sorry aeroplane food is a cliché for a rationality , but Air New Zealand is tear the trend , Food & Wine report . The air hose ’s new in - flying menusfeature culinary creationsby New Zealand chef Michael Meredith and Peter Gordon , the Kiwi - endure executive chef of London ’s democratic The Providores and Tapa Room . To advertise their revamped repast options , Air New Zealand launched a gratis , two - solar day kill - up restaurant in London that serves nothing but airplane solid food .
The impermanent outpost , calledThis is How We flee , is run out of the Unit London picture gallery in Soho , but it ’s only sticking around for two days — April 25 and April 26 ( which is today , which means you ’ve only got a few hours pull up stakes to give it a try ) . Patrons posture in aeroplane chairs and dine on options including “ lamb with minted peas , braised lettuce with Francis Bacon lardons , and salinity roasted crushed new potatoes with mint jelly " and a " yoghurt marinated chicken tikka with saffron pilaf jewelled rice , and aloo ghobi with naughty raita dressing , ” according toFood & Wine .
Vegetarians were able-bodied to baby , too , as the airline business ’s meatless knockout include “ soy marinated tofu brown rice seaweed with sesame miso clip and a chunky veg ” and “ tofu coconut dress with spinach and coriander green rice . ” New Zealand wines and afters like apple rhubarb and treacle tarts were also on the card .
Air New Zealand did n’t simply wine and dine prospective flyers — they also surveyed them on their position about airline business food . The company wonder 1000 adult , and bump that 25 percent of respondents prefer hospital computer menu option to airway culinary art . Meanwhile , half of respondents said they disliked aeroplane food . Still , customers were uncoerced to reconsider their human relationship with sky grub if it were made from fresher ingredients , or if fare featured a wider regalia of option .
Air New Zealand is n’t the only company in the South Pacific that ’s rethinking its feeler to aeroplane food : air hose flying out of the state of Queensland , Australia , have teamed up with a Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae called OzHarvest Brisbane tocollect uneaten sandwich and snack , which are then donate to more than 800 charities .
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