Caviar, anyone?
 

Don't you miss the caviar we got in the old days First class?

I know SQ still serves some but are they a dying breed? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

AA had caviar on the cart from BOS to LAX (three class service) just a couple of months ago. But who still serves Dom Perignon in F?

UA say they dropped caviar on "ecologically based" grounds. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Who serves Dom Perignon in First sbrower? Well ask about ten of us that flew UA over and back to DUS in November. A few even had it served in COACH the whole way, in crystal flutes - like Baze and Scott The Flier! I got it served all the way to OZ in Business Class, see:

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I just came back from a trans-Pacific trip in Cathay Pacific's first class (LAX to HKG on CX881 12/23 and HKG to SFO on CX#872 1/13).
Both times the meal service began with a very generous portion of Iranian caviar with all the trimmings on toast and/or blinis and a choice of either Stolichnaya or champagne.

I did think the Stoli wasn't cold enough, but considering the rest of the service, I wasn't going to make an issue of it.

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A few months ago AA had a nice caviar service with all the expected accompanyments in first both directions between ORD and LHR.

AA had a nice presentation of caviar with extras and chilled vodkas served in F MIA-MAD in December. A SwissAir Business flight had it offered IAD-ZRH but it was merely decoration on the side of the plate and not the affair of a wheeled cart.
Anyone seen Lobster tails, not just lobster salad or pasta. A colleague of mine had Singapore Airlines with lobster thermidor in First but has not seen it otherwise. However, salmon is ever present throughout any business class you travel.

AA does caviar in F on almost all of it's 3 class routes, as far as I know.

Virgin Atlantic has micro sprinkles of caviar on some of the open-faced snackies in their EWR lounge. CO served a shelled cold lobster on my last EWR-HNL B/F trip. Delicous!

MisterNice

AA served caviar the last time I flew F between JFK-LHR.

The last time I had nice caviar was at Petrossian! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I had a fabulous meal with hot and cold running caviar with a client at Petrossian about 12 years ago. I paid (and had to raise my consulting fees for this account the following month to make myself whole). The client never complained.

Two trips this month in Singapore Airlines F
First one an evening flight with Dom & caviar served. But what really stood out was the overnight flight where the FA made me scrambled eggs in the morning! (He gave me a choice of how I wanted them done.)

In addition to the aforementioned caviar served by AA in first on the ORD-LHR route, we also had lobster on the way to LHR. Granted it was served with a salad, but everyone got both a lobster tail and claw, pre-shelled.

The salad on the return was served only with large strips of tasty sirloin http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif.

Coming back from HEL on Finnair, they ply you with crawfish. As many as you can eat.

It's a way to pass the time, I think, because you have to de-claw them. The person I was traveling with must have had 20-30 of them over the course of 5 hours...

Speaking of Petrossian, the Petrossian bar in Bellagio in Vegas is outstanding. Excellent caviar and salmon, terrific martinis and iced vodkas.

Of course, there is always the bill (for those of us who don't gamble).

I remember in the early 1980s Pan Am served the caviar in F out of a large tin; in the late 1980s each F passenger got a nice little jar of caviar. They still had all the trimmings at the end though.

Was in EVA FC TPE to SFO sometime last year. Caviar and lobster tail both available, although the latter was too dry.

LH has the cart with caviar (Caspian) and toast in F (international).

Qantas ditched caviar a few years ago, when the Australian government banned the import of the product. An odd response from Qantas, given that half of their meals are loaded *outside* Australia ...

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Craig

Are you sure they weren't having a crayfish party?

If I recall, at a Scandanavian crayfish party, you are supposed to have one shot of some type of alcohol (vodka?) with each crayfish.

Last crayfish party I attended (years ago in Sweden), I had to cut WAY back on the alcohol or else I probably still wouldn't have sobered up to this day http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

AA definitely serves caviar in first ( on 3 class flights ) on all dinner transcontinental flights to JFK, BOS, at least. I have been very impressed with their service. Had caviar and lobster in first on AA 142 from JFK-LHR last October

Going to travelling sea to hnl soon in first, it's a dinner flight, any idea what might be on the menu?

Had Iranian caviar last week.
Aren't there were trade sanctions there?

Whatever you get in domestic F (i.e./ caviar highly unlikely).

CX - F class
AA - P class, int'l F on 3 class service
SQ - F class

Just had cavisr on LH flight in F from FRA-DXB - bug tin, toasy and egg- superb - fligth report to folloe

Just had cavisr on LH flight in F from FRA-DXB - bug tin, toasy and egg- superb - fligth report to folloe

Twice last year when I flew first class on Air France between JFK and CDG, they served a half-ounce jar of caviar with blini and toasts along with other condiments. If my memory is correct, the jar was labed by 'Caviar House'. As the blinis served were very dry and hard, I decided to keep the jar and had a pleasure of finishing it in my hotel room at Paris with wonderful warm toasts and scrambled oeufs! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif Wonder if AF still serves caviar by jar?



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Had a truely great experience with caviar and Cathay (full report to follow). I was the only First Class passanger on the flight HKG-JNB and I got the full tin-14 ounces. The first plate that I recieved the FAs had made a star out of the caviar and the second a heart. I think the heart was to fulfill Cathay's ads "Straight from the heart." The FAs kept trying to give me more food, but I could not eat anything after that. It was great.

You are sooooooo lucky Globalflight!! Sadly, I only get the caviar from speciality stores in 4 pound tins. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

As of the beginning of the year, Swissair has dropped caviar from their service on "environmental" reasons.

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Just did a JFK-FRA segment on SQ in First:

they had both caviar and Dom Perignon (neither one of which is a favorite of mine).

But great service and the food was excellent!

Nobbi

Really? That must have cost Cathay wholesale about as much as you paid for the F ticket. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Aeroflot used to serve very good Caspian caviar on trans-Atlantic flights (if you were brave enought to fly them). I don't know if they still do that.

Swissair will stop serving caviar this month becuase many of the fish are starting to show up on the endagered list.