What Qantas business class meal should I order?

Hi There,

Doing a leg soon and below are my choices.

What like to hear what your opinions are on these food choices, seeing meal service will be around 10pm.

Not sure what flight you are on but for an international long haul departing 10pm, I would suggest eating at the lounge and getting onboard to go straight to sleep. Don't eat just because you can.

I lean towards lighter inflight meals these days, and would suggest the barramundi, especially as this is for an overnight flight – you don't want anything too heavy sitting on your stomach and trying ti be digested. That said, if the meal service is 10pm then is this a flight departing late evening, say 8pm? I'd also look at taking my dinner in the lounge, and using this as an opportunity to get some fresh greens in the mix, and treating this inflight meal more like a lighter supper, which is where the fish is good or even just the soup.

We don't know what flight you're on, or the departure time, but keep in mind that meal service can sometimes seem to take forever to be delivered to your seat, eating into valuable sleeping time.

I had the Barramundi during lunch service on a recent flight to HK and it was very nice. But considering your're doing an evening departure, I'd agree with the others and eat well in the lounge and just have something light as a supper. Personally I'd go for the soup, but the barra is good too if you want something a bit more substentail but not a large meal.

Barramundi, hands down.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Looks like I will eat dinner at lounge (based on suggestions here), hopefully something half edible at the Qantas business lounge. Last time I was there the hot options were not too appealing.

The soup is probably the lightest option, but I had this exact menu last week to Tokyo and, despite my general suspicion of fish on planes, I chose the barramundi. It was very good, not too heavy, not too much, and it matched the chilled sake nicely.

I will attempt to provide a summary of meal choices based on my unrefined palate:

It's still plane food. Reheated food. No better than average cafe food. Get something freshly cooked at the lounge / airport then sleep on the plane.

You’re not wrong about Qatar’s inflight meals, Aidan - it’s an extensive and high quality selection, and the ‘dine on demand’ approach is wonderful.

Every time I have had the barramundi it has been totally over cooked and had to be sent back. Qantas is really lacking in business class food choices compared to some of the other airlines. The lounge option is far better, although even there if you compare to other lounges such as Cathay Pacific it looses again