Qantas Business Class meals & menus

[Daver6]

This is what's being offered to me flying J/F on AS SEA-ORD in a couple of weeks time. Keeping in mind that in the US entree actually means main

 

[kermatu]

I rarely used the service on QF. Not flown much long haul QF in J in recent pre-pandemic years. NZ flights did not get the service, nor F passengers (Trademark inconsistency). But on the handful I did my recollection is that the crew usually had no idea of what I had pre-booked. Pretty sure I always received what I wanted in the end, but not because of the pre-booking system.

 

[SYD]

I rarely used the service on QF. Not flown much long haul QF in J in recent pre-pandemic years. NZ flights did not get the service, nor F passengers (Trademark inconsistency). But on the handful I did my recollection is that the crew usually had no idea of what I had pre-booked. Pretty sure I always received what I wanted in the end, but not because of the pre-booking system.

I’d make a point of preordering when it was available (especially if there were online only extra options). More often than not it was acknowledged that I’d preordered and I always got what was ordered (apart from once or twice when I changed my mind).

 

[Ade]

QF 62 HND/BNE 14 Jan 23
Duck Soba - soup was clear and duck had a nice lightly spiced flavor.. The green salad looks less offensive as the dressing does not seem to be the sour vinaigrette but did not taste….View attachment 314520

Is that rocket leaves on the duck soba? If so, that is not a great combination. I'd have thought a sprig of coriander would suit well?

 

[Sprucegoose]

Yes AA/UA/DL do pre-ordering to one extent or another. SQ of course has famous BTC and well QF used to for international. Got to wonder why it seems to have gone away - would seem to be the most efficient way to determine catering load and reduce waste if a majority of pax did a meal order. Certainly a way to ensure pax get what they actually might want vs "We're out of X here have the worst option nobody else wanted..."

Yes, I agree with you, RM. Have we thrown the baby out with the bath water?

It's just good business.

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Is that rocket leaves on the duck soba? If so, that is not a great combination. I'd have thought a sprig of coriander would suit well?

My dear man, are you questioning Neil Perry?

 

[LinaLee]

Is that rocket leaves on the duck soba? If so, that is not a great combination. I'd have thought a sprig of coriander would suit well?

No it’s not that would be a fail for me too. It’s some kind of aromatics based on the aroma like a coriander thingy that’s probably Japanese origin cause I’m not familiar with it and also some larger type spring onion shoots.

 

[cpatters]

Does anyone know when the International Business Class menus will change? I'm flying to Jakarta in August & was hoping to see a new menu by then.

 

[Fergo747]

Does anyone know when the International Business Class menus will change? I'm flying to Jakarta in August & was hoping to see a new menu by then.

Probably in another 5-10 years. QF have been peddling the same intl J menu's now for a number of years. Typically a derivative of the following:

Starter
- Soup (carrot, broccoli, cauliflower, sweet corn, etc)
- Salad (prawn, duck, chicken)

Mains
- Sandwich (beef, lamb, chicken)
- Barramundi and veg
- Meat (lamb, chicken, beef) and veg
- Plant based

All served with some lovely NP leaves...

 

[Daver6]

Yesterday SYD-YVR. The gnocchi was ok. The lamb ragu was pretty poor. The lamb was cubes of rubber. All served in a soup bowl. Service exceptionally slow. Took a good 90 minutes post take-off to get a drink. We were delayed on the ground almost an hour. Surely they could have taken orders then.

Crew in general were pretty disinterested. CSM didn't even show her face for most the flight.

 

[Fergo747]

Yesterday SYD-YVR. The gnocchi was ok. The lamb ragu was pretty poor. The lamb was cubes of rubber. All served in a soup bowl. Service exceptionally slow. Took a good 90 minutes post take-off to get a drink. We were delayed on the ground almost an hour. Surely they could have taken orders then.

Crew in general were pretty disinterested. CSM didn't even show her face for most the flight.

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This somewhat proves my generic menu!

 

[OATEK]

Yesterday SYD-YVR. The gnocchi was ok. The lamb ragu was pretty poor. The lamb was cubes of rubber. All served in a soup bowl. Service exceptionally slow. Took a good 90 minutes post take-off to get a drink. We were delayed on the ground almost an hour. Surely they could have taken orders then.

Crew in general were pretty disinterested. CSM didn't even show her face for most the flight.

