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Old Jul 14, 2019, 8:33 am
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Welcome to this thread where you could find detailed information about food onboard Turkish Airlines.
For information on the Turkish Airlines website please click here.

Meals are complimentary on all Turkish Airlines and AnadoluJet flights regardless of travel class and flight time.
Alcoholic beverages are complimentary as well, however, they are only loaded to selected flights.

Feel free to edit the WIKI if you want to add further information or if you think that it needs modification.



WIKI updated until post: 289

Domestic and Short Haul:

Business Class: 197
Economy Class: 236
AnadoluJet:

Medium Haul:

Business Class: 187, 196, 234, 266, 268, 282, 289
Economy Class: 305
AnadoluJet:

Long Haul:

The list for long haul flights would be made by the departure time and flight number.
Flights departing from IST and outstations are separated for your convenience.
Eg: 13:05 TK 9 Istanbul to Los Angeles - Business Class

Business Class:
Westbound flights departing from IST

Eastbound/Southbound flights departing from IST

Westbound/Northbound flights departing an outstation

Eastbound flights departing an outstation


Economy Class:
Westbound flights departing from IST

Eastbound/Southbound flights departing from IST

Westbound/Northbound flights departing an outstation

Eastbound flights departing an outstation
11:10 TK800 PTY-IST, Business, #269

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Before COVID-19
Meals are loaded on flights depending on the flight time and classified like this.

Domestic:

Business Class: Morning flights would get a hot light breakfast, a cheese & fruit plate in addition to butter and jam.
Flights later in the day would get a starter dish + a salad + a dessert
Economy Class: A cheese sandwich ( warm ) is served on all domestic flights
AnadoluJet flights: A cold sandwich or a pre-packaged cake is served on all flights


Short Haul up to 2 hours ( eg. Tel Aviv, Athens, Bucharest... )

Business Class: Morning flights would get a hot dish ( omelette, borek, gozleme ( Turkish style pastry ) ) alongside with a cheese & fruit plate, butter, jam, bread, and Danish pastries
Rest of the day flights would get a starter + a main dish ( chicken, lamb, köfte... ) + a salad + a dessert
Economy Class: A box containing a sandwich, a cake and a salad ( for morning flights: yoghurt ) would be served.

Medium Haul between 2 and 8 hours ( eg. Mumbai, Paris, Stockholm, London, Addis Ababa... )

Regardless of the flight time, these flights would get only one food service and no second meal or snack is served on Economy Class at all. On longer flights, drink runs are made by the cabin crew midway during the flight.

Business Class: Morning flights would get a hot dish ( 2 options would be present: generally one would be an egg dish and the other one a Turkish style breakfast dish ) alongside with a cheese & fruit plate, butter, jam, bread, and Danish pastries
Rest of the day flights would get a starter + a main dish ( 3 options would be present: generally a pasta dish, a meat dish, and a fish dish ) + a salad + a dessert.
Economy Class: A hot meal would be served with a salad and dessert. For morning flights instead of a salad and a dessert, yogurt and a cheese&olive plate would be present. Some flights may receive a brownie instead of yogurt.

LongHaul more than 8 hours ( List Below )

The destinations are: Atlanta, Bangkok, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Caracas, Chicago, Denpasar (Bali), Durban, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Los Angeles Madagascar, Manila, Maputo, Mauritius, Miami, Montreal, Newark, New York, Panama, Phuket, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington DC, Xi'an.

Onboard both cabins, two main courses would be served on these flights according to the flight time. A snack basket would be available at the galley which would have sandwiches and cakes.

Flights departing between 04:00-10:30 would have a Breakfast + Lunch/Dinner
Flights departing between 10:30-04:00 would have Lunch/Dinner + Breakfast ( if arriving at morning ) / Lunch/Dinner ( if arriving later in the day )

Business Class: Depends on the route. You could find information about meals here. In addition, pre-ordering meals are also available for several flights, for more information please consider looking at the relevant thread by clicking here.
Economy Class: Depends on the route.

Below this line, you would be able to find example meals and photos of the offerings onboard.

