape of a ‘V’

    My all time favourite used to be SIA in business – wonderful.

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