Allright, if we are going to talk about where to get good food to eat, I have to figure out how to get Hemingway's at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cayman to send me one of their entire Key Lime pies. I have had them everywhere, and Hemingways has the best key Lime pie by far. (Maybe I'll just have to use some miles to go down there again and get some.)

OMNI posting... Never been to the Caymans but have been to the REAL Key West and enjoyed
the Key Lime Pie there (After Strawberry shortcake and Pineapple cheese cake my favorite pie.)

Are you a member of Hyatt's frequent guest program? It could be expensive but maybe you
can save a trip by asking the consierge or
master chef at the hotel to make a pie, flash freeze it and then ship it overnight FedEx
to you house.

Now I'm hungry for Key Lime Pie! CATMAN

Best meal that I can recall was sometime in the eighties on Pan AM from CDG to JFK in first. I don't recall, but the main course was a bouillabaisse witha large piece of lobster in it, and the desert was a gateau St. Honore'.

In general, first class service has gone downhill internationally. Whereas the service used to have many courses: caviar, appetizers, soup, main course, desert and cheese, nowadays the caviar is combined with the appetizers (when served at all), there is no choice of appetizers and one is given a choice of cheese or desert. One now also has to request drinks instead of the bottles being put out. I know that UA carries some premium drinks (very good single malt, cognac and calvados, but they are not offered ubless requested.

My best meal recently was on UA first, ORD > EWR. It was lunch, and the main course was called a mixed grill. It had a piece of rare beef filet, a piece of pork tenderloin and a small lamb chop, done just right (pink). Delicious!

Once again, I've been born too late to miss
the grand days of fine cuisine in first class. Caviar? Real Champaign? Soups? Many
courses? I have to go to the Blue Water grill
in NYC to get that! (though I don't care for caviar.)

B-A has fine cuisine in business and first.
I guess many of the Foreign airlines do (Virgin though probably serves cookies with
Sir Richard's bearded face on them!)

As for the drinks... maybe the airlines stopped the free flowing alcohol (like from
PHilforest's entry on the booze cart on Southwest in the fifties) because of the many
dangers. Like travelers driving home/business drunk. Or alcohol's too expensive. Or incidents with intoxicated travelers getting into fights with Flight attendants who cut them off.

Also an airline won't want a flyer to stagger off the plane. IN flight. CATMAN

On a flight from London Heathrow to Toronto in November in Executive First, Air Canada served "freshly baked cookies". They were very very good (chocolate chips still warm). The rest of the meal was typical of a Canadian airline (not great, not bad).

How would they bake cookies on board a 747-400?

not tough---use the frozen Mrs Field's cookie dough or Pillsbury slice & bake, plop them on a foil cakepan, and go.

As reported elsewhere on this board some time ago, Midwest Express has made fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies into something of a religion. Me, I prefer the UA cheesecake!

I still like ice cream on a flight--something about the essential inappropriateness of it (kind of like baked alaska) makes it fun!

My best in-flight meal was on a UA 727 from SJC to ORD just last year. They had an option called "Mexican Lasagne" which I had to try.

It had corn lasagne noodles with a standard cheese and red sauce between the layers, but on top was a green tomatillo sauce that was just a little piquant.

I have tried to find corn pasta but have struck out.

Chipper... belated welcome to FlyerTalk. Now
an OMNI posting: you may try an international
supermarket in your area (like a Fiesta supermarket) which may sell Mexican and Spanish food. It sounds like a Spanish type
of pasta. Sounds good too.

Here's another rare great meal: Turkey with Apple flavored stuffing, real chunks of apples and a very nice sweet potato mash.
IN first on UA: IAD-EWR. Probably leftover from Christmas day but Turkey very tender.

They served the standard apple crumb pie though. NO BEN & JERRY"S ICE CREAM (OR EVEN BLUE BELL!!! BOOO!!!)

Also nice that AA offers choice of Pepsi and Coke for those of us who prefer something with more PEP to the ounce! CATMAN

Diet or regular Catman?

I think choice of carbonated drink is the horoscope of the new millenium!

Can't you just see the ad?

"Diet pepsi drinker seeks regular Fanta lover ".

Nick

OMNI Just for you Merry: Regular Pepsi in those Royal (British Airways) blue cans. Can't take the taste of diet soda and only drink it when I have to shed a few pounds.

I can only get Fanta in Spanish grocery stores or the giant Wal Mart 945 thousand miles from my home. Like the Orange and the Pineapple (drink it when I get overseas.)

Here's a Pepsi to the new millenium! (in 2001 for the record!) CATMAN

You are about to see me do something I never do... say something good about NW. Corky's BBQ on meal flights from Memphis.

I'm not sure this qualifies, since the airline didnt provide the meal, I did.

I was flying CO EWR-SAN, to visit family.
As I always do on my NYC to San Diego flights, I bring food for the Kinfolk.
This flight I was transporting 2 lbs of
Pastrami(the real stuff, not the stuff they have in southern calif) and a dozen Zeppolis
(from Angelo's in Bensonhurst). It was a long flight, first class meal was pasta and I wasn't interested in pasta. So I made myself a Pastrami sandwich and had a Zeppoli for dessert :)

Once had a friend from NY warn me: Be careful of any restaurant or deli that spells "pastrami" with an "o".