What other airline even has a summer menu?
Virgin America has announced changes to its in-flight menu — after all, you should always serve what’s in season.
Virgin has released its new menu to get people who fly on other airlines mouths to water. (There’s a reason Virgin won the Best Domestic Airline for Food in Travel + Liesure 2009 Worlds’ Best Awards.)
So what’s cooking? We could go into fancy prose at this point, but instead, we’ll just show you the menu, that speaks volumes and then think about what you had to eat on your last flight.
First Class Breakfast
- Fresh baked sweet cranberry walnut bread served with sweet creamy butter.
- Fresh summer fruit with candied kumquats, pomegranate and vanilla yogurt.
- Chorizo sausage, potato and egg omelet.
- Fresh herb omelet: Farm fresh egg omelet filled with goat cheese and ratatouille of zucchini, yellow squash, fresh herbs, garlic and vine ripened tomatoes served with a tangy tomato wine sauce.
- Baked eggplant, zucchini and egg frittata.
First Class Lunch and Dinner
- Andalusian gazpacho with crostini.
- Baby beet salad with oranges and arugula.
- Pork tenderloin with a guava smear, port wine figs & saffron spaetzle, horseradish oil.
- Roasted vegetable lasagna with garlic cheese toas.
- Grilled pork charmoula with crisp eggplant with ricotta, pomegranate molasses and papaya relish.
- Roasted eggplant, tomato and artichoke tart with polenta and wild mushroom mac-n-cheese.
- Wellington of home-style meatloaf with prosciutto, wild mushrooms, panache of fresh vegetables and sauce cabernet.
- Vegetable eggplant moussaka.
- Fresh Fruit & berries with passion fruit sabayon.
- Butterscotch pudding with vanilla bourbon mascarpone.
- Redeye fruit and half sandwich: Selection of Hand cut artisan cheeses of Brie, aged white cheddar, and smoked Gouda, garnished with baby frisée lettuce, quince, raspberries, blackberries and a delicate macaroon pastry, served with a half sandwich.
Now the main cabin (aka coach on other airlines) may not have all quite the menu, but there are still some tasty choices.
- Granola with fresh fruit and yogurt: Build your own yogurt parfait with 18 Rabbits pecan, almond, maple granola, fresh pineapple, kiwi, oranges, red seedless grapes, and strawberry and fresh fruit yogurt.
- Vegetables and Cheese.
- Pastrami sandwich with swiss on russian rye.
- Turkey, cranberry and brie.
- Grilled veggie sandwich with goat cheese and basil.
Virgin America has also added a few new cocktails.
- Tequila Tea: Hornitos Reposado 100% Blue Agave Tequila + Honest Tea
- Sweet Tree: VeeV Acai Spirit + Cranapple Juice
- Grandma’s Coffee: illy issimo Iced Cappuccino + Whiskey
- Rouge Sunset: Karma Sparkling Wine + Cranapple Juice
- Mile High-Tini: illy issimo Iced Cappuccino + Vodka
