El Al launches a brand new menu for flights

El Al introduced this morning the release of the brand new menu for its flights. The release comes after several months of labor by means of El Al’s culinary teams collectively with Chef Assaf Granit. In a celebratory occasion that included tastings of the range of recent dishes attended via the main cooks in Israel, El Al’s control and influencers from the culinary area, El Al revealed the brand new menu that has been saved mystery for several months. The new menu can be gradually implemented on the planes starting September 5.Thus, a brand new dish may be launched inside the tourist segment at the stop of the month – meatballs in pumpkin hamusta sauce on a bed of rice and noodles. The sandwich menu has also been upgraded and includes inside the first stage 3 new kinds of sandwiches, all together with a first-class pretzel bun: brisket sandwich – with baked onion, garlic aioli, and chipotle aioli. Vegan labne cheese sandwich – with slices of beet, vegan labne cheese and non-spicy schug, and a lemon chimichurri bird sandwich. In the coming months, extra sandwiches can be delivered to the menu, for example the “Friday Schnitzel” sandwich, and new strains are predicted within the discipline of dairy sandwiches.

Most passengers do not want to miss the food on the flight

During the occasion, El Al offered some of interesting records from a examine they conducted among Israeli passengers, as a part of the work at the menu:

seventy five% of the survey participants testify that the meal is an critical part of their flight enjoy.

Seventy seven% favor to consume Israeli meals on the flight that reminds of domestic.

About 60% rated the in-flight food as one of the 6 maximum crucial parameters in choosing an airline.

85% do now not need to overlook the meal and prefer to be woken up for the meal.

Passengers flying by myself sense five instances greater hungry than the ones flying with other passengers.

About 70% do not frequently deliver meals to the kids from domestic.

Not simplest the meals is vital, however also the ingesting – sixty four% testify that the drinks are just as vital because the meals.

Chef Assaf Granit, who led the kitchen at some point of the occasion, got here on level and defined the system of setting together the menu and his private connection: “The Israeli melting pot has usually been my culinary inspiration. A connection among vacation spot to destination, among united states of america to united states of america and between one lifestyle to every other. My food is in the air “The maximum at home inside the world”, together with the nearby and modern-day substances which are primarily based on the recipes of the past. So if I meet you whilst you move overseas you will revel in a few greater domestic meals. And in case you’re to your manner back to Israel, right here’s a chew of the returnees.”

The CEO of El Al, Dina Ben Tal Gnansia, said: “I am proud to present to you nowadays our new menu, a menu born entirely from our worldview to offer a holistic carrier experience. We attempt to provide a completely unique and precious purchaser enjoy to our customers, and after reading remarks and many conversations with clients, we decided to select Chef Assaf Granit as the organisation chef. For many months, El Al human beings worked collectively with Assaf and his group to deliver a new and thrilling line within the area of aircraft food. El Al is the home of Israelis in the world, and as such we selected to offer our customers a properly-set up menu of conventional Israeli meals at the side of modern-day, and this once we noticed that seventy seven% of Israelis choose to devour Israeli meals on a plane that reminds them of home.”