Winter 2009/2010 Upper Class Menu UK-USA

Here's your new menu for you - copied down very quickly during the night!!

OUTBOUND

Starters
Seasonal leaf salad with herb and coarse grain mustard coated chicken breast, red pepper, spring onion and vinaigrette dressing
Leek and potato soup

Main Courses
Free range cumberland sausages in port and redcurrant gravy with parsnip and potato mash and pea puree
Thai green chicken curry with fragrant rice and pak choi
Mushroom, spinach and feta pithivier with beetroot and shallot sauce and herb roasted root vegetables

Light Bites (VS 7, 17, 19, 23, 43 only)
Bruschetta with red pepper hummus
Lamb and apple kofta with cucumber and garlic raita
Mini vegetable lasagne

Desserts
Jam sponge pudding with custard
Glazed lemon tart

Cheese
Cashel blue
Barbar's cheddar
Somerset rustic

Afternoon Tea (Not VS 17)
Selection of sandwiches - prawn cocktail, tandoori chicken, egg mayonnaise
Sultana scone with jam and clotted cream
Carrot cake

INBOUND

Starters
Seasonal leaf salad with sauteed baby scallops, roasted red and yellow peppers served with creamy lime and tarragon dressing
Pumpkin bisque

Main Courses
Chicken cacciatore with butter noodles and sauteed asparagus
Spinach and ricotta gnocchi with broccolini and roasted tomatoes
Seared salmon fillet in a parsley cream sauce with potato cake and grilled yellow squash (VS 4, 6, 8, 18, 20, 24 only)
Beef tenderloin medallions, roasted parsnips and carrots and mascarpone polenta with red wine sauce (VS 16, 28, 44, 74, 76 only)

Desserts
Sticky toffee pudding with custard
White chocolate and raspberry cheesecake

Cheese
Buttermilk blue
Knight's Vail
Double cream brie

Breakfast
Cereal - Cornflakes, Weetabix, Muesli, Special K
Plain bagel with cream cheese
Cranberry and walnut pound cake
Cinnamon and raisin breakfast bread
Seasonal fresh fruit with organic yoghurt
Bacon roll with either tomato ketchup or brown sauce
Sausage, bacon, baked beans, sauteed mushroom and grilled 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
Du Toitskloof Chenin Blanc - South Africa
Tres Olmos Verdejo - Spain
Don Victor Chardonnay Reserva - Chile

Red
Mountain View Merlot - California
Camparron Seleccion Toro - Spain
Michel Lynch Bordeaux - France

[:X]

And if anyone if wondering what a 'pithivier' is:

Wikipedia link

I had to look it up myself!
[:p]

[Neil]

quote:Originally posted by Tinkerbelle
And if anyone if wondering what a 'pithivier' is:

Wikipedia link

I had to look it up myself!
[:p]


Thanks for that, when I was reading it I wondered what the hell it was[y]

The menu actually sounds quite nice, especially the outbound one, but I guess how it tastes is the most important.

quote:Originally posted by Neil
The menu actually sounds quite nice, especially the outbound one, but I guess how it tastes is the most important.


I agree [y] - give me good sausage and mash with champagne (very Jeffrey Archer) and I'm a happy bunny.

Still addicted to soups though ...

Fingers crossed for s&m on the PVG route!

Cheers Tinks

quote:Originally posted by McMaddog
Fingers crossed for s&m on the PVG route!


[:I] Isn't that asking a little much of the cabin crew?

quote:Originally posted by pjh
quote:Originally posted by McMaddog
Fingers crossed for s&m on the PVG route!


[:I] Isn't that asking a little much of the cabin crew?


A minor addition to the 'tucking in' service surely?

Thanks for posting. It sounds okay to me, though I have got an inner fear that the 'parsnip and potato mash' sounds like a relative of that mysterious orangy/yellow 'vegetable mash' that Little Chef serve. Not that I'd choose it anyway.

Also, interesting to see asparagus during winter. That has to have been air-freighted from somewhere. Naughty.

No croissants with brekkie either. Boo, hiss.

I still wish they would bring back the steak sandwiches as the lighter bites. I remember the first time I saw that... I was like 'Wow. Steak sandwich on a plane...'.

Mike

quote:Originally posted by mike-smashing

No croissants with brekkie either. Boo, hiss.



Croissants always seem to alternate with bagels. [:p]

[Darren Wheeler]

quote:Originally posted by Tinkerbelle
And if anyone if wondering what a 'pithivier' is:

Wikipedia link

I had to look it up myself!
[:p]


So it's a pie! Why not just call it a pie? After all, everyone likes pie, especially with chips, for free.

[honey lamb]

Mmmm! Not bad. I wish I had a flight during this rotation if only to try out the pithivier. Oh and the lemon tart. And the mini veg lasagne. And the chicken cacciatore. And..... And..... And..... [:D]

[Darren Wheeler]

Perhaps someone has actually been reading the comments on the UC food recently.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm - sausage and mash and jam sponge pud 'n' custard on the same menu [y][^]

Looking good (all the veggie options) nom nom nom

Looks OK, not convinced about the inbound starters (allergey to shell fish) or the prawn cocktail

quote:Originally posted by 15isto2
Looks OK, not convinced about the inbound starters (allergey to shell fish) or the prawn cocktail


If you have an allergy to shell fish, why not order a special meal?

[buns]

Tinkerbelle

Grateful thanks[oo][oo]

I must say, it looks pretty promising[y]

Only hope I manage to get my first choice[:w][:w]

buns

Free Range Cumberland sausages!! you have to watch those little devils, if you don't hobble 'em they'll be away over the dry-stone walls before you can round 'em up. So don't expect to see them on the menue too often!!

[Scrooge]

As ever, well ok with the exception of one good menu, to me it looks like ****

'What are we going to serve our passengers in UC, let's see what the local pub is offering.'

quote:Originally posted by Scrooge
As ever, well ok with the exception of one good menu, to me it looks like ****

'What are we going to serve our passengers in UC, let's see what the local pub is offering.'


If it's ever as good as my local pub, then it will be fabulous. But then this comes from a chap who went to Maggie Jones' last night and had cornish mackeral and horseradish (really easy to do on a plane, surely?), then saddle of lamb with mashed potatoes, cauliflower cheese, peas and bacon, and red cabbage!

quote:Originally posted by slinky09
quote:Originally posted by Scrooge
As ever, well ok with the exception of one good menu, to me it looks like ****

'What are we going to serve our passengers in UC, let's see what the local pub is offering.'


If it's ever as good as my local pub, then it will be fabulous.


Indeed. If only Virgin's UC food was anywhere near as good as the pub near my girlfriend's local in East Dulwich. (It's soon to be her ex-local too...)

Mike

sorry wrong thread

I can highly recommend the white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake from the inbound menu! [:D][y]

I had the menu (sausage and mash, salad, cheese and jam roly poly) back in December and thought it OK, then on Saturday out to San Fran had it again and it was fab. Really, really nice. It may have had something to do with the utterly, utterly lovely female CC member looking after me (if I were the marrying kind, I'd have whisked her off [ii]). But all round, well done VS [y].

[Darren Wheeler]

You old smoothie you. They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach...