Singapore Airlines Suite Aperitif
QATAR AIRLINES
We have no words to express how much we love this company, and how much we would love for many others to blatantly –and blatantly– copy their practices and services . We are not the only fans. Last year Skytrax gave him the award for the "Best Airline of the Year 2012" , and received again (for the sixth time in a row) the award for best airline in middle East.
we kept this ace up the sleeve for second edition of gourmet food and drink on board , because also, as for knife and fork , is several bodies ahead of most airlines. And it is that, although the fact of having the advice from great chefs for their bussiness and first menus, it is not something exclusive, the pocket of aces with which they have set up the qatar team It is very, very difficult to match.
We refer to the tests: Ramzi Choueiri is one of the most popular and recognized chefs in middle East , a true celebrity, who is followed by more than 10 million viewers on her daily television program and the culinary ambassador par excellence of the lebanese cuisine (something like the French for Europeans in the Arab world) . not far behind Vineet Bhatia , the only Indian chef to have won two Michelin stars and that he has restaurants in London and advises the best hotel restaurants in Mauritius. The European touch puts it Tom Aikens , the youngest Briton with two Michelin stars , with its combinations of British (the least) and French (the most) influences, and the fashionable pairing (traditional Japanese cuisine with ingredients from South America) is in charge of Nobu Matsuhisa (better known as Nobu, just) of whom his numbers speak better than anything: two Michelin stars and 29 restaurants in 25 cities, on five continents.
This gastronomic offer, which is already available on some selected flights, will be introduced to passengers on board the new boeing 787 dreamliner , a new plane that, according to expectations, promises to break with everything that came before. Will have to try it.
Tom Aikens, one of the star chefs creating for Qatar Airlines
SINGAPORE AIRLINES
One morning you wake up craving risotto . And then you remember that the next day you have to fly. In most cases, you have no choice but to resign yourself , unless you do it, for example, with Singapore Airlines and you get to brujulear on its website. Then two things can happen: this dish is on the menu card and you start to salivate , or that you find some delicatessen that you fancy even more. That's what the program is about. book the cook , which allows you to choose the main course that you will eat on board (as long as we do it with a minimum of 24 hours) from a rotating selection.
The gastronomic offer of Singapore Airlines does not end here: the call International Culinary Panel , a group of chefs who cook in some of the best restaurants around the world make well-matched team with the airline cooks, and they are in charge of designing a gourmet menu that is served in all classes (a very democratic detail on the part of the company, which we deeply appreciate). Among them is Alfred Portale (from the famous Gotham, New York, United States, one of the greats of American cuisine), Georges Blanc (Vonnas, France) , which hangs on his jacket three Michelin stars , either sam leong (Singapore), master of classical Chinese cuisine.
A similar pool has come together to choose the wines with which pair all these viands and the selection of alcohols. Are the Wine connoisseurs , sommeliers , critics Y consultants , which have recently included a Rioja from Bodegas Roda, Reserva del 2007.
If you still need a special menu, the company (definitely another one of our favourites) has options for all the necessities : kosher, Muslim, vegetarian, gluten-free menus... even for 'newly weaned children'.
Part of the Singapore Airlines catering
MALAYSIA AIRLINES
In the same line of satisfying the palates of its passengers of all classes and conditions, Malaysia Airlines is one of the companies with the most options for customize the menu . It is difficult to catch him in a resignation, because he has an answer for any imaginable and unimaginable food restriction . Its specific menus adjust to all kinds of limitations for religious reasons: Hindus (with the option of vegetarian without beef, pork or smoked fish) , Muslims (without alcohol or pork products and following Muslim rites) or kosher (with manufacturing certificates). There are also special dishes for passengers with stomach problems, diabetics, gluten or lactose intolerant, low in calories, salt or fat, and for vegetarians and vegans.
Just in case the menu falls short, you can choose to eat only oriental, only fruit, only raw food or dishes made only with fish and seafood. If the diner is subjected to other diets, suffers from undescribed allergies or professes any other religion with unspecified prohibitions (or is simply the princess of the pea), and has not found among any of these options the one that fits like a latex glove to your wishes, there is still another option: They will cook for him especially what he needs. Just like Ryanair, come on.
In First and Business Class Malaysia has also incorporated the service chef-on-call . We can't take the chef with us on a trip (which would be delicious), but we can choose between the 25 special recommendations from the menu. The selection must be made between 30 days and 24 hours before the flight. Menus change every month to ensure globetrotters don't fall short.
The treatment of Malasya Airlines adds to its excellent gastronomic offer
LAN AIRLINES
One of the main characteristics of the Chilean company is that it focuses its culinary offer on products from South America. Of everything, we are left with the wine list The Premium Business: a selection of the regions of the Southern Cone prepared by Hector Vergara (unique Master Sommelier in Latin America) where you can taste some of the best wines from the new world, such as Primus Malbec 2005 , ( Bodegas Salentein Valle del Uco , Mendoza), a Viu Manent Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 Reserve (Vina du Manent Valley of Colchagua), a Ribera del Loncomilla Syrah 2008 Grand Reserve (Concha y Toro Vineyard, San Javier Valley) or a EQ Coastal Savignon Blanc 2009 (Matetic Vineyard, San Antonio Valley) . And to finish, a glass of champagne. None other than Roederer.
Personalized attention is one of LAN's values
LUFTHANSA
We conclude our review with one of our European parent carriers : German efficiency at 400%. We also like gastronomically speaking because it is one of the few that almost always continues to serve something to entertain us during the trip. On almost all flights it offers free drinks , even on the shortest routes (such as Frankfurt-Paris) and to the forgotten tourist passengers a sandwich (hot food and snacks on the longest) .
Your service gourmet on board "Star Chefs" (Famous chefs above the clouds), is available on long-haul flights departing from Germany, although now it is, only for First and Business Class . The dishes bear the signature of chefs such as Harald Wohlfahrt (Baiersbronn) , Dieter Muller (Bergisch Gladbach), Daniel Boulud (New York) and Paul Bocuse (Lyon) and among them you can enjoy delicacies such as 'roe deer loin with a herb crepe and pepper sauce' either 'grouper crust with shrimp soufflé on a layer of couscous and kaffir lime sauce' . So that later they say that in Germany you don't eat well. At least, in its air space.
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