Delta Air Lines has refreshed its onboard menus for the summer season with new dishes, wines and the return and expansion of old favourites.
Dishes such as shrimp and grits, with spicy Creole sauce and scallions, created in partnership with James Beard award-winning chef Mashama Bailey, have been introduced on additional international and domestic routes.
These were previously offered exclusively on flights out of Atlanta but have been expanded due to “overwhelmingly positive customer feedback”.
Meanwhile, Delta’s wine menu has been updated to include five varietals each in both domestic and international Delta One.
“The wonderful thing about travel is that we experience new places, cultures and culinary explorations,” said Andrea Robinson, Master Sommelier and Delta Wine Consultant.
“Delta does a great job bringing that ethos onboard with their wine programme highlighting both classic regions as well as up-and-comers.”
The airline is also continuing its successful partnership with women-owned and women-made wine brand Une Femme, bringing its first-ever still wine cans onboard, available in Delta Comfort and Delta Main.
After receiving overwhelmingly positive customer and employee feedback from a limited trial, Delta has made the Farmer’s Fridge items the standard Fresh Flight Fuel option on flights over 1500 miles departing Los Angeles.
Customers can choose from a variety of chef-curated meals from either the morning or afternoon and evening assortments.
Cheez-It baked snack crackers, a passenger favourite snack, have been brought back this summer while another favourite, the Shake Shack burger, has been rolled out on routes to eight new cities, including Detroit.
Delta First customers flying on routes more than 900 miles can now enjoy Shake Shack’s Cheeseburger onboard, complete with 100% Angus beef, a toasted potato bun, ShackSauce and toppings, Crinkle Cut Potato Chips and a rich dark chocolate brownie with crunch cocoa nibs and flaky seat salt, inspired by Shake Shack’s Shack Attack Concrete and developed by the Shake Shack team specifically for this partnership.
The expansion makes the Shake Shack burgers available in a total of 13 markets, including each of Delta’s hub cities.
