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NZ6 AKL-LAX on the 26th Aug

I had the lamb with broccolini for the main - was tender and the jus was great - ate light as I wanted to sleep.
Breakfast I had the waffles and the overnight oats

Food and Wine - 8/10 - I could not eat some of the fish items
Service on this flight was 10/10
Bed was 10/10 - slept 7+ hours solid

Carfield

August 2023
Air New Zealand Business Premier
New Zealand to Australia and Pacific Islands

Breakfast

Banana, passionfruit and mango smoothie, or
Cold-pressed juice of lemon, lime, ginger, manuka honey and apple

From the bakery:
Your choice of:
Vogel’s mixed grain toast
Spicy fruit toast
Croissant

With your choice of:
Fresh fruit bowl
Vogel’s Café-style cereal selection
Overnight oats with blueberry and chia

Mains
Kūara and red pepper frittata with bacon, creamed Swiss chard, smoked tomato salsa and toasted almonds

Chocolate buckwheat hotcakes with poached figs and blueberry compote, served with Greek yogurt

Warm bagel with crispy bacon, caramelized onions, fried egg, cheese and tomato relish

Australia and Pacific Islands to New Zealand
Main Meal
Amuse-bouche:
Clevedon buffalo bocconcini with tomato gel and olive tapenade

From the bakery:
Your choice of:
Seeded Sourdough
Crusty white rolls
Garlic flat bread
Served with
Hawke’s Bay extra virgin olive oil

Appetizer:
Honey roast chicken breast with minted peas, steamed kūmara and parmesan salad, pickled red onion and saffron aioli
Or
Puhoi goat’s cheese and crčme fraiche mousse with fenne and radish salad, caraway crumb and fennel oil

Mains
Braised beef short rib with roasted beetroot, kale and grilled spring onion, parsnip and hazelnut skordalia, sumac dressing
Or
Pan-fried snapper fillet with pearl barley, red grapes and pistachios, roasted zucchini, pickled cucumber and preserved lemon labneh
Or
Fricelli pasta with broccoli and roasted shallots, leafy greens, parmesan and chili crumb

Dessert
Coconut mango mousse with roasted pineapple compote, toasted coconut and passionfruit gel
Or
Chocolate Feuilletine, layered chocolate hazelnut dessert with dark chocolate velvet and caramelized hazelnut brittle

Cheese:
A selection of fine New Zealand cheese served wth crackers and fig and pear relish
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Carfield

August 2023
Air New Zealand Premium Economy





New Zealand to Australia and Pacific Islands
Breakfast
From the bakery:
Croissant

To begin:
Fresh fruit bowl
Vogel’s Café-style cereal selection
Yogurt

Mains
Kūara and red pepper frittata with bacon, creamed Swiss chard, smoked tomato salsa and toasted almonds

Chocolate buckwheat hotcakes with poached figs and blueberry compote, vanilla sour cream

Australia and Pacific Islands to New Zealand
Main Meal




From the bakery:
Your choice of:
Seeded Sourdough
Crusty white rolls
Garlic flat bread
Served with
Hawke’s Bay extra virgin olive oil



Appetizer:
Honey roast chicken breast with minted peas, steamed kūmara and parmesan salad, pickled red onion and saffron aioli



Mains
Braised beef short rib with roasted beetroot, kale and grilled spring onion, parsnip and hazelnut skordalia, sumac dressing
Or
Pan-fried snapper fillet with pearl barley, red grapes and pistachios, roasted zucchini and preserved lemon labneh




Or
Fricelli pasta with broccoli and roasted shallots, leafy greens, parmesan and chili crumb

Dessert
Coconut mango mousse with toasted coconut and passionfruit gel






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Carfield

August 2023
Air New Zealand Economy Class
Koru Hours for Domestic Flights

NZ 559 AKL-CHC 5pm departure

sbiddle

I'd attach a copy of the current TT BP menu but there were none AKL-SYD on Friday. More cost cutting?

Thai-Kiwi

I'll help you I recall the BP choices were:

1. Bagel with Egg (& Bacon?),
2. Fish cakes (heavy on the spud, light on the actual fish)
3. And a third 'forgettable' item

There was also the usual bakery items, fruits and bircher muesli.

NZJuniorDoc

I was very surprised at the quality of the meal in all honesty. The beef with ssam sauce was nice. interestingly in a full 787 v1 J cabin, 10 portions beef are generally catered for people who are interested

breakfast though was a flop. literally the rosti option was 2 pieces of potato with a slice of smoked salmon, don't recommend. for some reason, only 1 pancake portion was loaded

Thai-Kiwi

Choices were announced on the PA: Lamb Shoulder, Chicken & Noodles, Vegetarian (tofu?).

I elected the Lamb, minted peas and baby sweet potato. Unfortunately it was tough and too salty. Very carb heavy with potato salad as the side.

Colleagues also had lamb and said it was fine. Unlucky me…




Lamb shoulder, peas and tiny sweet potato

Potato salad

poopbunny

TT J from a couple of weeks back.



Paua saucisson. A for effort but dish was 5/10 if you don't like fishy food. Avoid.

Mozzarella. 6/10

Lamb neck did not sound appealing but chicken was very average 5/10

Chocolate cake 6/10

Thai-Kiwi

Pity the breakfast serving AKL-SYD is so poor

mad_atta

This looks like something of an improvement. Separate salad is a new thing, right?

Thai-Kiwi

Well, I had a separate salad HBA-AKL in late May, but not sure about ‘improvement’ per se…


WORKS meal HBA-AKL later May 2023

cavemanzk

I don’t think I’ve been this shocked with the catering in the NZ lounge before… by 6pm the food started to run out!

At 6pm they had run out of the meat option, which was a pretty tough butter chicken.

The remains of the cold food selection and cheese select left a lot of shock!

The bread rolls tasted like they are from yesterdays stock.

The last two NZ flights leave at 19:20

Thai-Kiwi

I experienced a similar thing a year ago at BNE.

Worse, staff tried ‘BS’ing me by saying catering was timed to the last flight - but became aggressively defensive when I noted food was essentially gone but there were 2-3 flight that didn’t depart for over an hour….

cavemanzk

Along with NZ148/200 never board on time, NZ148 generally doesn’t start boarding until between 6:50-7:00pm.

I though the NZ BNE lounge was a contract lounge to some airlines that depart post NZ148/200.