Qantas Business Class meals & menus

[milehighclub]

Does anyone have the SYD-LAX Business menu yet? Jetting off this week and haven't done that leg since last July.

Pumpkin and Ginger Soup (with croutons or creme fraiche)
Salad of buffalo mozzarella with balsamic roasted capsicum, pickled onions and hazelnut vinaigrette
Confit duck and mushroom vol au vent with pickled fennel roast lemon and radicchio salad

Angel hair pasta with broccoli, garlic, pine nuts and chilli
Seared snapper with scallops, roaster kipper potatoes and shellfish sauce
Korean style marinated Bannockburn chicken with asparagus, carrots, sesame and steamed rice
Barrington hinterland beef fillet with roast pumpkin snap peas and wasabi butter

Cheese
Praline Panna cotta with apple jelly caramel and toasted hazel
Ice Cream
Fruit

 

[gdm73]

Pumpkin and Ginger Soup (with croutons or creme fraiche)
Salad of buffalo mozzarella with balsamic roasted capsicum, pickled onions and hazelnut vinaigrette
Confit duck and mushroom vol au vent with pickled fennel roast lemon and radicchio salad

Angel hair pasta with broccoli, garlic, pine nuts and chilli
Seared snapper with scallops, roaster kipper potatoes and shellfish sauce
Korean style marinated Bannockburn chicken with asparagus, carrots, sesame and steamed rice
Barrington hinterland beef fillet with roast pumpkin snap peas and wasabi butter

Cheese
Praline Panna cotta with apple jelly caramel and toasted hazel
Ice Cream
Fruit

Many thanks! Any recommendations?

 

[Sprucegoose]

Garlic bread please- so many airlines do this and just the smell usually makes me salivate in anticipation!

Absolutely. How hard is it, Neil?

My last QF F flight (ex Syd) managed some decent bakery, with 'real' garlic infused into a fantastic four-section soft and tasty bun. I have never had it since, and I shouldn't need to fly F for decent bakery options. The disappointment of not finding the same quality in subsequent QF F flights, which have reverted to the routine tasteless offerings, is palpable.

 

[Sprucegoose]

Pumpkin and Ginger Soup (with croutons or creme fraiche)
Salad of buffalo mozzarella with balsamic roasted capsicum, pickled onions and hazelnut vinaigrette
Confit duck and mushroom vol au vent with pickled fennel roast lemon and radicchio salad

Angel hair pasta with broccoli, garlic, pine nuts and chilli
Seared snapper with scallops, roaster kipper potatoes and shellfish sauce
Korean style marinated Bannockburn chicken with asparagus, carrots, sesame and steamed rice
Barrington hinterland beef fillet with roast pumpkin snap peas and wasabi butter

Cheese
Praline Panna cotta with apple jelly caramel and toasted hazel
Ice Cream
Fruit

Thats not a bad menu.

Vol Au Vent is an offering that always brings back memories of my parents' delightful dinner parties in the 70's. . When prepared properly, it is a true winner.

 

[zig]

Thats not a bad menu.

Vol Au Vent is an offering that always brings back memories of my parents' delightful dinner parties in the 70's. . When prepared properly, it is a true winner.

Somehow I don't think it is likely to be prepared properly on QF.

 

[Sprucegoose]

Somehow I don't think it is likely to be prepared properly on QF.

Let's be honest, we all know you need a proper oven . In that regard, I've always had a bit of trust in QF not to underinvest. But, I must admit, I've been proven wrong before.

I did a lot of SAA flying to JNB, and it wasn't the precursor to Do&Co, but microwaved pies are the memory that sticks with me. Is it unfair? Yes, so can life be!

 

[zig]

Let's be honest, we all know you need a proper oven

Exactly. It continues to confound me why airlines choose to offer meals that can't be ideally replicated by the facilities they have available onboard.

 

[Sprucegoose]

Exactly. It continues to confound me why airlines offer meals that can't be ideally replicated by the facilities they have available onboard.

I agree it can't be that bloody hard. Who works with Boeing and Airbus to do this stuff? I suspect it's available, but budget constraints rule?

 

[Jfaith]

Did you get PJ's?

I asked and got but only because “they had some left”

 

[DejaBrew]

QF30 June 9th.



Smoked tomato soup with basil crème fraiche and roasted almonds. Didn't mind this at all, especially once everything was stirred together.



Pork and roasted apple pithivier with mushy peas and thyme jus. Now I'll be honest here and say that what turned up was completely unexpected, namely because I didn't know what a "pithivier" was? For anyone else who's never heard of this previously, a pithivier is a round, enclosed pie usually made by baking two disks of puff pastry, with a filling stuffed in between. So I guess you could say that this dish does what it says on the box! Tasty enough with generous filling and a good hit of apple.




Passionfruit tart and vanilla cream was a nice finish to the dinner service.



Croque monsieur soldiers with cheddar and potato frittata and roasted tomato and tarragon sauce / croissant / Brookfarm macadamia toasted muesli with cranberries / yoghurt / coffee + OJ. As I said in the HKG Lounge Crawl thread, "Weight Watchers is a 'tomorrow' problem"


Great service from a very friendly crew with whom I'd had the pleasure of flying the day prior on QF29.

