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Howard Long

United States (RDU) to United States (LOZ), 14 Dec 2003

Business Class

Dinner
Warm roasted nuts & fresh vegetables in a pesto ranch dressing; Bread selection including Uno's focaccia bread; Smoked salmon with capers, red onion and sour cream, lemon, toast; Seasonal salad with lobster tail and claw, garlic dill dressing; Stew of braised chateaubriand with wild mushrooms in a red wine sauce topped with spinach and gnocchi; Fruit and cheese including caciotta, cheddar and a sharp blue, with grapes and dried apricots; Vanilla ice cream with hot fudge & butterscotch sauces, whipped cream and chopped pecans.

Methode Champenoise Californian spakling wine Gin & Tonic (Tanqueray no 10) Champagne (Pommery 1995) White wine (Bouchard Aine Mersault 2001) Red wine (Chateau Pichon Longueville 1997) (provided by pax) Gra

The same crew I had on the inbound flight landing the previous day were taking me home. The FAs immediately recognised me and said "Welcome back, Mr Long". You can't beat an impressive dose of brown-nosing like that! Delta couldn't do that on a similar neck breaking transatlantic return flight I had six weeks earlier with the same crew out and back, although they did recognise me. The warm nut selection and raw carrot/celery with its yummy sauce were as good as the outbound journey. The smoked salmon again very good, but I guess maybe maye a change to this course from the outbound journey might have been nice too. Still, it's a very tasty dish and I wasn't going to turn it down. Champagne was good. The focaccia bread I took from the selection was again very fresh, not dry at all. The salad with garlic and dill dressing plus the lobster tail looked great and tasted OK. The Mersault was pretty good. The stew was rather disappointing. OK but nothing great. The problem was that I was trying to make something work with the Pichon Longueville I'd brought on board. Still the wine was pretty good at least, especially as the crew had uncorked it for me a couple of hours earlier to let it open up. The cheese selection was a little better this time with a very sharp blue. Sadly I had brought no Chateau d'Yquem on board for it on this occasion. I took their port instead. Ice cream was not bad. With only six out of the eighteen seats taken helped make for 4.5 hours sleep out of 7 total flying hours. There was no noisy breakfast service, because no-one took any: all that was offered for breakfast was a continental style uncooked selection (yoghurt, cereals etc), so I really wasn't going to wake up for that, not even for Airline

Date added: 2009-11-18   //   Flight: 7:00   //   Aircraft: 777, First or leisure trip: