Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

[Jousams]

The snacks have changed, but still same sort of quantity which had already increased. Bakery item, snack item and a dessert, so for instance an afternoon snack MEL to BNE is bakery item plus harissa chicken salad with fatoush or buffalo mozarella panini, plus orange almond cake. That seems fairly substantial for a snack service.

Is the ex QLD EST/EDT changeover still shambles?
For example leaving QLD at 11 arriving in Melbourne at 2 and getting a morning snack doesn't seam right.

 

[bullerdude]

Cool - new snacks that include are few things are better then nothing.

Does anyone if the time for breakfast and dinner have changed? Is it still 7-9am and 6pm onwards?

 

[KCMil]

First flight to 0829 for breakfast. 0830 to 1159 for AM snack. 1200 to 1359 for Lunch. 1400 to 1629 for PM snack. 1630 to last flight for dinner.

 

[TSOOBI]

Flew OOL-MEL this afternoon in J. Snack menu

Choices were chicken salad with orange cake
Prawn Ricepaper rolls with fudge ice cream - Actually pretty good
Cheese Platter with fudge ice cream

Cheers Nath

 

[TSOOBI]

First flight to 0829 for breakfast. 0830 to 1159 for AM snack. 1200 to 1359 for Lunch. 1400 to 1629 for PM snack. 1630 to last flight for dinner.

1645pm OOL - MEL tonight was snack menu in J

 

[Plutonus]

Is there a real dessert for dinners now, or still the chocolate covered nuts?

 

[lovestotravel]

1645pm OOL - MEL tonight was snack menu in J

I was hoping they might have changed that, a 2005 arrival into MEL should be dinner!

 

[robbie1984]

Is there a real dessert for dinners now, or still the chocolate covered nuts?

Appears to still be the chocolate nuts except for flights over 3 hours, in which case it's a mini tub of Serendipity ice-cream.()

 

[bullerdude]

AM Snack service on my MEL-BNE this morning.

The service was quite good and what I expect from VA - Polite CSM, offered choice of snack, multiple drink refills, offer for galaxy tab, paper provided, offer for anything from the economy menu later in the flight.

The meal itself was much better then past snack services - decent fruit, muffin heated and a pesto sandwich that actually tasted pretty good.

Only annoying thing is that the mocktail is not loaded before lunch flights - this disappoints me as it a drink I would like on morning flights.

 

[MarkD]

Booked a last minute CNS-BNE Yesterday, I refuse to fly JQ, so VA was only real option at the time I wanted. grabbed a Business Saver fare, as there was only $100 difference between available Y and J.
Pleased I did, 9.30am flight, Full Hot meal service (Some Tomato/Chicken/CousCous thing which was really quite tasty) a citrus tart which again, was nice, heated bread roll, and EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE. The hostie I had, (Melita) was very eficient, always called Mr MarkD, was offered OJ or water pre takeoff, offered another once finished that, given a newspaper, offered choices for meal. Drinks were topped up as required. The service was brilliant, everything was there if required, but not in your face. Very enjoyable flight. Just a hint though, if in a -700, 1EF has miles more legroom than 1AB.

 

[serfty]

Know what you mean about the leg room.

Interestingly, this was a lunch flight and when I requested red wine with my meal, the FA had to call the back galley and ask for the bottle to be brought up as "there's not enough room" in the forward galley on the 73G to store both the white and the red.

 

[jazza1971]

AM Snack ADL - MEL Some hot frittata and a raspberry muffin, 1/8 in J

Lunch MEL - BNE A lamb curry so I was told, with a tasty Vodka Mocktail, 6/8 in J.

PM Snack BNE - TVL Asian Cold Lamb Salad, was actually better then I thought it would be, 3/8 in J.

Service good across all flights, had the same crew all the way through from Melbourne to Townsville and the CS Ally was really good!

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Mike Gore.........Keith Williams...........

Hang on sefty...........you're too late! the Joh for PM campaign has finished..........

