Originally Posted by onthesam

I misread -- I thought OP was asking about differences after polaris and not before. Please excuse the grump quoted above.

Food was superior. Access to GS check-in at one point. Ditto on the delicious wines - and bubbly ones too! Soup course was great.

The service as mentioned was hit and miss but some of my best in-flight service experiences every were in GF. The ginger and sushi ex-NRT was top-notch!