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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZUNITED AIR LINES
Business ClassLondon LHR to New York JFK
Snack: Mini sandwiches made of tuna, egg salad and turkey on wheat bread. Raison roll on the side. Drink: Starbucks Coffee Comments: "Good, but, I had expected more food choices in Business Class."
Denver to San Francisco
"Streamlined" Breakfast: Fruit Salad, Your choice of pastry, breakfast grossito/nastito, I mean burrito Drink: Bailey's!!! Comments: "Burrito was worse than the ones I've had in Peasant Plus... guess what movie I'm watching?"
San Francisco to Denver
"Streamlined" Breakfast - Fruit salad, your choice of pastry, and a breakfast bagel. Drink: Cranberry Juice on the Rocks Comments: "The bagel seemed like Peasant food..."
London to New York
Dinner: Chicken with potatoes and mushroom in gravy. Desserts consist of a Tiramisu cake and Starbucks coffee.
San Francisco to Tokyo Narita
Dinner: Steak with gravy, jumbo asparagus, a cheesy potato nest au gratin and chocolate cake. "The gravy masked the general dryness of the steak but the asparagus/potatoes rocked."
San Francisco to Denver
Lunch: "A warm sliced turkey/chicken (?) breast sandwich served on a foccocia like bread with a very few grilled/cooked red onions. Served with a generous side of mayo and included a dill pickle spear, cherry pepper with a slice of tomato. Had this very tasty sandwich been served in a restaurant I would deduct a bit for the soggy layer of bread next to the meat, but hey this IS airline food. A cold salad of mixed color pasta with pine nuts. Mixed fruit bowl included two types of melon, pineapple, a strawberry, and a few seedless red grapes. All fruit was ripe and nicely sweet. Dessert was a light (cake style versus creamy) cheesecake with a chocolate (cookie?) crust and a chocolate topping drizzled with caramel and a few walnuts. Flawless meal and easily rates a perfect 10. Kudos to the chef who planned the meal and the ground food provider who prepared this excellent meal. The service upstairs on this 747 was also excellent and the ladies providing the service are to be complimented. Is it any wonder frequent fliers seek upgrades; one can only shudder at the thought of what the common folk in 'cattle' class were offered on this short two hour flight; I hope their peanuts were at least salted."
Denver to San Francisco
Dinner: "A large pair of cheese filled ravioli served with a meatless tomato sauce. Although the ravioli were attractively decorated with colorful stripes, the edges were dried and more than just a bit chewy. A more liberal serving of the tomato sauce would have been a plus as the ricotta cheese filling alone is not a moving taste experience. The mixed green salad was crisp and the serving size adequate; served with French dressing. The dessert was a chocolate crusted light cheesecake, I think; no menu description was provided. "
San Francisco to Toronto
"I greatly enjoyed this, my very first business class meal. Or was it the copious amount of legroom? the comfortable seats? the attentive service? the real salt and pepper shakers???"UNITED AIR LINES
First ClassSydney to San Francisco
Dinner: "Crab cakes with oven-roasted tomatoes in red wine sauce and risotto with parmesan cheese. Then came a salad with lemon myrtle dressing. The main course" was a Filet Mignon with a roasted garlic demi-glace and parslied chateau potatoes and Chinese broccoli. Dessert was Ice cream with sundae toppings. The red wine I had was a 1999 Kangarilla Road McLaren Vale Shiraz. For airline food, even in International First Class, this was really excellent."
Vancouver to, Denver
Hot Roast Beef Sandwich: Roast Beef, cheese, onions, peppers. Also came with a Pasta Salad, and fruit tart. "Pasta Salad wasn't very tasty, but the sandwich was!"
Cleveland to Denver
Breakfast: "It was pretty good, they also served muffins, bagels, and croissants."
