Soxfan From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 841 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 7 months 1 week 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 4141 times:
What are the best meals you have had in airline lounges or in flight, and on what airlines? "Best" can be subjective, referring to taste, presentation, portion, etc.
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RoseFlyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 7612 posts, RR: 51 Reply 1, posted (1 year 7 months 1 week 2 days ago) and read 4132 times:
Best Lounge
Best lounge for me is a tie between BA in T5 and Asiana in ICN. Loved both. Great selections of food and drinks. Asiana in ICN had the best staff of any lounge I have ever used. Great food offerings at both. I love that BA will serve you a meal in a dining room or have a real sized buffet.
Best Meal
Best meal on board might surprise some, but it was UA on SEA-NRT in First Class. Full meal with the best soup I have ever had (smokey tomato bisque) and the best steak I have ever had on a plane. They got the filet just perfect. Also the wine pairing (a Meritage) matched my pallet very well.
While I am at it, here are the worst:
Worst Lounge
UA SEA Red Carpet Club is worst. Sure they use to have a first class side (now gone), the food is nothing other than carrots, celery, pretzels and cheese. The lounge is underground with no windows. The bar is small and limited and once I went there, the bar was banned from serving alcohol due to a bust by the state of Washington.
The second is the lounge that LH used for first class passengers in DEL (2000). It was gross. The seats were soiled and there was almost no food or drink offerings. The whole place smelled bad.
Worst meal
BA 2nd snack meal in J. They had a crayfish sandwich on stale sliced white bread in plastic wrap. They gave the exact meal on LHR-BLR as they did on LHR-SEA which I flew the next week. Yuck, I would not eat that even in economy.
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CoachClass From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 249 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (1 year 7 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 4100 times:
I don't know if it was the very best, although it was very tasty, was breakfast on a 4 prop Loftleidir from LUX to REK to NYC in 1969. It was a fish fillet on top of an omelette. I should not have been surprised that fish would appear as when we disembarked in snowy REK early in the morning from LUX, we were hit by the fish smell as it seemed that the airport was near the fishing docks.
DeltAirlines From United States of America, joined May 1999, 8545 posts, RR: 15 Reply 3, posted (1 year 7 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 4098 times:
As someone that does domestic flying 99% of the time, my stuff pales in comparison to some of the international carriers:
Best meal:
- Lobster on a Continental DC-10 on EWR-MCO back in the mid-1990s. Absolutely great meal service throughout. Though I had a pretty good steak on Delta in BusinessElite last month, complete with an ice cream sundae.
Worst meal:
- Too many. International coach meals are pretty putrid (though I've had decent chicken on BA in Y a decade ago). In first though, it's a tossup between some of the bad sandwiches United and Delta love to cater.
Best lounge:
- Tough, but I'm going to go with the Oasis at JFK. Self serve beer (including Red Stripe and Kingfisher), hot hors d'oevres that are pretty good, great newspaper selection, showers, great view of T4.
Worst lounge:
- Delta Atlanta B10 SkyClub - way too small and cramped; it's a glorified gate. (SEA RCC is bad, but at least there's room to find a seat. ATL B10...good luck).
JetBlue777 From Philippines, joined Jul 2009, 1364 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (1 year 7 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 4087 times:
Best Meal - OZ's Steak on the JFK-ICN route and it was Y class.
Wonderful presentation, nice portions and it was served in real cutlery.
Worst Meal - Not really bad, but the worst I had was EK's Potato with Lamb or something like that, made me sick. (AUH-JFK) But the taste wasn't bad it's just I dont like lamb.
workwings From United States of America, joined May 2010, 48 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (1 year 7 months 1 week 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 4008 times:
In my experience the best lounge by far is the Emirates Business lounge in Dubai. It is enormous -- a couple of city blocks long at least, covering much of one floor above the main terminal floor, to which you can look. Full of light, except for the darker areas meant for sleeping on nice lounge chairs. Places to sit with groups, places to sit with a travelling companion, places to sit by yourself. Food: Middle Eastern food, western food, grilled food with the chefs right in front of you grilling it. Fruit. Vegetables raw and cooked. Coffee, cappuccino, tea, soft drinks. Wine, hard drinks. Several restaurant areas. Breakfast lunch or dinner all day long. Showers and a spa. Computers and places to plug your own everywhere. Areas for children to play and large consoles with electronic games. It is much more like a large club in which you can easily spend several hours comfortably. It actually is somewhere to visit and to not regret a connection in Dubai, and no I have no relationship to EK and actually prefer EY seats and service.
