Emirates serves up festive treats
Emirates is once again serving up a selection of classic Christmas dishes for passengers in all cabins
Throughout December, Emirates is serving festive meals and snacks in all cabins on select routes.
First and Business Class passengers can select from classic Christmas dishes, including lemon and herb marinated king prawns with fennel salad and marie rose sauce, while those Premium Economy Class can enjoy cured salmon gravadlax with mustard crème fraiche to start.
A full festive main course with all the trimmings - roasted turkey with cranberry compote, chestnut stuffing, pumpkin with honey and thyme, potato wedges and crunchy brussels sprouts peppered with turkey bacon - will be available in all three classes.
Desserts include a variety of dishes - Christmas pudding with a generous serving of crème anglaise, festive ginger cake smothered in dark chocolate ganache, or redcurrant chocolate mousse cake in the shape of Santa.
Economy Class passengers will also have a Christmas meal featuring roasted turkey with chestnut roulade, pommes Parisienne, a medley of parsnip, carrots, and green peas, followed by a gingerbread cake doused with cream cheese frosting and cinnamon sauce.
In the onboard A380 lounge amidst festive florals, passengers departing Dubai can relax with some fragrantly spiced mulled wine, mince pies, panettone, gingerbread ice cream, and Christmas-themed pastries.
From 24-26 December, the Emirates cabin crew will be offering mini gifts of cinnamon cream profiteroles, chocolate truffles and gingerbread Christmas trees and snowmen, to all passengers onboard.
Emirates' multi-award-winning inflight entertainment system ice features both nostalgic classics and contemporary Christmas songs and films. These include Silent Night starring Keira Knightley and 8-Bit Christmas starring Neil Patrick Harris, as well as Love Actually (2003), Last Christmas (2019), The Holiday (2006), Elf (2003), The Polar Express (2004) and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer from 1964. Festive TV specials include Friends: The Christmas Episodes, Gavin & Stacey: A Special Christmas, Big Bang Theory: The Christmas Episodes and The Great British Bake-Off: Christmas Special.
Every child passenger will be gifted with an Emirates giveaway onboard suitable for their age group, as well as the opportunity to make magical memories with family as Emirates cabin crew take pictures and share them in a festive-themed keepsake frame. In all cabin classes, children will be offered a soft Emirates blanket and pillow, and a creamy hot chocolate with marshmallows served directly to their seats.
In the onboard A380 lounge amidst festive florals, passengers departing Dubai can relax with some fragrantly spiced mulled wine, mince pies, panettone, gingerbread ice cream, and Christmas-themed pastries.
From December 24-26, the Emirates cabin crew will be offering mini gifts of cinnamon cream profiteroles, chocolate truffles and gingerbread Christmas trees and snowmen, to all passengers onboard.
The Christmas spirit is also being felt in Emirates Lounges in Dubai, where Business Class lounges will be serving warm and crumbly mince pies dashed with cream, traditional Stollen cake, soaked and spiced lady fingers with a Christmas dulce-whipped ganache, roasted chestnut and biscuit cake with a pop of lime and lemon sable. First Class Lounges will also have gingerbread profiteroles, dark chocolate salted caramel tarts and cinnamon baba au orange.
Drinks include Perrier’s winter white cosmo — festively flavored water, the aromatic flavors of a cinnamon cortado, toffee nut oat latte, gingerbread mocha — or a special festive tea brew by Dilmah: Charming magic or Christmas Holly Jolly.
