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Photo taken by: Howard Long
Route: Toronto Pearson (YYZ) to London Heathrow (LHR),
19 Oct 2003
Ticket price: £4,200 (return)
Flight duration: 6.5 hours
Aircraft type & class: 747-400, First
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner - Canapés;
Starter - Lobster with fruit;
Salad with balsamic dressing;
Main - Chicken Tikka salad;
Cheese plate.
Drink:
Tanqueray No. Ten Gin & Tonic;
Piper Heidsieck Rare Champagne;
Sancerre La Chappelle des Augustins 2002 Domaine Henri Bourgeois;
Château de Tertre, 1996, Grand Cru Classé Margaux;
Château Filhot, 1998, Grand Cru Classé Sauternes;
Warre's, 1986, Reserve Tawny Port.
Comments: Canapés were nowhere near as good as
those out of Heathrow: the bread based ones were wet and soggy. The dim-sum
looking one had blue cheese and pine nuts and was the only good one of
the three. There was nothing that jumped out at me on the menu, but I
found that the lobster was really rather good.
The salad was boring. The chicken tikka salad was cold, which I wasn't
expecting. I left most of the salad and the chicken tikka. The cheese
plate was OK, and I took the opportunity to max out with the wines...
a Sancerre for the goats cheese, a port for the harder chedder and the
Sauternes with the blue. The Sancerre was yummy, being about as bone dry
as anything I've tasted. But it was the Château Filhot which took
the prize for me. There was nothing on the desert menu to excite me, so
I gave up on the food and set up my own personal Champagne reception in
the galley. Service was excellent. By the way, they do use cork screws
on board, but they're kept locked away.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7 for food, 10 for service,
8 overall.
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Photo taken by: Howard Long
Route: Toronto Pearson (YYZ) to London Heathrow (LHR),
19 Oct 2003
Ticket price: £4,200 (return)
Flight duration: 6.5 hours
Aircraft type & class: 747-400, First
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Starter - Goats cheese salad
Main - Beef Bourgignon
Drink:
White - Macon Villages Bouchard Aîné & Fils Côte
de Beaune Burgundy NV
Red - Santa Carolina Valle de Rapel Merlot 2002
Comments: At certain BA long haul locations, you can
choose to eat before the flight if you're travelling in Business or First.
Business is a buffet but First is a more formal sit down at a table. The
point is to allow travellers on red eye flights to get the maximum amount
of sleep on board by not interrupting them with a meal service. The goats
cheese salad was OK but rather tasteless. It was a very large salad for
a starter. The beef bourgignon, in contrast, was very good indeed. The
white wine was OK, but the red was awful. One tiny sip was enough to give
you goosebumps and never want another. The quiet environment was pleasant,
as was the service. The pre-flight dining menu is rather limited in my
view: there is a better selection on board the plane. The quality of the
wines on the ground in both Business and First is worse than those in
the air: there is no Champagne for example on the ground except for locations
with dedicated First lounges.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7
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Photo taken by: Howard Long
Route: London Heathrow (LHR) to Toronto Pearson (YYZ),
16 Oct 2003
Ticket price: £4,200 (return)
Flight duration: 7.5 hours
Aircraft type & class: 747-400, First
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Tea or Dinner?
Contents of the meal: Chicken Tikka Masala
Drink: Stella Artois beer
Comments: Although I wasn't hungry, for the sake of AirlineMeals.net
I
thought I'd try one of the Always-Available section of the menu (even
though everything on the menu is supposedly available when you want).
The Chicken Tikka Masala is good, being more spicy than I expected. I'd
have it again.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9
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