Delta to serve new menus by celeb chef Todd English
NEW YORK (AP) — Delta Air Lines is launching a new upscale menu of in-flight meals designed by celebrity chef Todd English.
The menu includes Mediterranean salad with grilled shrimp, roast beef Cobb sandwich, chilled black olive spaghetti salad, cheddar-turkey bacon-apple butter croissants and Nutter Butter sandwiches. Items will sell for $2-$10.
The new meals will be introduced in November. By spring of 2008, they will be available on all flights of approximately 750 miles (about 90 minutes) in the contiguous U.S., serving markets like Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston, Houston, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Portland, Ore., and Tampa
Customers will still get free snacks on all Delta flights over 250 miles and on Delta Connection carrier flights.
Delta has also hired Andrea Robinson, a master sommelier, TV host and author, to curate its wine offerings. Her selections debut in Delta’s business class in February.
Delta, based in Atlanta, emerged from bankruptcy protection on April 30.
Other airlines have also brought in well-known chefs in recent years. Air France’s wine selections are overseen by Olivier Poussier, named the world’s best sommelier in 2000 by an international sommeliers’ association, while the French airline’s first-class meal menu was designed by a renowned Paris chef, Guy Martin of Le Grand Vefour restaurant.