Airplane Meals 2.0

Australian Nik Loukas has an Instagram account and website full of reviews of airplane meals. He flies no less than 180,000 kilometers a year with one sole purpose: reviewing the food on board. According to Loukas, eating in the air doesn’t always have to be awful.

Plastic container

Airplane food has a terrible reputation. Not surprisingly. Because, to be honest, we sometimes also wonder what on earth is lying on our fold-down tray when we remove the aluminum foil from our hard plastic container.

It is possible: good food

But according to Loukas’s determined research, food on board doesn’t always have to be bad. All the major carriers are covered, as well as obscure airlines such as Air Serbia and Ethiopian Airlines. He describes the food in both business class and economy. And each meal receives a rating, with Loukas showing himself to be a lenient reviewer in most cases.

KLM

On a flight from Frankfurt to Rome with Alitalia, the tiramisu earns his high praise. Even on long, intercontinental flights, he says, a decent meal is served in many cases. For example, on the Amsterdam-Singapore route with Singapore Airlines, he is impressed by the steak with shallot and tarragon sauce, roasted pumpkin and mashed potatoes. Our own KLM also comes out favorably in his reviews. Loukas is particularly fond of the curries and the blue-and-white sandwich boxes featuring canal houses on short flights.

Foie gras

Anyone accustomed to flying economy will gaze hungrily at the photos of the food served in business class (‘New meals Aeroflot: meatballs with foie gras‘, the site reports excitedly). The breakfast in the most expensive KLM class, created by two-Michelin-star chef Onno Kokmeijer, also looks incredibly tempting.

Of course: you’re still flying with the wings you have. You can hardly conjure up food that is tasty, warm and beautifully presented on 3m2 for 350 people. However, Loukas’s reviews show that hungry air travelers are increasingly well served.

Documentary

Loukas is currently making a documentary about the food industry at high altitude. In this documentary, The Inflight Food Trip, he investigates how it is possible to provide food every day for so many people in such an abnormal setting. The film is expected to be released later this year. We’re curious.

Follow him on Instagram and Facebook or check out his website.

Image: @inflightfeed, via Instagram.