Qantas Business Class meals & menus

[kermatu]

CNS-BNE 15:10 flight the other day. Two options - braised beef or butter chicken.



Beef was very nice. Tasty, and really tender. I initially feared there was too much mash compared to meat but there was just enough meat for me. And not bad for a 3pm flight.

This was on an Alliance jet and crew. Equipment change and a trainee attendant saw me bumped from 1A. But still very comfortable in 3A. The cabin manager told the trainee to take orders after take-off in a specific way. Mine was taken 2nd. I could see they had 3 of the beef and 6 of the chicken, so I appreciated the opportunity to order early. Also received my drink before the meal (no-one else did).

Good service but was a bit slow and fumbly. But the guy was training, and we had a good chuckle when I had to hand him the foil from my dish and he forgot within 10 seconds what water I wanted, so all good.

 

[RooFlyer]

QF644 PER-SYD Sun 21. Excellent J crew - PDB of Henschke Riesling and lots of top ups thereafter. Lunch in row 1 offered of barramundi, chicken or some healthy salad. The Barra, and nice too

 

[Chrism13]

Wow! An alcoholic PDB on QF domestic. That must be a first.

 

[RooFlyer]

Wow! An alcoholic PDB on QF domestic. That must be a first.

TKWIA

 

[Daver6]

QF644 PER-SYD Sun 21. Excellent J crew - PDB of Henschke Riesling and lots of top ups thereafter. Lunch in row 1 offered of barramundi, chicken or some healthy salad. The Barra, and nice too

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Wait a second. What are you doing in row 1? Get bumped from row 2?

 

[Daver6]

PER-MEL morning departure. Breakfast was a frittata, omelette or muesli. I went to the muesli and MrsDaver6 the omelette. Both happy with the meals.

 

[Daver6]

Delayed 3pm MEL to SYD. Offered this or a Cornish pasty. This was delish washed down with a glass of Semillon

 

[Daver6]

SYD to BNE 5pm dinner service. Butter chicken option. Bread was rock hard. Chicken was decent. Other option was some salad something or other. Henschke Peggy's Hill Riesling to wash it down.

 

[Daver6]

BNE to CNS. Scheduled 8pm departure but an hour late. Dinner service. Black pepper beef. Good flavours. Beef tough as leather. Much prefer the Lindt stick to the ball

 

[servicerequired]

BNE to CNS. Scheduled 8pm departure but an hour late. Dinner service. Black pepper beef. Good flavours. Beef tough as leather. Much prefer the Lindt stick to the ball

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B-O-R-I-N-G

So over this dish in J.

 

[Daver6]

B-O-R-I-N-G

So over this dish in J.

I'm just grateful that after four sectors today there haven't been any repeats.

 

[RooFlyer]

BNE to CNS. Scheduled 8pm departure but an hour late. Dinner service. Black pepper beef. Good flavours.

I had a 7:15pm departure, SYD-HBA almost 2 hrs. I asked at the QP in Sydney what the meal service would be (showing J BP). Answer 'refreshment'.

What we got was a choice of hot meals (AKA 'dinner' in my lexicon), I chose the 'butter chicken' which was not real flash. No drinks, as I was driving at the end.

 

[Blacksheep]

Flew J CHC-MEL a couple of weeks ago, had the lamb shank in a red wine sauce, couldn't finish it (mind you, I am a bit of a snob, I like to bring my own tucker for long haul flights..ie take away roast duck or goose!) Asked for a 2nd glass of champers, and was told they've ran out, The CSM said they only had 2 bottles.
Didn't they use to have Pepe Saya butter in J? First time flying since COVID.
Crew were fantastic but man are they being shafted.

 

[milehighclub]

Didn't they use to have Pepe Saya butter in J?

They still do but only ex Australia

 

[servicerequired]

Every plating in J comes with a Ballantyne butter - but the bread only appears at lunch and dinner.

 

[Daver6]

They still do but only ex Australia

MrsDaver6 was lamenting the lack of Pepe Saya on the flight.

 

[Ade]

MrsDaver6 was lamenting the lack of Pepe Saya on the flight.

Love the Pepe Saya butter … had a few pre-CoVID. Enjoyed them … enjoyed them so much that I thought I’d order it off the QF store …

 

[Princess Fiona]

AKL-SYD. Was offered the beef or the chicken. The beef on the way over was pretty ordinary. Multiple pics of it on here already, it was the one with greens and rice. Had brekkie in the Flounge assuming that it would be better than anything onboard and was correct.

This was described as chicken with mushroom sauce.
It was worse than the beef, pool of water surrounding it. Ate the mashed potato.
I’m also a bit skeptical about these cakes they have with expiry dates a year ahead. Doesn’t give freshly baked vibes to me.

The Ballantyne’s butter is not as good as Pepe Saya but not a deal breaker.

Overall the meal resembles what would have been served in Y a few years back.
Utterly uninspiring.

 

[serfty]

Doesn’t give freshly baked vibes to me.

I think you will find it has been "Freshly Defrosted".

 

[SYD]

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I’m also a bit skeptical about these cakes they have with expiry dates a year ahead. Doesn’t give freshly baked vibes to me.

Not to mention the 25% sugar and 500% of the RDI of salt…

Didn‘t someone recently do an article on why airlines love that stuff? That cake could have been on its fifth turnaround before it got whacked onto your tray. Although, probably more likely down the back and the pay to eat snacks…