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WIKI updated until post: 77

Domestic:

Breakfast - Business Class: 9
Rest of the Day - Business Class: 10
Economy: 4, 36
AnadoluJet:

Short Haul:

Breakfast - Business Class: 7, 17, 63
Rest of the Day - Business Class: 6, 16, 42, 60
Economy:

Medium Haul:

Breakfast - Business Class: 14, 29, 59
Rest of the Day - Business Class: 5, 15, 28, 44, 65
Breakfast - Economy: 2, 11, 53
Rest of the Day - Economy: 3, 8, 25, 52

Long Haul:

The list for long haul flights would be made by the departure time and flight number.
Flights departing from IST and outstations are separated for your convenience.
Eg: 13:05 TK 9 Istanbul to Los Angeles - Business Class

Business Class:
Westbound flights departing from IST
13:05 TK79 IST-SFO, Business, #18, 30
15:40 TK31 IST-ATL, Business, #71

Eastbound/Southbound flights departing from IST
1:30 TK66 IST-DPS, Business, #35, 72 ( breakfast only )
2:00 TK70 IST-HKG, Business #74 ( main course only )

Westbound/Northbound flights departing an outstation
21:00 TK67 DPS-IST, Business, #48
21:45 TK65 BKK-IST, Business, #38
21:55 TK25 TPE-IST, Business, #23

Eastbound flights departing an outstation
18:30 TK10 LAX-IST, Business, #19, 22, 32, 70
18:10 TK80 SFO-IST, Business, #27
23:05 TK36 YUL-IST, Business, #31, #75

Economy Class:
Westbound flights departing from IST

Eastbound/Southbound flights departing from IST

Westbound/Northbound flights departing an outstation

Eastbound flights departing an outstation

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Old Mar 24, 2024, 1:48 pm
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Originally Posted by sbabin1019
Question: Flying DFW to IST later this week in business and have an 11 year old child in my party. The child is defaulted to "child" meal, and I can't seem to change it from the website. Does this mean the 11 year old has to eat the kid meal or can this be changed upon boarding the flight from a child meal to a regular adult meal? I called TK and they can't change in in their system either because it keeps reverting to the child selection after the change. Anyone have experience with this? Thanks.
At boarding they will already have it prepared and bo changes will be possible. I’m sire the crew will try to help and serve a meal that was not used if they can. However, we were reading that about default child meal in Business Class. I think it is connected with the special type of ticket you bought for your child. Was there a discount of the child’s fare? That could be the reason.
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Old Mar 24, 2024, 4:46 pm
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I do believe that the child ticket may have been a cheaper price, but I didn't select that ticker, per se. I simply had to put her date of birth, and it automatically assigned that ticket to me. I did not have a choice. I am happy to pay more for the food, but have no idea how to make this change before the flight since I called TK and the person who answered didn't know how to change it either. Thanks.
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Old Mar 25, 2024, 1:54 am
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Originally Posted by sbabin1019
I do believe that the child ticket may have been a cheaper price, but I didn't select that ticker, per se. I simply had to put her date of birth, and it automatically assigned that ticket to me. I did not have a choice. I am happy to pay more for the food, but have no idea how to make this change before the flight since I called TK and the person who answered didn't know how to change it either. Thanks.
Did you try calling/visiting your local TK office? If none, send a request at www.turkishairlines.com/feedback
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Old Mar 25, 2024, 6:24 am
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Originally Posted by sbabin1019
Question: Flying DFW to IST later this week in business and have an 11 year old child in my party. The child is defaulted to "child" meal, and I can't seem to change it from the website. Does this mean the 11 year old has to eat the kid meal or can this be changed upon boarding the flight from a child meal to a regular adult meal? I called TK and they can't change in in their system either because it keeps reverting to the child selection after the change. Anyone have experience with this? Thanks.
My experience of flying 3 short-haul Business Class flights with kids is that on the 2 where we actively wanted and selected/were assigned Child Meals, only once did we get them. Their loading of them seemed hit-and-miss. On the third (most recent) time we wanted and got adult meals. I didn't look at what we'd been assigned, and one of the kids would have been 11 at the time. It's a random affair, in my short-haul experience at least!
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Old Mar 27, 2024, 5:24 am
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Quick question about pre-ordering meals in J: If you pre-order your meals via the app, are they set in stone, especially for breakfast/2nd meal? Ex. Say if I preorder a rather healthy dish of poached eggs and spinach, but mid flight my gluttonous sweet tooth kicks in and I want to change my breakfast order to the crepes, if there’s extra, would the crew generally be amenable to this, or is the order set in perpetuity once I place it online?
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Old Apr 1, 2024, 7:00 am
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TK 1370 MLA - IST
01 April 2024
Business breakfast