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Been there, done that!! (too many times)

 

[1022]

QF475 SYD-MEL late last week on a A330 evening flight. Kung Pao chicken was one of the best dom J meals I’ve had in quite a while. The sauce was a bit sweet and sticky compared to the real thing but one expects a general “whitening” of robust dishes for airline food. The bit of bread on the side was half the size of what I recall it used to be though…

The young chap in the seat in front of me seemed to be a bit of an AvGeek from the UK and was delighted with the whole flight. Lie flat on a 1 hour service, good meal (for a change) lovely service from CSM and crew. I didn’t have the heart to tell him he really lucked out compared to many other flights. I must say though I also walked off this flight with a smile on my face. I’ve been dabbling with VA since the recent status match. The fair to middling cheesy tortellini and disinterested service I had on the return MEL-SYD flight a few day later was no match in this instance.

 

[ozflier]

I dread to ask the question re quality of Qantas Alliance E 190 business class meals ( in case they are even worse than mainline ) but how do they compare ?
I've got a return BNE-ADL-BNE coming up and am wondering if I need to fuel up prior to boardings .
(I have been told Neil Perry's green leaf concoctions have not made to Alliance yet so that's something )

 

[sudoer]

I would've expected the catering to come from the same facility that QF mainline uses at BNE?

NP side salads don't exist on short haul domestic business on mainline either

 

[kermatu]

I've done a small number of E-190 flights in the past year - no difference in my observation, regardless of who is crewing the flight (QF or Alliance staff). This thread would suggest the same.

Sadly I've found the BNE J lounge very disappointing for food lately, so not sure fueling up is recommended!

 

[PeterA]

Anyone done DPS to SYD in J very recently, specifically on the A330s? Leaving Bali tomorrow night. Wanted to know if the menu was worth staying awake for or should the wife and I just stretch out .

 

[JohnM]

Last Monday QF770 PER-MEL scheduled departure 1210, but running late.

The pizzas in the PER JLounge appeared at about 1145, so I snared a few slices before boarding, so a plus there.

Massaman curry, chicken salad and something else I've forgotten on offer for lunch. I went the curry. It was actually a lump of beef with a quite tasty curry sauce, not a constructed curry. I ate the meat, sauce, veg and a little of the rice. PJM went the salad, only eating the veg, which she said was hard to pick up with the picnic cutlery.

MEL-PER on Friday was beef ravioli with mushroom sauce, that the CSM said tasted better than it looked. He was only just right. I ate a little more than half, then baled on it. I can't recall the salad option; the other was some pork casserole-type slop that the CSM urged against. PJM passed on the lot.

Still the cheap, low-grade garbage sugary add-ons. Disgusting. When I asked the CSM when cheese might reappear he urged me to write in, as all his entreaties for that fall on deaf ears. He referred to the sugar rubbish and ersatz 'chocolate' as "diabetes material". He was quite clearly fed up with serving this embarrassing stuff.

They were not content with a sugary cake and a cruddy choc-ball, but have now added even more confectionery.

The wastage of stuff being sent back must be incredible.

 

[RooFlyer]

The wastage of stuff being sent back must be incredible.

And yet often you can’t get your first choice because two people have gotten in before you …

Which one was the middle pic? Are those roast chicken pieces? Doesn’t look too bad …

 

[JohnM]

And yet often you can’t get your first choice because two people have gotten in before you …

Which one was the middle pic? Are those roast chicken pieces? Doesn’t look too bad …

It was the chicken salad that PJM had. She's not a vegetarian, but eats almost no meat, so she pushed the chicken aside and ate the salad which she said was quite good.

 

[Daver6]

Last Monday QF770 PER-MEL scheduled departure 1210, but running late.

The pizzas in the PER JLounge appeared at about 1145, so I snared a few slices before boarding, so a plus there.

Massaman curry, chicken salad and something else I've forgotten on offer for lunch. I went the curry. It was actually a lump of beef with a quite tasty curry sauce, not a constructed curry. I ate the meat, sauce, veg and a little of the rice. PJM went the salad, only eating the veg, which she said was hard to pick up with the picnic cutlery.

MEL-PER on Friday was beef ravioli with mushroom sauce, that the CSM said tasted better than it looked. He was only just right. I ate a little more than half, then baled on it. I can't recall the salad option; the other was some pork casserole-type slop that the CSM urged against. PJM passed on the lot.

Still the cheap, low-grade garbage sugary add-ons. Disgusting. When I asked the CSM when cheese might reappear he urged me to write in, as all his entreaties for that fall on deaf ears. He referred to the sugar rubbish and ersatz 'chocolate' as "diabetes material". He was quite clearly fed up with serving this embarrassing stuff.

They were not content with a sugary cake and a cruddy choc-ball, but have now added even more confectionery.

The wastage of stuff being sent back must be incredible.

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That ravioli looks familiar. At least my inedible ravioli was in Y On Wed, PER-SYD.