Denver to San Francisco
Dinner: BBQ Ribs served a mixed vegetable side along with a side salad, dinner roll, and Eli's Cheesecake. "This meal was very filling, but it left quite a bit to be desired. The ribs were very very dry and hard to eat. The roll became rock hard from the time of warming them to the time that I ate them. The salad and the salad dressing were quite good, and I devoured it all. The cheesecake (which I could hardly eat after being stuffed from the ribs) was wonderful. The cheesecake alone is a
reason to fly United. I have better, although the meal was served nicely, and was very filling."
Salt Lake City to Chicago ORD
Breakfast: "Mixed grain Basic four cereal with milk and banana, along with 8 oz Yoplait strawberry yoghurt to be eaten with vanilla flavored granola. Flight attendant offered choice of hot bread (croissant, muffin, bagel) for plate with grape jelly and butter. Linen napkin along with metal silverware and porcelain dishes. Pack of sugar for cereal or coffee, and salt and pepper to taste. A very filling meal, the hot croissant was the best part, along with granola in the yoghurt and fresh
banana. Very good; Cereal is cereal, would have preferred more fruit."
Los Angeles to Honolulu
Dinner: "My mai tai before lunch service, grilled mahi mahi in creamy sweet corn sauce (sorry, no picture). it was a very good entree, enjoyed it a lot. The drink was nice, a little on the strong side, and not very well mixed (all the alcohol on top, etc.), but great anyway!Economy Class
Los Angeles to Washington IAD
Lunch: Ravioli, Salad, Breadstick, Chocolate Chip Cookie, La Croix Sparkling Water. "The ravioli was a bit more edible than it looks. The sorry salad, however, was not. The breadstick
and cookie were both too crispy for my taste."
Chicago ORD to Los Angeles
Snack: Turkey and cheese sandwich, Macaroni salad, Milano Cookies, Canada Dry Club Soda. "I'm a sucker for Milano cookies, and that alone would've been a good enough "snack" for me. The
rest, however mediocre it was, was just gravy."
San Francisco to Orlando
Dinner: Stuffed Shells. "The salad was lousy, but the shells were a lot better than the other choice (rubber chicken)."
New York JFK to San Francisco
Dinner: Sliced roast beef, carrots and broccoli with mashed potatoes and gravy. A shrimp and celery salad, plus a green salad and dinner roll with cheese and crackers. Dessert was a creamy cheese cake. "The roast beef had a nice flavor and I wondered if this we a menu item from the summer taste of Chicago promotion? The mashed potatoes tasted like instant. The shrimp salad was a nice addition, but the accompanying celery did not have much added flavor from the covering light dressing. The cheesecake was tasty but a bit too sweet for my tastes."
Paris CDG to San Francisco
Snack: Some kind of poultry (chicken/turkey?) and mystery cheese United micro-sandwich, served with a bag of potato chips. The 'dessert' was a KitKat bar. The micro-sandwich the Dijon mustard option, which I prefer, but my wife could not tolerate; it was quite 'zippy' and did wake-up my taste buds. Why UAL does not provide both a mustard or mayo package is beyond me? I wonder why UAL doesn't both to identify the food? It's probably for "security reasons" as that's their 'reason' for
everything these days.
San Francisco to New York JFK
Lunch: A cold chicken breast served with rice and lentils, a micro-salad, roll, and Milano cookies for dessert. "This meal needed salt, or something to rescue it from its slumber in the land of bland. No salt, nor pepper, was to be found in the plastic ware bag nor on the tray; my seat mate found salt & pepper under his salad tray."
Chicago to Tokyo
Lunch: Char siu pork with glass noodle salad, Vegetable salad with Asian-style dressing, Stir-fried
chicken with Jasmine rice, Chocolate cake "The cake was the best part in this meal."
Oakland to Washington IAD
Snack: Tortilla Chips, Salsa, Cheese Spread, Water Crackers, Orchard Fruit Mix, Sugar Cookies
Cranberry Juice Cocktail. "I was pleasantly surprised to see the stewardess handing out large packages of snacks; I wasn't expecting any food after breakfast!"
