Qantas Business Class meals & menus

[RealtimeY]

before changing the bread & butter.

Careful, don't give them ideas

 

[Peso]

QF604 MEL-BNE 8/6

No PDBs. The INOP seat was a disappointing realisation after takeoff, given my desire to nap a little on this 7AM flight. Choice was either scrambled eggs or fruit salad. Eggs were decent, though I did load up on a toastie and breakfast burrito in lounge.



FWIW the FA was apologetic and offered 2,000 points and a bottle of sav blanc to take home due to the seat. Interesting to see a "Property of QANTAS" sticker on the bottle. Escalated to customer care team today and argued my way to a 10,000 point compensation. Was seeking in the 19k point range, but a lot better than the 2k initial.

 

[hutch]

QF604 MEL-BNE 8/6

No PDBs. The INOP seat was a disappointing realisation after takeoff, given my desire to nap a little on this 7AM flight. Choice was either scrambled eggs or fruit salad. Eggs were decent, though I did load up on a toastie and breakfast burrito in lounge.

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FWIW the FA was apologetic and offered 2,000 points and a bottle of sav blanc to take home due to the seat. Interesting to see a "Property of QANTAS" sticker on the bottle. Escalated to customer care team today and argued my way to a 10,000 point compensation. Was seeking in the 19k point range, but a lot better than the 2k initial.

Silly you need to argue your way to still fairly stingy compensation.

 

[Lynda2475]

Qf104 HNL-SYD

The lunch menu


Chicken skweres with the pineapple were tasty enough but the curry cabbage was odd so went uneaten.



Steak was tasty, I really liked the potato gratin, beans needed butter.



The dessert was more like a mousse than an actual panacotta.

The dinner menu


The fish burger was really really good


As was the apple tart although they had run out of the vanilla icecream (and I was row 1) and no tart left for row 2.


It may have been a case of the crew in the back business section serving must faster.

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

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?

Additional follow-up: my nonstop replacement flight to MEL in Y has also been cancelled. The pumpkin fritters may yet live to see another flight if one of them happens to get off the ground.

This is what I get for cheating on VA.

 

[Berlin]

I love how it’s not any salted nuts but “Premium Australian salted nuts”.

Wow- Australian even! I wonder what this actually means- Woolies Essentials bulk buy?

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

Ah, all is well in the world. Cancelled flights, pumpkin soup for @Berlin , and a “bread” brick that I think might be hardtack.

It’s sure been a minute, Qantas. I see you’ve been well.

 

[Flyfrequently]

Many thanks! Any recommendations?

It's a slightly expanded menu from QF43 last week @gdm73

Dare I say Pumpkin soup with Creme fraiche was good
Beef was quite dry
And had an ice cream sandwich for dessert.

 

[Flyfrequently]

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

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

Same menu as QF43 last week @milehighclub albeit slimmed down

No confit duck vo au vent
No Korean chicken
And snapper was red curry

 

[Lynda2475]

I love how it’s not any salted nuts but “Premium Australian salted nuts”.

Wow- Australian even! I wonder what this actually means- Woolies Essentials bulk buy?

Well they were just salted almonds on my flight yesterday. Would have preferred some of those Hawaiian grown macadamias myself.

 

[RealtimeY]

That reminds me of how they replaced the Mainland cheese and crackers in Y with "Real" cheese and crackers.

 

[RooFlyer]

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.

Yet what they served was a 'pie 'n sauce'. And with parsley and fennel, rather than thyme?




These are pithivers. I've mentioned before about the pretentious labels used by QF/Perry.

QF30 June 9th.

