Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

[Milefest]

Some more meals from some recent J flights:

 

[AloeYJ]

VA868 SYD-MEL 28th December 2018 17:29 departure
Beef with coughin pide, flavours just nice and fresh greens.
Other option is buffalo cheese salad.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Meals & menus from VA686 on 31 December. Lovely way to finish the year really

 

[sven89]

Port Vila to Brisbane.

Pre-departure beverages offered. And top-up with warm nuts served as soon as we were airborne.
Unfortunately, delayed flight meant many onboard were going to miss their onward connections that night, so J-service was sacrificed as soon as the meals were delivered as the CS was busy trying to calm and placate some rather angry passengers.

Same meal as @jase05 and @Pleb Status had domestically (spiced lamb shepherd's pie), although personally I think slightly better presented (less watery).
I quite liked it.

Cold option was Thai beef salad, which nobody in the cabin (5 of 8) chose.
The festive cookie was a nice touch. Wasn't too much of a fan of the passion fruit mousse dessert texturally.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Snack VA985 to Brisbane

Lamb pie with peas and a salad with nuts.


Pretty good,

 

[Ausbt]

Anyone with an opinion? Just flew a domestic J sector and cabin manager advised catering is “a mix of this and that”, apologised and advised he would be reporting it and we should think about seeking compo. I ended up with a lovely beetroot fetta pumpkin salad with balance of items appearing as they should. I can’t see any issue at all nor need for compo, but ...he again made mention of reporting it at disembarkation. So, a request to the Platinum line for 5K points?

 

[jase05]

Breakfast on VA204 ADL-MEL this morning was the “Breakfast Plate”.
Pork and Fennel sausages, grilled haloumi, Sweet potato mash, kale, mushrooms and quinoa. Very good dish IMO and the sausages especially were very good and packed with flavour. Accompanied with granola with milk and a choice of a croissant or warm roll with honey or vegemite.
Pretty well put together meal IMO and was offered the same on VA733 MEL-OOL a few hours later

 

[kermatu]

Anyone with an opinion? Just flew a domestic J sector and cabin manager advised catering is “a mix of this and that”, apologised and advised he would be reporting it and we should think about seeking compo. I ended up with a lovely beetroot fetta pumpkin salad with balance of items appearing as they should. I can’t see any issue at all nor need for compo, but ...he again made mention of reporting it at disembarkation. So, a request to the Platinum line for 5K points?

Absolutely. Did you get a choice of meal or just provided the salad?

 

[Ausbt]

Absolutely. Did you get a choice of meal or just provided the salad?

I got a full meal and look I can’t complain, I think it was good. This is purely a try-on prompted by the CSA advising all pax in J to feel free to complain about ‘lack of choice’. I’m actually not choosy, I’ll eat anything. Maybe I’ll just ask for 5K points but look really I won’t upset if they ignore me.

 

[kermatu]

I got a full meal and look I can’t complain, I think it was good. This is purely a try-on prompted by the CSA advising all pax in J to feel free to complain about ‘lack of choice’. I’m actually not choosy, I’ll eat anything. Maybe I’ll just ask for 5K points but look really I won’t upset if they ignore me.

Understood it was a full serve / meal -- just wasn't sure the issue was lack of choice. Seems that it was. I still say put in and see.

 

[clipped_wings]

Always get an amazing meal when a VIP is on board even if they are a prick.

er, haymish..............................are you the prick?

 

[kermatu]

This was the J meal on a CHC-MEL flight earlier this month:



Ling on a pumpkin puree with vegetables. Tasty but small serve. Other choice was a chickpea salad which could have chicken added.

Very disappointed overall. No starter or salad, dessert was the little cake in the cellophane wrapper and there was one piece of cheese on the plate with crackers at the back. Bread roll was nice.

No menu provided. Minimal explanation of the wines on offer.

PDB was a bottle of water - pathetic. Pre-lunch drink was provided but no offer of nuts or olives (someone did ask for them and was provided with much eye-rolling from the CSM). Nobody else was offered.

Underwhelming.

 

[serfty]

Underwhelming.

someone did ask for them and was provided with much eye-rolling from the CSM

That certainly is not reflective of what is advertised. I suspect the menu was hidden - maybe the FA was feeling lazy.

 

[blackcat20]

This was the J meal on a CHC-MEL flight earlier this month:

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Ling on a pumpkin puree with vegetables. Tasty but small serve. Other choice was a chickpea salad which could have chicken added.

Very disappointed overall. No starter or salad, dessert was the little cake in the cellophane wrapper and there was one piece of cheese on the plate with crackers at the back. Bread roll was nice.

No menu provided. Minimal explanation of the wines on offer.

PDB was a bottle of water - pathetic. Pre-lunch drink was provided but no offer of nuts or olives (someone did ask for them and was provided with much eye-rolling from the CSM). Nobody else was offered.

Underwhelming.

Wonder if its the same FA we had CHC-MEL; she spent a lot of time in the jump seat with her eyes closed.

 

[kermatu]

No, our CSM was a bloke. He wasn't lazy. But seemed to do the minimum and wanted to be efficient. He did loosen up a bit later, with a couple of wine refill offers then more drinks or coffees, without fuss. But I thought it was poor not to offer snacks to everyone - both pre-lunch and say an hour before landing.

He and the other FA (who attended to us after Y) didn't sit down for more than maybe 10 minutes each through the flight -- just enough time to eat really. Kept the curtain open too so were always eye-catch-able.

 

[kermatu]

Fortunately a proper menu was handed out on my MEL-PER Business leg:

 

[kermatu]

And the food:



PDB offered, including sparkling wine. Drink plus snacks order taken pre-departure (no trouble asking for olives and nuts). Meal and wine order taken too.

I thought the wine list was impressive. Turned out it was an error - this was an international menu by mistake. Actually only two reds and two whites onboard. I had asked for one of the absent reds. Within a minute Chris (my terrific FA) realised the error and came back to apologise and seek an alternative.

 

[kermatu]

Olives were great - though not quite as amazing as the chilli and garlic olives in the MEL QF F Lounge.



Salmon starter was delicious. Great rice and avocado underneath. Very nice.

 

[kermatu]

Barramundi was tasty but not the best piece of fish. And could have done with more spinach and some grain/pulse/pasta.



Cheese excellent.



Service was superb. Very enjoyable flight. Seat not quite as spacious or private as QFs, but the IFE has music -- so winner.

 

[blackcat20]

VA dont do champagne on the transcon any more?