As far as meals go, none really stand out and they are mostly in a muddle after 30+ years of flying for my job. I do remember the jar of caviar the one time I flew Concorde, JFK to LHR, which I thought was excessive. Other passengers were asking for seconds. The rest of the meal was unmemorable (but not the flight!)
RoseFlyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 7612 posts, RR: 51 Reply 6, posted (1 year 7 months 1 week 1 hour ago) and read 3930 times:
Speaking of economy, the worst meal I ever had was on Malaysia Airways KUL-NRT earlier this year on a 777. It was a redeye flight and I skipped the dinner. The breakfast tasted like curried sardines. It is probably more due to my western pallet than anything else, but I almost threw up on the spot because of the breakfast consisting of eating putrid smelling, salty, spicy, fish curry. I had one bite and could not get rid of the taste for the rest of the flight. A piece of bread and two cups of coffee helped easy that pain on my taste buds. However with that said, I am sure there were plenty of people who loved it. Getting two hot meals on an overnight flight that is only 6 hours is quite generous.
My best economy meal was on Jet Airways BLR - DEL. Great non-veg curry. Filling and served with tasty rice.
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UltimateDelta From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1966 posts, RR: 7 Reply 8, posted (1 year 7 months 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 3920 times:
Best Meal:
Midwest Express, sometime around 2000-ish: Grilled beef in mushroom sauce . And of course, the chocolate-chip cookies after
Worst:
Can't think of anything. I've never had food that was truly awful, just boring/unimaginative (like those sandwiches)
RamblinMan From United States of America, joined Oct 2010, 1026 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (1 year 7 months 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 3915 times:
Best Y-class meal ever for me was the seafood entree on KE flying ICN-KUL. The bibimbap on ICN-ATL was also delicious, but I needed more hot sauce.
ChopChop767 From Italy, joined Aug 2010, 203 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (1 year 6 months 3 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 3590 times:
For lounges, JAL's Sakura lounge at NRT is amazing. Terrific meal offers, both hot and cold, superb business center, self serve bar, smoking area(for those so inclined), comfortable and private sleeping chaise chars, shower and spa facilities and wonderful views. I had a six hour lay over there to get to SFO and it was wonderful!
Best meal, hmmm, I'll have to give that some thought.
delawareusa From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 84 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (1 year 6 months 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 3518 times:
Best coach Thai on the Bancock express JFK to BKK, all meals both ways..Very good.
Worst Coach long distance, US airways to Europe.
Biz: Best Singapore, Lufthansa also gets honorable mention.
agrflyer From Switzerland, joined Nov 2005, 118 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (1 year 6 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 3508 times:
Best food I had in C-class was on NZ flying from LHR to HKG. New Zealand Lamb, It was delicious. Best food in Y was on MH flying from DXB to KUL in the early 90's. I like the BD lounge at LHR and SQ lounge in SIN.
The star gold lounge at my home airport ZRH is defenitly not on top of the ranking. Maybe I used the lounge too many times. It also can get crowed in the early evening.
next flights: ZRH-LIS-ZRH (LX in C) in May, ZRH-ARN-ORD-SFO/PDX-ORD-ARN-ZRH (LX, SK, UA in C/F) in Oct.
musang From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2001, 686 posts, RR: 8 Reply 15, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 3388 times:
A couple of memorable eats in Y over the years spring to mind -
Thai A300 SIN - BKK in 1978 - fairly conventional western b'fast, but delicious.
Strawberries on a Frontier 737 Oakland to Denver.
Choc Ice Cream in a big round glass on Delta domestic in the mid '80s (actually that was in first).
A splendid bowl of tomato/vegetable soup on American, I think it was on a MD-80 or a F100 out of DFW. (That could have been first also).
I can't remember much in First that I've been unhappy with - I'm just pleased to be there - but on BA LHR - NRT we were served small spicy bits of beautiful steak on a little heated slate slab, as a starter. I could have just kept eating those..
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