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Old Jul 28, 2016, 10:38 am
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Originally Posted by sky303
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Another excellent crew after a super-quick trip to Europe. Food was better this time than coming over. The salad with tomato vin and appetizer were stand-outs, but there wasn't a bad bite there. As usual out of CDG, the bread was excellent, and the Deutz is always an appreciated upgrade from Jacquart.

Settling In: Asian Beef with mango salsa, soya dressing, and micro greens



Starters: Heirloom Tomato Salad with feta cheese and olives, served with tomato vinaigrette

Thai Coconut Soup




Main Course: Spinach and Ricotta Stuffed Chicken with tomato souffle, summer vegetable saute, and chicken jus



Dessert: Vanilla Ice Cream Sundae with strawberry sauce, whipped cream, and wafer cookie

White and Milk Chocolate Gnocchi served with dark chocolate mousse sand strawberry

Had same menu this month ZRH-JFK the main featured a specialized option for this route being chicken schnitzel.
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Old Jul 28, 2016, 10:41 am
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Lunch

Open bar PDB

Choice of chicken pasta or red snapper with chopped fruit

I went with the chicken which was good, but it was really more of a jerk chicken pasta

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Old Jul 28, 2016, 10:41 am
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Connecting to NRT-KIX off of DTW-NRT in J. Anyone know what the service is like on a 300 mile interport flight in J? Meal? Amenity kits, duvets etc? I know when I did ICN-NRT we got a pretty sizeable service and all the regular J amenities on that rather short flight...

ETA: Kind of an odd service. So you get domestic blankets and pillows, champagne, OJ, mimosa, beer PDB tray, hot towel prior to pushback. In the air pretzels and full beverage service. No meals but thats not at all surprising, and using real glass plus a full selection of beverages, i think they seem to actually have JL and NH beat in J on similar flights.

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Old Jul 30, 2016, 2:34 pm
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Is the Summer Menu overriding the regular choices from this? My flights are usually JFK to major hubs so been getting stuck with the ridiculous Danny Meyer meals

http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_...ne-dining.html
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Old Jul 30, 2016, 3:02 pm
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Originally Posted by FlyAO2
Is the Summer Menu overriding the regular choices from this? My flights are usually JFK to major hubs so been getting stuck with the ridiculous Danny Meyer meals

http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_...ne-dining.html
I actually think this whole menu is outdated and no loner in use. They rolled out new seasonal menus not that long ago, and I think they just failed to take this down from the website. So yes, there is both a different summer menu than what is shown on that link, and then certain JFK flights have a whole other premium (though you may not like it) Meyer offering.
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Old Jul 30, 2016, 3:10 pm
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Originally Posted by jdrtravel
I actually think this whole menu is outdated and no loner in use. They rolled out new seasonal menus not that long ago, and I think they just failed to take this down from the website. So yes, there is both a different summer menu than what is shown on that link, and then certain JFK flights have a whole other premium (though you may not like it) Meyer offering.
I know the Meyer meals are supposed to be hip and fancy, it just is TOO fancy for a plane where your options are limited. e.g. on my last flight to London instead of a pasta vegetarian dish they had this bizarro mushroom concoction.
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Old Aug 1, 2016, 10:35 am
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PDB - Choice of Orange Juice or "Champagne." As there was time, despite the late arrival of the plane due to incompetence of gate assignments at LAX for which there was no notification until well after the posted boarding time had passed, FA's offered refills

STARTERS
Antipasto Misto with marinated fennel and kalamata olives, chianti salami, marinated goat cheese, arugula pesto spread and crostini

Mixed Greens with oven-dried grapes and hazelnuts served with warm bread (choice of whole wheat or sourdough) and parmesan dip

MAIN COURSE
Short Ribs in Red Wine with cheesy polenta triangles, pearl onions and zinfandel vinegar

Pork Tenderloin with toasted spice crust, honey roasted apple puree, broccoli with cambozola cheese, toasted pine nuts and fingerling potatoes

Fettuccine with lemon braised artichokes and spinach

DESSERTS
Usual choice of cheese plate or Dark Chocolate Gelato
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Old Aug 1, 2016, 5:09 pm
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I think the other option was described as a Mediterranean salad with chicken breast. I opted for the burger.

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The potato salad was dry and the potatoes tasted like cardboard, otherwise it might've been good. The bottom bun is heated along with the patty and was slightly dried out and crunchy, but they topped it with a fresh unheated bun, so I guess whatever your toasting preference is you'll be unhappy Other than that, it's an airplane burger. Not bad, not spectacular. Ditto the cheesecake, roughly on par with what you'd get out of a Sara Lee box
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We flew SAN-DTW-SAN in Juliy. This was our first time to fly Delta in decades. I was surprised that the hamburger was served in both directions. I'm not used to that on other carriers where the east bound and west bound menus differ. Is this common?
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Old Aug 1, 2016, 5:43 pm
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Originally Posted by SanDiego1K
We flew SAN-DTW-SAN in Juliy. This was our first time to fly Delta in decades. I was surprised that the hamburger was served in both directions. I'm not used to that on other carriers where the east bound and west bound menus differ. Is this common?
Not my experience in general on DL. Certainly the worst offender of this practice is AA where menus have become the same in both directions on flights between city pairs since the merger there.

Out of curiousity, did you happen to note if the second choice was also the same?
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Old Aug 1, 2016, 5:50 pm
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Out of curiousity, did you happen to note if the second choice was also the same?
Thanks for answering me so helpfully.

No, the second choice differed. In both cases, it was a chicken salad but one direction was with quinoa and the other was more leafy greens.

I was surprised to be given an ice cream sundae as part of our breakfast on an 8am flight from AMS. Mind you, I took it, but it didn't make a lot of sense to me as a breakfast course.
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Old Aug 1, 2016, 5:56 pm
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I'll take a DL burger over the weird options I've seen lately any day.
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Originally Posted by SanDiego1K
Thanks for answering me so helpfully.

No, the second choice differed. In both cases, it was a chicken salad but one direction was with quinoa and the other was more leafy greens.

I was surprised to be given an ice cream sundae as part of our breakfast on an 8am flight from AMS. Mind you, I took it, but it didn't make a lot of sense to me as a breakfast course.
It is very unusual to be given the same option in both directions on the same route.

As for the ice cream, were you in Y or J? What time did your flight depart? If you left on one of the later morning departures, it does not seem very odd to be if they still do the sundae bar in J, when it may be after lunchtime by the time they do dessert service. The sundae service is also a signature part of the delta J experience. But if it was served at 8am or something that might be strange.
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Originally Posted by jdrtravel
As for the ice cream, were you in Y or J? What time did your flight depart? If you left on one of the later morning departures, it does not seem very odd to be if they still do the sundae bar in J, when it may be after lunchtime by the time they do dessert service. The sundae service is also a signature part of the delta J experience. But if it was served at 8am or something that might be strange.
We were in business. Our flight left at 8am.
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Old Aug 1, 2016, 11:19 pm
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Originally Posted by SanDiego1K
We were in business. Our flight left at 8am.
OK, a little strange. On the other hand, it was probably what...10:30 or 11 by the time the dessert cart came around? I can also see this thread filled with people complaining about not getting a Sunday "just because" they were on the morning flight. I assume there was also fruit and cheese and cakes as options, right?
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