 

[frostypanda]

Does anyone know the latest plant based menu for QF 8 (Dallas --> Syd) .

 

[DejaBrew]

Does anyone know the latest plant based menu for QF 8 (Dallas --> Syd) .

Someone else will be able to answer the question, but just wanted to say a warm welcome aboard AFF @frostypanda

 

[anat0l]

Garlic bread please- so many airlines do this and just the smell usually makes me salivate in anticipation!

I honestly have not had a good onboard garlic bread in ages, and I've tried some of "the best", such as SQ.

Smells great, but taste wise... the bread tastes fake (OK, they use white bread), there's not enough garlic and/or parsley (so it's basically buttered bread), it is very soft and/or it's soaking all the way through (what's the point of garlic bread if there's no crunch or texture). Plus, garlic bread often isn't great if you want to mop up your plate.

One garlic bread I ate was salty as sea water... that was ridiculous, and probably done to mask the paltry garlic flavour.

I've given up on garlic bread onboard.

TG F's roasted garlic is a better idea if you want "garlic bread".

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

PUMPKIN!

I'm flying SYD-PER-MEL tomorrow and am now taking bets on how many options make it to Row 4 that do not include pumpkin.

Update: there will be no update. Qantas cancelled QF 774 from PER-MEL at 5am this morning, so my little joyride around the country to get from SYD-MEL on the A330 is off.

The real question should have been, what is more likely? Pumpkin or a “we’re sorry, we’ve had to cancel your flight” email from Qantas?

 

[Berlin]

I honestly have not had a good onboard garlic bread in ages, and I've tried some of "the best", such as SQ.

Smells great, but taste wise... the bread tastes fake (OK, they use white bread), there's not enough garlic and/or parsley (so it's basically buttered bread), it is very soft and/or it's soaking all the way through (what's the point of garlic bread if there's no crunch or texture). Plus, garlic bread often isn't great if you want to mop up your plate.

One garlic bread I ate was salty as sea water... that was ridiculous, and probably done to mask the paltry garlic flavour.

I've given up on garlic bread onboard.

TG F's roasted garlic is a better idea if you want "garlic bread".

Some are bad, that’s true, especially on SQ they aren’t the best. NZ does a really good one, unless they leave it in the oven too long. Had tasty ones on Middle Eastern airlines in the past as well.

Key is, have some variety. Garlic bread, some white buns, something crunchy with lots of grain and corn and maybe a Pretzel bun or Grissini sticks. So many airlines do this way better than Qantas, I think we can all agree on that.

 

[sudoer]

I've had pretty good garlic bread on MH previously.

In my opinion the sourdough and butter is one of the better aspects of Qantas meal service though - especially since switching to Pepe Saya. Not because it's going to blow any minds, but because it's consistently not terrible.

There are plenty of other meal service elements I would prefer QF improves first (NP bowl of leaves, beverage menu, increase the frequency of menu changes, remove the terribly executed Asian fusion dishes, bring back Menu Select, etc) before changing the bread & butter.

 

[Berlin]

I've had pretty good garlic bread on MH previously.

In my opinion the sourdough and butter is one of the better aspects of Qantas meal service though - especially since switching to Pepe Saya. Not because it's going to blow any minds, but because it's consistently not terrible.

There are plenty of other meal service elements I would prefer QF improves first (NP bowl of leaves, beverage menu, increase the frequency of menu changes, remove the terribly executed Asian fusion dishes, bring back Menu Select, etc) before changing the bread & butter.

Fair enough, the Pepe Saya is a favourite of mine as well. It just gets boring to always get the same kind of sauerdough bread.

 

[hutch]

I've had pretty good garlic bread on MH previously.

In my opinion the sourdough and butter is one of the better aspects of Qantas meal service though - especially since switching to Pepe Saya. Not because it's going to blow any minds, but because it's consistently not terrible.

There are plenty of other meal service elements I would prefer QF improves first (NP bowl of leaves, beverage menu, increase the frequency of menu changes, remove the terribly executed Asian fusion dishes, bring back Menu Select, etc) before changing the bread & butter.

The bread and butter is one area of QF's dinning I wouldn't touch.

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Fair enough, the Pepe Saya is a favourite of mine as well. It just gets boring to always get the same kind of sauerdough bread.

Be careful what you wish for. They may start making their bread with ingredients in season...

 

[Berlin]

Be careful what you wish for. They may start making their bread with ingredients in season...

Oh god no- why did you have to say that, I will have nightmares of PUMPKIN BREAD now!

 

[Daver6]

I've had pretty good garlic bread on MH previously.

In my opinion the sourdough and butter is one of the better aspects of Qantas meal service though - especially since switching to Pepe Saya. Not because it's going to blow any minds, but because it's consistently not terrible.

There are plenty of other meal service elements I would prefer QF improves first (NP bowl of leaves, beverage menu, increase the frequency of menu changes, remove the terribly executed Asian fusion dishes, bring back Menu Select, etc) before changing the bread & butter.

I agree with you but not in a positive sense. It just shows how poor QF J meals are that a piece of bread and some butter is one of the better aspects of the meal service.

I recall around 2017/2018 QF used to serve a piece of garlic bread with the meal (international) in Y. Was delicious!