Current Qantas First Lounge Menu (SYD/MEL) and relevant topics

[Red Roo]

Happy Friday!

All this food talk has made Red Roo very hungry.

Just to confirm the new winter menu will be effective as of 1 June 2016 and we will ensure the Rockpool site is updated with the correct menu

 

[defurax]

Happy Friday!
All this food talk has made Red Roo very hungry.

So I guess it's a case of "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain"

http://www.australianfrequentflyer....requent-flyer-program/red-roo-gone-75988.html

 

[DavidFlynn]

Also, "much loved" sounds very QF PR-y, Mr Flynn.

It's a play on the title of the book.

 

[flychrisfly]

Happy Friday!

All this food talk has made Red Roo very hungry.

Just to confirm the new winter menu will be effective as of 1 June 2016 and we will ensure the Rockpool site is updated with the correct menu

Missed it by that much! In Syd F lounge for lunch on 31st May - hopefully they won't be serving leftovers!

 

[kermatu]

Missed it by that much! In Syd F lounge for lunch on 31st May - hopefully they won't be serving leftovers!

By the sounds of it you might get some new dishes. I'm in MEL end-May and hoping for one or two new things to try.

 

[mviy]

All this food talk has made Red Roo very hungry.

Just to confirm the new winter menu will be effective as of 1 June 2016 and we will ensure the Rockpool site is updated with the correct menu

This makes me very hungry too.

However I don't reach WP till I get back home to Australia from LHR, so I will have to be patient and wait till next year to experience what the FLounge in Australia has to offer. Looking forward to trying the FLounge food.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Happy Friday!

All this food talk has made Red Roo very hungry.

Just to confirm the new winter menu will be effective as of 1 June 2016 and we will ensure the Rockpool site is updated with the correct menu

Brilliant
Just in time for my flight to LAX !!
Looking forward to it.

 

[serfty]

I'll be there for breakfast in a couple of weeks.

Moved from QF95 to QF93 next day ... with the 95 full menu is an option not so with 93 ....

 

[RooFlyer]

Just polished off the Chairman's pork ( chairman Mao, that is). Very nice.

Great staff member - I asked what Reds were behind the counter (almost said under the bed ) but he found little. He then said he could have a look in the stock downstairs that they had left over from the Dom Chairman's Lounge (Qantas Chairman this time.). "Liberate away" I replied!

Am currently supping on a nice Rockford. There is virtually no one else in the lounge (MEL) so I think the next hour or two will be usefully spent.

oh, the pavlova was fantastic. I guess I'll have to leave it some discrete time, but there will be another before I board!

 

[DavidFlynn]

Am currently supping on a nice Rockford.

The Basket Press? It's a top drop! I've been 'converted' to many wines at the F lounge, sample them there and end up buying a few bottles for the home cellar. Best surprise decant I ever had would have been Penfolds RWT, but it's a tad out of my price range...

 

[mviy]

The Basket Press? It's a top drop!

That's my friend's favourite wine (he drinks it very rarely saving it for very special occasions). It's the best wine Rockford produces and if you are a member that can buy it you can only get it in limited quantities. If he ever visits the FLounge and they have that he would love it (if a flight was delayed and he could sip on that it'd probably be the only time he wouldn't mind a flight delay).

 

[DavidFlynn]

I'm flying out this Saturday on QF1, fingers crossed the Basket Press is on offer

 

[GoldCanyon340]

Am currently supping on a nice Rockford

If it's the Basket Press Shiraz then well done. I've had that a couple of times in SYD F. Mind you, if it was their Cabernet then well done too as that's more than drinkable too.

 

[blackcat20]

The Basket Press? It's a top drop! I've been 'converted' to many wines at the F lounge, sample them there and end up buying a few bottles for the home cellar. Best surprise decant I ever had would have been Penfolds RWT, but it's a tad out of my price range...

The best wine I discovered in the F lounge was Hentley Farm The Beast Shiraz. I think between TomVexille and myself we polished off a couple of bottles...and we now purchase it from the winery to enjoy at home.

 

[DavidFlynn]

Rockford Basket Press Shiraz once again available 'by the ask' this weekend...

 

[Pablo]

Here's hoping the Basket Shiraz is available on Friday!! Will be asking

 

[kermatu]

Caught another early taster of the winter menu in MEL on the weekend. Alongside the fish tagine (already noted up thread) was another Neil Perry loved dishes -- beef braised with Guinness. Initially didn't appeal and went with the Chairman Mao pork, but decided to try (in the interests of this thread). Didn't expect to finish it given I wasn't too hungry, but I polished it off. Was quite tasty with beautifully cooked and tender meat. Nothing flash but a nice comfort dish for winter I reckon.

Unfortunately can't be so complementary about a market inspiration of sake beef. Had a wonderful description but turned out to be, best I could tell, your basic pre-packed deli roast beef with a mustardy sauce. Nothing wrong with it but pretty basic for a F lounge. Was popular but everyone I saw having it looked at it like I did. Hopefully that's not part of the next menu.

 

[DavidFlynn]

The 'beef braised with Guinness' has been on the F menu for at least a month - wasn't introduced when the Autumn menu launched but like the tagine it was a something of a mid-season addition. Sounds like a good 'comfort food' dish to keep on the menu for winter, keen to try it on my next visit!

 

[flychrisfly]

The winter menu had arrived!

 

[flychrisfly]