American Airlines Business Class
Los Angeles (LAX) to London Heathrow (LHR), September 2013
Menu
Starter
Smoked Salmon
With spring pea blinis and cream cheese
Salad
Seasonal greens with fresh vegetables, feta and pepperoncini
With your choice of sour cream and herb dressing or premium extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar
Assorted gourmet breads will be served with your meal
Entrées
Grilled Fillet of Beef
Crusted in Boursin cheese served with wilted spinach, balsamic grilled tomatoes and whipped potatoes
Red Thai Curry Chicken
Accompanied by jasmine rice
Potato Chip Crusted Halibut
Served with thyme red pepper sauce, parsley caper cream sauce, pan-roasted paprika potatoes, haricots verts with shallots and vegetable medley
Four Cheese Ravioli
Complemented by tomato cream sauce
Dine Upon Request
You may choose one of the featured entrées to be served with an appetiser and dessert all at once, or at any time you wish.
Dessert
Traditional Ice Cream Sundae
[Ben & Jerry's]
Vanilla ice cream with your choice of hot fudge, butterscotch or seasonal berry toppings, whipped cream and pecans.
Gourmet Cheese Plate
An assortment of fine cheeses with garnishes
Breakfast
Offered prior to arrival
Entrées
American Breakfast
Three cheese omelette with poblano cream sauce, basil pesto potatoes, fire-roasted turkey sausage and roasted tomatoes
Continental Breakfast
Kellogg's cereal with yoghurt
Served with a selection of fruit and breakfast breads
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We apologize if your first selection is not available.
To reserve your entrée choice before your next flight, please visit www.aa.com/menu]
Wine List
Champagne
Gosset Brut Excellence
Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier create a brilliant and lively bubbly with buttery, toasty aromas.
White Wine
Villa Solais Vermentino di Sardegna DOC
The combination of Vermentino with Nuragus gives the wine a round taste with distinct mineral tint.
Domaine de Martinolles Cuvée Saint-Hilaire
Medium-bodied Mauzac summer-fresh floral aromas woven with citrus and honey tones.
Red Wine
MontGras Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva
This Cabernet Sauvignon has black currant and cherry on the nose with a hint of oak and vanilla.
Spotted Owl Vineyards
This Cabernet and Syrah blend is purple in color with aromas of dark cherry, blackberry and mocha.
Chase's Choice
A wine from our cellars specially selected by Ken Chase
Please ask your flight attendant about this wine choice
Dessert Wine
Bodegas Lustau Sherry, Jerez
Palomino Fino grapes, a great balance of alcohol and flavor, and delicate texture on the palate.
Senhora do Convento Vintage Port
Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca and Tinta Roriz give blackberry, walnut and cherry flavors.
Beverages
We are pleased to offer you a variety of beverages on today's flight, including cocktails of your choice mixed with premium liquor.
Spirits
Vodka
Gin
Bacardi Rum
Whiskeys
Canadian Club Reserve Blended Whisky
Dewar's White Label Scotch Whisky
Glenlivet Single Malt Scotch
Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey
Jim Beam Devil's Cut
Beers
Amstel Light, Heineken and select U.S. beers
Additional beers may be available on select international flights
Brandy and Liquers
Bailey's Irish Cream
Courvoisier V.S.O.P. Fine Champagne Cognac
DiSaronno Amaretto
Kahlúa
Other Beverages
Carbonated beverages
Still and sparkling water
Java City 100% Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee
Nescafé decaffeinated coffee
Tea
Fruit juices
Milk
Notes and opinions:
The starter was an innovative item (by AA standards, at least) and welcome. The salad was made with very good ingredients.
The breads were well-baked and there was a good variety; wholemeal, pretzel bread, several seeded breads.
The Red Thai Curry Chicken was inoffensive but bore no relation to an actual Thai curry, being a cooked whole chicken breast with a mild curry sauce over it. An actual Thai curry has bolder flavours and is made with diced or sliced strips of chicken cooked in the sauce.
The ice cream was not vanilla but instead a crunchy butterscotch icecream (the crew told me before they served it). A welcome change, particularly when I added a shot of Amaretto.
The croissants in the breakfast breads were competently prepared and suitably light and flaky, something not every airline crew is able to achieve. I'm fussy about my croissants.
The Gosset champagne is competent but unremarkable; it is at least of reasonable quality and drinkable.
The Villa Solais Vermentino is pleasant to drink, and matches the description well.
Ken Chase is the AA wine consultant specialist.
The gin was Bombay Sapphire.