Turkish Airlines food appreciation thread

[Mattg]

Turkish Airlines has, in my opinion, some of the consistently best on-board catering of any airline. It uses Do&Co as its main caterer, and in all my flights with TK, I can't really recall ever getting a bad meal or being hungry. Even in Y, TK typically provides good quality hot meals and I find flying TK J to be a culinary treat.

In a similar vein to the Singapore Airlines business class meals/menus and Qatar Airways Business/First class meals threads, I invite you to post a photo and brief description of the menu and food/drinks you've been served on Turkish Airlines here. This could be in Economy or Business. Please mention the route you were flying.

 

[Mattg]

This was the business class menu on TK1361, the 9.10pm departure from IST to FCO:




Great meal. For the main I had the spicy chicken makhani. I wish I could have also tried the artichoke pasta, which looked excellent.

 

[Mattg]

This was the business class menu on TK121 from JED to IST, an afternoon flight:



I had the same menu on TLL-IST last year. I suspect this is a standard menu used for the return leg of rotations that are double-catered out of Istanbul.



For the main course I had the manti, which was excellent.



One slightly unusual thing about this flight is that the drinks list on this flight had no alcoholic options. Understandable though, since it was a flight from Saudi Arabia.

 

[Human]

It really is a dilemma when flying out of IST … do you fill yourself up with some of the delicious food in the Lounge, or hold off until the flight?

I do have one question relating to the fact that I’m intending to book a Turkish Airlines flight from IST to CDG (about a 3-hour flight). The airline seems to use a combination of A330s and A320s for this route. Is there any difference in the quality of the catering or should we expect the same quality of the menu regardless of whether we’re on a widebody or narrowbody?

 

[Mattg]

It really is a dilemma when flying out of IST … do you fill yourself up with some of the delicious food in the Lounge, or hold off until the flight?

Yes indeed, the lounge food is really good too in Istanbul!!

I do have one question relating to the fact that I’m intending to book a Turkish Airlines flight from IST to CDG (about a 3-hour flight). The airline seems to use a combination of A330s and A320s for this route. Is there any difference in the quality of the catering or should we expect the same quality of the menu regardless of whether we’re on a widebody or narrowbody?

In my experience it doesn't really make a difference if you're on a narrowbody or widebody. The catering should be the same. In fact, if you're on one of the A330s with a high-density J configuration, the actual seats are pretty similar to the A320. I would still personally take the A330 as there's a bit more room between each row, and it's just a more "fun" experience being on a widebody.

 

[Scarlett]

2019 VNO-IST short haul narrow body. Pretty certain I had the kebab and it was nice.



Then had baklava in the lounge waiting for my onwards connection to BKK via A330.

 

[RooFlyer]

IST-RMO (Chișinău) 90mins 'regional' flight, breakfast in business






The return flight about a week later; mid morning flight but meal labelled as breakfast

 

[ellen10]

Looks good. I will be flying Turkish airlines later this year in J.
I will look forward to sampling some of their menus.

 

[clifford]

While the food on TK is generally fine (and the food and wine in the lounge is better, IMO), one of my gripes with TK is that as a Turkish (Islamic) airline the FA's (male in particular) sometimes have an unspoken disdain to serving alcohol. They will do it, of course, but in their own time with their own attitude and delivering very small serves.

Obviously this is not an issue with most passengers, but I do expect to have a complimentary glass or two with my meal.

Oh, and another gripe is the seating on the 777's. Like who wants to sit in a middle seat in J? (EK Pax excepted).

 

[Mattg]

While the food on TK is generally fine (and the food and wine in the lounge is better, IMO), one of my gripes with TK is that as a Turkish (Islamic) airline the FA's (male in particular) sometimes have an unspoken disdain to serving alcohol. They will do it, of course, but in their own time with their own attitude and delivering very small serves.

Obviously this is not an issue with most passengers, but I do expect to have a complimentary glass or two with my meal.

Oh, and another gripe is the seating on the 777's. Like who wants to sit in a middle seat in J? (EK Pax excepted).

I've never experienced that re. the service of alcohol (on routes that have it, which is most). But totally agree about the 777 J - that middle seat looks awful.