Breakfast: "What was in the meal?: Burrito (Egg & Cheese), Cranberry Orange Nut Muffin, Fresh Fruit (Cantaloupe, Honeydew Melon), orange juice. The eggs were rubbery, the tortilla shell was
hard, the muffin was cold, and the Honeydew wasn't ripe."
Tokyo Narita to Bangkok
Dinner: Succulent pork atop a bed of fragrant noodles, garnished with cute little carrot flowers. "A prime example of Japanese caterers preparing Asian food for American palates."
Paris CDG to San Francisco
Dinner: This is the chicken menu option that goes with the above lasagne style pasta dish. The chicken was served with mashed potatoes, a brown substance assumed to be grey and a few brightly colored green beans. The meal included a few red seeded grapes some crackers and Camembert cheese. The micro-salad was served with an Italian style salad dressing, a bagged roll and a pat of butter. Note the empty dessert serving tray, as mentioned above, the ice cream dessert was served after the meal. "I was sorry I opted for the lasagne rather than the chicken, but as always this is something of a Hobbes' Choice."
Paris CDG to San Francisco
Dinner: A lasagne style pasta dish stuffed with ricotta cheese and with a hint of tomato sauce with a pair of black olives and what I believe where two shreds of bell pepper. The meal included a few red seeded grapes (apparently French kids are able to discern that the seeds need not be eaten), some crackers and Camembert cheese. The micro-salad was served with an Italian style salad dressing, a bagged roll and a pat of butter. Not shown is the caramel/chocolate sauce ice cream dessert; they served it after the meal in a rock hard form rather than with the meal with an allowance for it to soften a bit? "I opted for the pasta as I had had the chicken option on the flight to CDG; my wife order the chicken which can be viewed in the next contribution; perhaps this can be a new category of photographing both menu options J?"
San Francisco to Paris CDG
Snack: Another smoked turkey and mystery cheese United micro-sandwich, served with a mixed fruit bowl; sorry I should have removed the lid from the fruit container as the reflected flash hides the contents. The dessert was a bagged slice of 'pound cake;' probably more correctly called a half-pound cake. A small container of orange juice included. "The micro-sandwich was pre-basted with mayo, while I prefer the Dijon mustard option as it at least wakes-up my taste buds."
Dinner: The standard chicken and rice fare with a slathering of tomato sauce and a few carrots added for color balance. The micro-salad was served with vinaigrette salad dressing, a bagged roll and a pat of butter. The meal included a few red seedless grapes, some crackers and Camembert cheese . oh so French. The dessert was a caramel flavored creamy style cheesecake. "What can you say about chicken & rice? There was a rotten grape included in my serving; you can see it in the left center of the fruit-and-cheese serving tray. I found the wrapped cracker package impossible to open. I liked the Camembert cheese and the dessert."
San Francisco to London LHR
"The great mile-high peanut famine strikes again. Quite a nicely designed mug. Clean simple shape, elegant lines... shame about the coffee, though."
San Francisco to somewhere in the US, a few years ago "I've banished the memory of this meal, Chilli dogs: by nature, not very visually appetising. Somebody in catering should have know better."
San Francisco to Amsterdam
"There's something about warm green food that just doesn't work for me. I think those tubular things were some sort of pasta concoction. Don't get me started about the mushy broccoli."
London LHR to San Francisco
"I was very impressed with the white/wheat bread roll combo, and the apple/orange/kiwi fruit salad was a pleasingly fresh complement to the predominantly earth-toned entree."
Chicago ORD to San Francisco
"This 5 PM flight snack included a smoked ham and Swiss micro-sandwich; this time UAL was bold and ID'ed the cheese type. The cole slaw was too sweet for my taste. The M&M's for dessert were colorful. I enjoyed the additional read material UAL supplied inside the meal box, but I would have preferred another pack of Dijon mustard to spice up even more the micro-sandwich."
