Dinner In Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse JFK

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After we visited the Air India Lounge and both JFK T4 Delta SkyClubs, we returned to Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse ahead of our Virgin flight to London for dinner.

We were warmly welcomed back to the lounge and had a couple hours before our flight departed. Agustine said he was hungry so we headed over to the restaurant and grabbed a window seat looking out on our aircraft, a sleek Airbus A330-900neo that had just arrived.

The food in this lounge is very good. I began with a salad featuring baby kale, shaved Brussels sprouts, and quinoa with toasted almonds, roasted New York apples, squash, and a sherry – dijon vinaigrette. It was a delicious appetizer.

For my main course, I ordered roast Atlantic salmon, served with a brown butter parsnip purree, harissa roasted carrots, and pesto…it was perfect…the sort of onboard airline meal I can only hope for.

I also had a side of mac ’n cheese with it, which included truffled wild mushrooms and a parmesan breadcrumb topping.

Augustine, meanwhile, decided after examining the menu that he only wanted dessert…and ordered a Clubhouse signature cookie with pistachio, dark chocolate, and sea salt, and vanilla ice cream.

Yeah…not the type of diet we are trying to encourage…but this is a special trip and at least he had eaten a bowl of chicken noodle soup with vegetables in the Delta Lounge.

I had a Negroni with dinner but skipped an after-dinner coffee so that I could fall asleep faster on the flight.

I was very happy to spend so much time in this lounge and look forward to returning. The SkyTeam Elite Plus status I have with SAS is going to make this mostly economy class trip much more bearable.