QF128, (HKG-SYD) also on the 9th was exactly the same (as the menu says)

As I said in the HKG Lounge Crawl thread, "Weight Watchers is a 'tomorrow' problem"

Unfortunately weight-watchers is a daily issue for me, so I just had the tomato soup; asked for the creme fraishe version, but got the weed-based one (no problem there) The bowl of weeds went undisturbed



Oh, I confess, I had the tart as well (and a sticky)

 

[bethyld]

QF12 LAX-SYD
11/6/24

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QF12 LAX-SYD
11/6/24
Brekkie

 

[DejaBrew]

Yet what they served was a 'pie 'n sauce'. And with parsley and fennel, rather than thyme?

Well, it was a thyme jus, so the rest was just garnish. As for pie vs pithivier? Well… perhaps the more appropriate spelling would have been “pie-thivier”. Either way, there were two pieces of pastry with a filling in the middle and it was tasty

 

[jukebox333]

Well, it was a thyme jus, so the rest was just garnish. As for pie vs pithivier? Well… perhaps the more appropriate spelling would have been “pie-thivier”. Either way, there were two pieces of pastry with a filling in the middle and it was tasty

Perhaps they plated it upside down?

 

[NSun]

QF164 WLG-SYD last Saturday (June 8). Only 5 other passengers in the cabin. There were 3 options and I took the ravioli and ordered a gin and tonic as a drink. Pasta is a dish difficult to screw up, but difficult to wow and that's how I found it - it was more than sufficient.

I ended up having a microsleep and my plate was put down while I was in that state because from my point of view, the plate just magically appeared in front of me. Not sure if the crew didn't notice and put it down anyway or bet that I was only having a 'microsleep' and that I wouldn't be asleep for long.

 

[anat0l]

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.

I wonder why QF doesn't do a large variety of bread. Now don't say cost cutting - some of those bread types are cheaper to cook or source compared to sourdough. (I doubt QF or its catering contractors bake its own bread... they should...)

Don't get me wrong - I love sourdough - it's that wonderful fermented taste - though sometimes they get it wrong on the crust so it's as tough as leather, and it's not so great when the bread is cold (would it kill QF to ensure the bread is always warm).

Bread selection has varied when I'm on QF flights. Most international flights offer white or wholegrain sourdough, or sometimes the addition of seeded sourdough. One QF flight added the option of foccacia. Many domestic flights have only one type of sourdough. Breakfast and morning refreshment flights sometimes have sourdough and danishes (but you wouldn't butter your danish or use it to mop up your main meal). It may not be 6-8 types of bread, but I'm content enough, especially when the butter is so good.

 

[Berlin]

I wonder why QF doesn't do a large variety of bread. Now don't say cost cutting - some of those bread types are cheaper to cook or source compared to sourdough. (I doubt QF or its catering contractors bake its own bread... they should...)

Don't get me wrong - I love sourdough - it's that wonderful fermented taste - though sometimes they get it wrong on the crust so it's as tough as leather, and it's not so great when the bread is cold (would it kill QF to ensure the bread is always warm).

Bread selection has varied when I'm on QF flights. Most international flights offer white or wholegrain sourdough, or sometimes the addition of seeded sourdough. One QF flight added the option of foccacia. Many domestic flights have only one type of sourdough. Breakfast and morning refreshment flights sometimes have sourdough and danishes (but you wouldn't butter your danish or use it to mop up your main meal). It may not be 6-8 types of bread, but I'm content enough, especially when the butter is so good.

You know- as long as there’s at least a seeded option too, then I’m quite happy. The so-called “foccacia“ I’ve found to be reliably awful (always cooked too long and hard on the sides).

Admittedly, a minor complaint. Many more other things to fix first.

 

[encryptededdy]

The Beef option on last night's QF163 SYD-WLG. This was a comp'd (free) upgrade from Sale Economy - first time that's happened to me (although I understand it's been happening a lot to WPs and P1s over the past month or two).

 

[fafnersbane]

QF497 SYD>MEL (21:00)
Supper service options:

• Potato & Leek soup
• Ploughman's platter
• Wagyu beef pie (pictured)

QF474 MEL>SYD (17:30)
Dinner service options:

• Chicken cesar salad
• Pork noodles (pictured)