B6 534 SFO-BOS
Eastbound Lunch/Dinner
November 23, 2021

Lots of pictures of this menu upthread already but here's my contribution:


Grissini and Al Pastor Margarita — the cocktail was delicious (even though I'm not normally a tequila person)


Clockwise from top left:
CITRUS ENDIVE SALAD frisée, citrus vinaigrette, hazelnuts
VANILLA GELATO caramelized bananas, almond-honey crumble
CHICKEN MILANESE baby greens, mustard vinaigrette
LAMB SHOULDER brussels sprouts, potato crumble

The endive salad was more a citrus salad — plenty of orange and grapefruit slices but only two tiny endive leaves at the bottom. Chicken milanese was slightly overcooked/dry, but it's hard to mess up fried chicken. Lamb shoulder was amazing although a little too salty — really flavorful and cooked just right. Ice cream toppings were odd — the almond-honey crumble is more reminiscent of a cross between granola and breakfast cereal, while the caramalized bananas were weird and oddly dry — somewhat like a dry paste and maybe they were supposed to be heated?

Service was average — not as good / attentive as other Mint crews I've had in the past, although they did do a full PDB run on the ground after boarding. The Mint FA/purser was also confused when I asked if I could have the ice cream at the end (which seems to be a fairly common request based on what's been reported on here) so it just came out with everything, but it was rock-hard this time around so leaving it out to soften up did help. And have the cards that come with the cashews been discontinued? Didn't really care for them anyway but haven't gotten one in a while.

Overall though the Mint soft product still blows the competition out of the water — did a transcon on DL's A339 as part of a status challenge and was not particularly impressed, while UA catering is just bad (which is a pity since I really like the Polaris seats) and I try my utmost to avoid AA. Now if only the new Mint suites could make their way to BOS... booked late so couldn't get a suite on my flight, but thankfully had the only empty seat in the cabin next to me so that was fine. The air cushions in the old seat are really terrible though.