San Francisco to Chicago ORD
"Time was when a four hour flight included a hot meal, now if you are lucky you get a snack. This 11 AM flight snack included a honey roasted turkey & cheese micro-sandwich; no idea what type of cheese it was other than 'white.' The carrots and dressing made a most wonderful 'salad,' and I was able to use the excess salad dressing to add some much needed moisture to the turkey & cheese. I found the chocolate/vanilla layered pudding dessert to be quite good... thank you Swiss-Miss!"
Chicago to Boston
Beverage Service: "Salty snack was tasty, could've eaten several more packages".
Seattle to San Francisco
Breakfast snack: Breakfast which was like a trail mix, only geared more toward breakfast eating; a pound cake type thing; a banana. Water "It was actually not bad, a little on the sweet side. At the time I had already eaten something at the airport so I wasn't that hungry for the meal. I did take home the breakfast mix and the banana."US AIRWAYS
First ClassPhiladelphia to Los Angeles
Dinner: "What was in the meal?: Chilled smoked salmon with traditional accompaniments with run-of-mill chardonnay and excellent presentation, texture."
Philadelphia to Minneapolis/St. Paul
Dinner: Mixed greens salad. Cheese Lasagne. "Hot meal was a nice surprise on 3 hour flight. Croutons on salad were soggy, Lasagne was quite flavorful. Roll was pretty good. Meal wasn't extravagant like transcon flights, but it was filling and pretty tasty. I especially liked how the flight attendant served my meal with the drink on the tray."
Philadelphia to San Francisco
Dinner: The appetizer consisted of mixed green salad with vinaigrette, a warm pumpernickel roll and a delicious fresh shrimp cocktail with cocktail sauce in a carved out cucumber. We actually were given a nice little menu with salad choices and three different entrees (chicken, beef, or turbot stuffed with salmon). Main course consisted of beef tenderloin with a burgundy wine sauce, grilled peppers and green beans, and parsley mashed potatoes. Drinks flowed throughout - I had red wine. "First class meal on US Airways is far superior to their coach meals. Big meals like this only served on transcon flights... meal was surprisingly good. We actually were given a nice little menu with salad choices and three different entrees (chicken, beef, or turbot stuffed with salmon). As another person said on the website, US Airways still doesn't skimp up front. Flight attendants kept my wine and coffee filled as often as I wanted."
Los Angeles to Baltimore
Lunch: Appetizer is smoked salmon with cucumber and tomato slices, garnished with sweet onions. Salad topped with creamy Italian dressing and parmesan cheese shavings. Bottom left shows ramekin with heated assorted nuts served during cocktails. "US Air provides an extraordinary service in the
front cabin during U.S. coast to coast flights. With limited galley space on their 757s, they still are able to offer a top notch multi course main meal. Both Baltimore and Los Angeles catering was excellent, close to restaurant quality."Economy Class
Philadelphia to Amsterdam
Dinner: Beef with vegetables and rice. "Not bad of taste and nice presentation."
San Francisco to Pittsburgh
Dinner: Iceburg lettuce salad with tomato, beef tips in black bean sauce with rice pilaff, and a Walker butter cookie. "Meal was definitely worse than what was being served up front. Salad dressing came in small ketchup-style packet and was hot - yuck! Salad was fresh, but minimal. Rice was acceptable, as was the beef; however, I'll probably try the pasta option next month."
Pittsburgh to Dallas
Breakfast: "This "Aladdin tray" is a stackable vacuum thing that keeps the food hot on board till its served. The bottom of the tray is like an air pocket. Most US carriers no longer serve any food on routes less than 3 hrs, so this was a big treat."
Los Angeles to ?
Dinner: "The only thing that really made us believe this was a salad was that it came with salad dressing!"
Sources: Airguide Airline Survey, passenger mail and E-Mail, www.airlinemeals.net and www.ratings.net.
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