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Old Apr 1, 2024, 7:05 am
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Breakfast service is always inferior to lunch/dinner. No matter the airline.It is just not worth the same amount of money
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Old Apr 1, 2024, 7:26 am
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Originally Posted by MitjaPod
Breakfast service is always inferior to lunch/dinner. No matter the airline.It is just not worth the same amount of money
Even better when it's on 10:25 departure so most people already had some kind of breakfast and by the time the meal is served, it's well past 11.

But today I don't mind, I was looking forward to mantı in the lounge and I'll have proper dinner on the second leg, so I was happy to have a lighter first meal.
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Old Apr 1, 2024, 2:15 pm
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Business dinner

I really didn't like the starter, it was more or less a compilation of stuff I dislike and I felt like quality was a bit off too.

I went for kebab as the main, which was delicious but also not too different from what I'm used to in TK economy. 🤔



Post-dinner rakı
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Old Apr 1, 2024, 2:18 pm
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Originally Posted by the810
TK1955
Istanbul - Amsterdam
Business dinner

I really didn't like the starter, it was more or less a compilation of stuff I dislike and I felt like quality was a bit off too.

I went for kebab as the main, which was delicious.



Post-dinner rakı
Salad starter looks like an iftar version of a starter since is ramadan (they also serve a light salad with sea fruits or fish and hard boiled eggs in Morocco for breaking the fast, for example). Also the date points to iftar like service.
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 7:21 pm
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TK30 EWR-IST Early April ‘24

Overall surprisingly good catering ex-EWR. Seafood starter was absolutely delicious, soup was good but nothing too special, gnocchi main was simple but very tasty and really hit the spot (also note, this is one of those dishes where I could tell the “chef” made a difference with the broccoli and zucchini clearly cooked differently, perhaps steamed, compared to the rest of the elements of this dish…and it worked very well), desserts were great especially the decadent chocolate cake. Breakfast was a bit of a let down with the pancakes being somehow dry even with the vanilla sauce. But overall, not a bad meal at all!











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Old Apr 6, 2024, 4:11 pm
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Until what time is manti available in the lounge?
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Old Apr 6, 2024, 10:12 pm
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Originally Posted by degas
Until what time is manti available in the lounge?
23:00 Istanbul time
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Old Apr 7, 2024, 7:29 pm
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TK68 IST-BKK Early April ‘24

Yet another amazing meal on TK with just a few complaints. The sour yoghurt and kofte soup was hands down the best soup course I’ve ever hand in the air, iiregardless of it being J or F. It had the perfect balance of flavors and complexity and the mini koftes were perfectly cooked. The cold starter plate was a bit of a letdown with the prawn, zucchini, and muhamarra being delicious but the octopus being absolutely way too rubbery for human consumption. I don’t think anyone on this flight that ordered it was able to even get a single bite in. The lamb main was absolutely delicious, perfectly cooked to a medium-medium rare, and ranks up there with the best lamb dishes I’ve had in the air. Both desserts were decadent and very tasty too. Breakfast was also tasty and relatively light which I appreciated on this relatively short long haul. Only wish the fruit portion was larger and the European cheese and olive plate was smaller. But not a big deal. Overall, another great TK meal. Wine and drinks menu is the same as my previous post (#911), except oddly enough no raki was on the menu even though the flight was ex-IST.





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Old Apr 8, 2024, 5:17 am
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Kofte in soup? I'm in love!!!
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