UA 64 EWR-LIS, 11/10/2023
787-10

For the first time in my experience, a PlusPoints upgrade didn't clear on a paid PP fare--I ended up second on the upgrade list, leaving me saying to myself "fine; yes today, Satan." But anyway: Dinner was pretty great overall! The steak came out medium rare, something I can't remember ever happening on a plane before. I repeat: medium-rare steak inflight.

The mushroom sauce served in that foil cup didn't do much for me, but the creamed spinach and potatoes were excellent accompaniments. Salad was fine, made more interesting with bits of fennel, and the Milk Bar cookie cake thing was delicious. Good service too, with the FA topping off everybody's wine glasses and making sure I had my choice (the other option was a pasta dish). The roll, OTOH, was forgettable and would have been even if it had been served warm.



Breakfast options were a scrambled egg choice that appeared to come with potatoes and spinach or some other greens, so would have been redundant after my dinner. Instead, I got a "banana bread French toast," and after a few bites of these food pucks and the vanilla cream sauce around them I realized that this dish reminded me of the old French toast souffle. Which is good! Croissant doesn't look like much but did arrive warmed, still inside its ovenable plastic.



Since I also slept decently, I don't feel bad about upfaring to PP even if it didn't yield the upgrade I planned on. But having a printed menu would class up the presentation a bit. (Having written that, I now realize that I forgot to look in the app to see if they had a menu to consult there. Would I have seen one if I'd bothered to check?)