Oh sorry, they're runners, my mistake!

 

[bullerdude]

PM Snack on BNE-MEL this afternoon - finally the cheese plate meal has been improved such that it now served with a warm roll and a desert.

I do think it should have an extra piece of cheese, but I have to say all was quite good and the service was excellent.

 

[Princess Fiona]

PM Snack on BNE-MEL this afternoon - finally the cheese plate meal has been improved such that it now served with a warm roll and a desert.

I do think it should have an extra piece of cheese, but I have to say all was quite good and the service was excellent.

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I think the cheese plate should be allowed to retire with dignity

 

[BrentH]

I think the cheese plate should be allowed to retire with dignity

Agreed.

Seats 2D+F on a 73H are the cheese plate seats.

If you have one of those seats, you can bet the J meal selection is between "cheese plate" and "cheese plate". :\

 

[jazza1971]

Two more new meals I think

Lunch TVL - SYD Beef short ribs with mashed potato, onion and tarragon (from memory), quite tasty with the Cabsavmerlot 5/8 in J.

Dinner SYD - ADL Chicken with tomato and saffron with Israeli Couscous washed down with a JB & coke. Still think its a bit of a let down, chocolates for dessert....rather lose the 'loosely' called salad, 3/8 in J.

 

[RWJ777]

1645pm OOL - MEL tonight was snack menu in J

That's a long flight for a snack. Bet you weren't charged a snack price.

 

[robbie1984]

First J flight since the new menu rollout. Lunch time flight B738 SYD-MEL 13:00 departure. Basque style saffron and tomato chicken with Israeli couscous with iced carrot cake for dessert and the standard bread roll and dressed salad. The flavour was great, tender chicken and perfectly cooked couscous. Load was 7/8, seems VA now offer Platinum shadows as the only spare seat was next to me.

 

[robbie1984]

Latest J class trip from the weekend. MEL-PER A330 17:30 departure. The pre-departure sparkles were served nice and cold and was replenished during boarding. Today's load was light with only 3 other pax. Being on VH-XFD with the new J class I couldn't see the other pax so felt very private. Menu and Wine guide were delivered with the amenity pack promptly after my drink was delivered.

Starter was the Harissa spiced chicken fattoush salad and lemon sumac dressing. This was great! I could have eaten another. The chicken was moist and salad fresh. The other option was Sweet corn, coconut and ginger soup.

For mains there was a choice of Saffron and tomato chicken with green olives, peas and cous cous or ocean trout, cauliflower puree, zucchini, lemon and anchovy butter or massaman curry of pumpkin, potato, zucchini, beans and jasmine rice.

I chose the saffron chicken, I had already tried this on a previous flight and was really good so it was the most appealing to me. It varied slightly on the A330 compared with the B737 service, it felt slightly more refined and the individual components looked like they had been plated separately onboard.

Lastly for dessert there was the choice of the cheese plate or a Cherry and apple crumble with vanilla custard. Due to the light loads i was offered both the cheese and crumble. I'm not a bit fan of berry type desserts as i hate the little seeds you often get. For this reason I didn't really enjoy it however the rest of it was nice. I would have preferred the dessert from the previous menu which was lycée and pineapple custard type thing.

Overall the menu was great, the food was fresh and tasty, well presented and left me full. The cabin crew were very attentive and genuinely were happy to help and it reminds me why I fly Virgin.

I did the PER-SYD yesterday however didn't manage any photos as it was almost a full J and always feels weird taking photos of food haha. I thought the service would drop being almost a full cabin but they crew were efficient, friendly and delivered as if I was the only passenger on the flight.For those interested the menu I chose was the Smoked trout with horseradish and dill potato and salmon caviar for starters, then for main i chose the braised beef with pumpkin puree. snow peas, baby turnips, and soy beans and dessert was not the menu item but a passionfruit and lemon finger slice. Even with the full cabin I was the cheese plate as well.