I hope someone who actually works at this company reads this. The food is vile to say the least. Absolutely disgusting. They should be ashamed of themselves. I wish there was negative stars this company should get it.
Drdonna Feldman
I recently flew United on a trip from Chicago to Tel Aviv and was served Regal kosher meals (according to the label, Regal is affiliated with Borenstein Caterers of Jamaica, NY). Although my flight was in September, I was served some kosher-for-Passover pre-packaged food. There were only two components of all the food service that were worth eating: the dinner side of lightly steamed green beans and the breakfast fresh fruit cup were very good. The salad with the dinner was overpopulated with green olives and had a dab of something red and an unidentifiable vegetable. I could not tell if the mushroom blintz, which was predominately potato, contained meat. The eggs looked very professional but barely tasted like eggs. How hard is it to ruin a simple egg dish?I took one bite of the eggs and asked a flight attendant for boiling water for the oatmeal packet I'd brought along in case of not getting a kosher meal.
Devorah
In this day and age, you should expect good kosher food on an airplane, cruise, etc. This is absolutely shameful for Borenstein to provide gross, inedible food. Shame on you for such a chillul Hashem!
SHEFA Catering
Food on Norwegian was not edible. Absolutely unacceptable.
Dayana Manashirova
Food is inedible. Shame on you for showcasing this "food" ( if you can even call it that ) as kosher food to the world.
Jane Vogel
Last time I order kosher food. Was served a breakfast of a cold scoop of oatmeal (?). It was green and the vilest thing I ever saw purporting to be food. Lunch was only slightly better. Even the roll was gross. The packages are next to impossible to open, especially on a plane.
Pedro Rod
Great airlines food services at jfk
Daysi Tapia
Best place to work, very polite bosses and freindly coworkers
hershel meisels
The best kosher airline food
Athena K.
Green peas side dish - you get a lot of green peas, and they are not mushy, but both times I've had them they haven't been cooked as much as peas are normally cooked. They were very al dente. No seasoning or salt or pepper and they seem a bit watery. If you have a choice, this is probably not the best one to make.Grilled mushrooms- this was a surprisingly good side, and I could see it going well with the Salisbury steak or the ribeye. Actually, scratch that, the ribeye is not that great. The mushrooms are dark, savory, a little salty, and very rich tasting. They were not soggy at all and had a bit of a bite to them still so you felt like you were eating something substantial.Basmati rice - You get a generous portion, the rice is fluffy but not salted at all. So far this is my favorite side dish.Chocolate pecan turtle brownie - absolutely the best dessert option I've tried. There's only a single pecan in the middle. But the brownie itself is great. Not too mushy, not too hard, not too sweet. Assorted cookies - you get three delicious butter cookies with various types of sprinkles. I got one with chocolate chips, one with rainbow sprinkles and one with some sort of strawberry type of sprinkle. These keep really well it and so they're a good choice for the times when you might need a snack later on.Coffed cake - this is a basic cinnamon flavored coffee cake with a texture that's a little strange because it's been frozen and some sort of crumble thing on top; it's not something I would go out of my way to eat, but when you don't have a lot of choices, it's a good second option if they are out of the pecan brownie.Blintzes with fruit compote - I had this for breakfast and it was way way too sweet for me for a morning meal. You get two blintzes. They are a little on the thick side with a very sweet filling that I think it was parve because it didn't really taste milky or creamy or anything like that. The fruit compote is basically blended strawberry jam with lots of sugar.Mushroom barley soup - an excellent choice for the soup course. It's not enough for an entire meal, but just enough for an appetizer. There is a generous portion of both mushrooms and what looked like beef, as well as barley. It's well seasoned and it's something that I would actually eat even if I wasn't being forced to eat frozen packaged kosher meals on a cruise with no other options.Matzah ball soup - avoid this if you can. It is literally a bowl of clear chicken broth with no salt or seasoning, and a single unseasoned and very waterlogged matzoh ball. You know how Sephardic people complain that Ashkenazis don't know how to cook with any sort of seasoning or spice? Well this soup basically proves them right. Even with two packets of salt and pepper it still had no flavor.Challah - It's a little tiny challah loaf, super cute and tasty. This was the only bread option on our kosher catered menu, so I had it pretty often. For frozen bread, it was actually pretty good.Kung pao chicken - this is a moderate serving of breaded fried pieces of chicken, mostly dark meat chicken, with a somewhat sweet and a little spicy sauce. The chili sauce had bits of what looked like red pepper in it, the sweet red pepper, as well as maybe some sort of onion or shallots. There was not nearly enough sauce for all of the chicken, and the sauce was the glopped on just one part of the tray. Turkey and gravy - just don't do it. Even if it's the only thing they have, ask for a couple of extra signs in place of your main dish, or eat an apple or something. Don't do that. It's salty, weirdly textured, and tastes very metallic. The people at the table next to me said it looked and smelled like dog food. They weren't just being rude, I complained about it first and said I thought it looked like cafeteria food and then one of them said, "well, I wasn't gonna say anything but since you've already decided not to eat anymore, we were thinking it looks like...." I d
I just got off a cruise with royal carribean. They should be ashamed of the horrible quality of the food. 95% was inedible. Hot dogs were green. Way to make kosher food an embarrassment. I also tried to reach them for two weeks to discuss ingredients and nobody answered or responded to my messages. I'm just so upset by how unprofessional this company is. No idea how they have a contract with a large cruise ship.
