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OUTBOUND

Starters
Poached flaked salmon salad with avocado, feta cheese, pea shoots and fresh mint with a lemon vinaigrette dressing
Virgin mary soup – with optional vodka shot

Main Courses
Lavender and garlic infused lamb with crushed minted new potatoes, green beans, buttered carrots and thyme gravy
Braised flaked ham hock on summer vegetable consomme topped with Y Fenni cheese
Chickpea, chilli and coriander cakes with cumin roasted sweet potatoes, sunblush tomatoes and onion raita

Bread
Roasted red pepper, sesame and poppy seed with olive oil, extra virgin olive oil and basil

Light Bites (VS 7, 17, 19, 23, 43 only)
Red Leicester and tomato focaccia
Chicken tikka masala with steamed rice and pitta bread
Mackerel fillets with red chard and gooseberry coulis

Desserts
Clotted cream cheesecake with strawberry compote
Summer berry pudding with chopped pistachio nuts

Cheese
Garstang Blue
Denhay cheddar
Cornish camembert

Afternoon Tea (Not VS 17)
Selection of sandwiches - tandoori chicken, prawn mayonaise or egg mayonaise
Sultana scone with jam and clotted cream
Cupcakes - dark chocolate, cherry or carrot and walnut


INBOUND

Starters
Baby spinach and seasonal leaf salad with orange, grapefruit, toasted almonds and champagne vinaigrette dressing
Crabmeat and leek chowder served in a sourdough bread roll

Main Courses
Seared fillet of beef with shiitake, oyster, crimini and button mushroom creamed sauce, roasted chateau potatoes, carrots and green beans
Grilled chicken breast in an Italian herb marinade with saffron and cream risotto and asparagus spears
Parmesan polenta cakes with summer vegetable ratatouille and basil and pine nut pesto

Bread
Wheat roll, sourdough and garlic bread

Desserts
Warm melt-in-the-middle chocolate cake
Tangy lemon tart with raspberry sauce

Cheese
Wisconsin blue
New England cheddar
California chevre

Breakfast
Cereal - Cornflakes, Weetabix, Muesli, Special K
Seasonal fresh fruit salad
Croissant with butter and a selection of preserves
Blueberry muffins
Bacon roll with either tomato ketchup or brown sauce
Grilled Irish back bacon, pork sausage, scrambled egg, hash brown, sauteed button mushrooms and tomato (Not VS 2, 6, 10, 12, 18, 22 and 46)


WINES

Champagne and Sparkling
Champagne Lucas Carton Brut
Berrys Extra Dry Cremant de Limoux

White
Working Dog Chardonnay/Viognier - Australia
L'Herre Gros Manseng/Sauvignon Blanc - France
Signal Cannon Chenin Blanc - South Africa

Red
Tochuela Tempranillo - Spain
Domaine de la Cessane Grenache/Merlot - France
Signal Cannon Merlot - South Africa

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Perfect timing Tinks - will hopefully get to try this on the VS24 tonight

Thanks Tinks y) y)

buns

The fillet of beef sounds rea; tasty infact that menu looks good all round starting with the chouder for starters, cheers tinkerbelle.

cheers

alex

OK, that's my choices made for 18th August...

Thanks for posting it Tinkerbelle.

Oh well I just hope PE has a decent main course offering as none of the above I can eat; Soup and puddy looks good tho !

Wow, that beef main course sounds rather nice!

Thanks Tink,

Whilst I didn't like the Spring menu, the other half does not like any of the starters on the summer menu. I like the chowder, the beef, but do not like the desserts. Other half likes the beef and desserts though. Roll on the 31st July.

I've also just noticed that the chowder is actually served IN the broad roll. Interesting !

As always Tinkerbelle, thanks for posting. Do you know if the improved UC meal service is on all routes, or just the USA?

Thanks Tinks hope the new menu will be on my UC flight on July 1st to BOS???

M

Ghostrider79 wrote:Thanks Tinks hope the new menu will be on my UC flight on July 1st to BOS???

M

Ghostrider, that is the inbound menu from the States. Tinks will post the outbound as soon as it becomes available next week

That actually looks like a good menu, no complaints from me this time.

Scrooge wrote:That actually looks like a good menu, no complaints from me this time.

Has the impossible finally happened?

honey lamb wrote:

Ghostrider79 wrote:Thanks Tinks hope the new menu will be on my UC flight on July 1st to BOS???

M

Ghostrider, that is the inbound menu from the States. Tinks will post the outbound as soon as it becomes available next week

Thanks honey I know i was saying the "new" menu as in the outbound one... sorry didnt make myself clear

Mike

Scrooge wrote:That actually looks like a good menu, no complaints from me this time.

*faints*

When does the Autumn menu appear? We are flying to GND for two weeks on September 30th.

gilly wrote:When does the Autumn menu appear? We are flying to GND for two weeks on September 30th.

It should be at the beginning of September

Is the Dubai menu the same as this or will it be different and if so what route does it typically appear on, ie: uk-us ?

cheers

alex

Alex V wrote:Is the Dubai menu the same as this or will it be different and if so what route does it typically appear on, ie: uk-us ?

cheers

alex

This menu is for flights departing the USA. The Dubai menu from LHR is similar to flights to the US albeit with some changes - ie no pork. The menu leaving Dubai is totally different.

Cheers tinks i will make sure i note it down for my imminent flight TR.

cheers

alex

Ghostrider79 wrote:Thanks Tinks hope the new menu will be on my UC flight on July 1st to BOS???

M

I believe the new outbound menu starts on 1 June - so you'll definitely have it on your flight to Boston.

Scrooge wrote:That actually looks like a good menu, no complaints from me this time.

I had this last Saturday - it was dire. The soup starter was a joke, small, poor tasting and cold, the steak was miserable since it tasted of plastic and the accompanying potatoes and green beans were over cooked, even the lemon tasted of, well nothing really other than flour!

I hope it improves, maybe I had a bad flight ... But it was worse than a roadside cafe.

slinky09 wrote:

Scrooge wrote:That actually looks like a good menu, no complaints from me this time.

I had this last Saturday - it was dire. The soup starter was a joke, small, poor tasting and cold, the steak was miserable since it tasted of plastic and the accompanying potatoes and green beans were over cooked, even the lemon tasted of, well nothing really other than flour!

I hope it improves, maybe I had a bad flight ... But it was worse than a roadside cafe.

Hopefully you had a bad flight - we had nothing but praise for the menu the other day. We all thought it was of a much better quality than before.

Tinkerbelle wrote:

slinky09 wrote:

Scrooge wrote:
Hopefully you had a bad flight - we had nothing but praise for the menu the other day. We all thought it was of a much better quality than before.

Well I hope it does - even the pudding, usually and sadly the best part of the meal was awful.

Wow, now that menu I like y) I only hope I will be able to get my first choice on my next flight to SFO in June.
Anyone know what nibbles are served with drinks on this flight?
Thank you for posting this Tinks, look forward to seeing the outbound menu.

Anna