The only letdown was the IFE - the system itself is excellent but the choice of films was dire. THe best film was Dangerous Liaisions!
Lunch
First course
Rosehip tea-smoked chicken breast slices and grilled summer vegetables
** Trout mousse and gravlax rose with pepper, carrot and courgette salad
** Seasonal salad
** Breads
Main course
**Pan fried fillet of beef with shallot and red wine sauce, risotto galette, broccoli and baby carrots
Corn fed chicken breast, rosemary cream sause, oven baked potatoes with onions, mixed vegetables
Fillet of pike-perch 'acqua pazza' with date tomatoes and turned saffrom potatoes
Fennel and tomato Ragut with green olives. Long grain rice
Cheese
**selection of swiss cheese with pear bread
Dessert
**Apple cream with rosemary and creme de gruyere
Fresh fruit salad
Pre landing snack
Chicken bites with salad. I also had come more cheese!
Wines
Champagne
**Brut Mosaique. Jacquart, Remins France
White
Chasselas Selection du Domaine
**Double Cove Sauvignon Blanc
Red
Les Petits Cretes (Pinot Noir)
Craneford Private Selection (Shiraz)
Clarendelle Clarence Sillin Wines ASA (Merlot)
Port
** Porto Niepoort Tawny. Douro Portugal
The menu with the 'welcome onboard' drinks
Beary looking distinguished!
I saw these chaps as we were waiting to leave the gate. One had just driven the load lifter and the other rode/wheeled the bikes
Post take off drinks / nuts (came in a packet not a dish)
Starter the trout mouse and roe was sublime
Slinky Beware ! this was lurking under the salad!
The main course. The beef was deliscious. Not sure about the risotto galette though - tasted like rice pudding!
Beary and Tonty having fun. Think Beary was listening into ATC
Dessert and cheese (and a glass of port too!). The rosemary in the apple cream really came through but did not overpower.
Mid flight ice-cream. Freshly scooped from a tub and served in a cone. Plenty left for seconds too !
Huzzah for International Jet-setting !
. Slightly ameliorated by the absence of any sign of gravy though!