Moishe
Traveled on American Airlines first class and the served Borensteins Catered meals. Meals were very mediocre at best. Only the roll was edible.
ben meir
Shame on you people, this food is inedible and at times a health hazard, hands down the most disgusting food I've ever seen. We ordered kosher on a Norwegian Cruise, 99% was throw in the garbage, we actually preferred fasting over this garbage. I can't believe anybody buys their food a second time.
shelly sussman
We flew mint class JetBlue which is just about first class and we received food which was unedible.Strange combinations like half frozen fish with couscous and pineapple chunksSadly even the Napoleon was an edible. They do not respond to criticism and I don’t see them upgrading their food anytime soon but if you have to fly and you have to eat kosher better to bring your own food
George Patton
Airline meal was higher quality than expected, El Al caters their Mehadrin meals.
I hope someone who actually works at this company reads this. The food is vile to say the least. Absolutely disgusting. They should be ashamed of themselves. I wish there was negative stars this company should get it.
I recently flew United on a trip from Chicago to Tel Aviv and was served Regal kosher meals (according to the label, Regal is affiliated with Borenstein Caterers of Jamaica, NY). Although my flight was in September, I was served some kosher-for-Passover pre-packaged food. There were only two components of all the food service that were worth eating: the dinner side of lightly steamed green beans and the breakfast fresh fruit cup were very good. The salad with the dinner was overpopulated with green olives and had a dab of something red and an unidentifiable vegetable. I could not tell if the mushroom blintz, which was predominately potato, contained meat. The eggs looked very professional but barely tasted like eggs. How hard is it to ruin a simple egg dish?I took one bite of the eggs and asked a flight attendant for boiling water for the oatmeal packet I'd brought along in case of not getting a kosher meal.
In this day and age, you should expect good kosher food on an airplane, cruise, etc. This is absolutely shameful for Borenstein to provide gross, inedible food. Shame on you for such a chillul Hashem!
Food on Norwegian was not edible. Absolutely unacceptable.
Food is inedible. Shame on you for showcasing this "food" ( if you can even call it that ) as kosher food to the world.
Last time I order kosher food. Was served a breakfast of a cold scoop of oatmeal (?). It was green and the vilest thing I ever saw purporting to be food. Lunch was only slightly better. Even the roll was gross. The packages are next to impossible to open, especially on a plane.
Great airlines food services at jfk
Best place to work, very polite bosses and freindly coworkers
The best kosher airline food
Green peas side dish - you get a lot of green peas, and they are not mushy, but both times I've had them they haven't been cooked as much as peas are normally cooked. They were very al dente. No seasoning or salt or pepper and they seem a bit watery. If you have a choice, this is probably not the best one to make.Grilled mushrooms- this was a surprisingly good side, and I could see it going well with the Salisbury steak or the ribeye. Actually, scratch that, the ribeye is not that great. The mushrooms are dark, savory, a little salty, and very rich tasting. They were not soggy at all and had a bit of a bite to them still so you felt like you were eating something substantial.Basmati rice - You get a generous portion, the rice is fluffy but not salted at all. So far this is my favorite side dish.Chocolate pecan turtle brownie - absolutely the best dessert option I've tried. There's only a single pecan in the middle. But the brownie itself is great. Not too mushy, not too hard, not too sweet. Assorted cookies - you get three delicious butter cookies with various types of sprinkles. I got one with chocolate chips, one with rainbow sprinkles and one with some sort of strawberry type of sprinkle. These keep really well it and so they're a good choice for the times when you might need a snack later on.Coffed cake - this is a basic cinnamon flavored coffee cake with a texture that's a little strange because it's been frozen and some sort of crumble thing on top; it's not something I would go out of my way to eat, but when you don't have a lot of choices, it's a good second option if they are out of the pecan brownie.Blintzes with fruit compote - I had this for breakfast and it was way way too sweet for me for a morning meal. You get two blintzes. They are a little on the thick side with a very sweet filling that I think it was parve because it didn't really taste milky or creamy or anything like that. The fruit compote is basically blended strawberry jam with lots of sugar.Mushroom barley soup - an excellent choice for the soup course. It's not enough for an entire meal, but just enough for an appetizer. There is a generous portion of both mushrooms and what looked like beef, as well as barley. It's well seasoned and it's something that I would actually eat even if I wasn't being forced to eat frozen packaged kosher meals on a cruise with no other options.Matzah ball soup - avoid this if you can. It is literally a bowl of clear chicken broth with no salt or seasoning, and a single unseasoned and very waterlogged matzoh ball. You know how Sephardic people complain that Ashkenazis don't know how to cook with any sort of seasoning or spice? Well this soup basically proves them right. Even with two packets of salt and pepper it still had no flavor.Challah - It's a little tiny challah loaf, super cute and tasty. This was the only bread option on our kosher catered menu, so I had it pretty often. For frozen bread, it was actually pretty good.Kung pao chicken - this is a moderate serving of breaded fried pieces of chicken, mostly dark meat chicken, with a somewhat sweet and a little spicy sauce. The chili sauce had bits of what looked like red pepper in it, the sweet red pepper, as well as maybe some sort of onion or shallots. There was not nearly enough sauce for all of the chicken, and the sauce was the glopped on just one part of the tray. Turkey and gravy - just don't do it. Even if it's the only thing they have, ask for a couple of extra signs in place of your main dish, or eat an apple or something. Don't do that. It's salty, weirdly textured, and tastes very metallic. The people at the table next to me said it looked and smelled like dog food. They weren't just being rude, I complained about it first and said I thought it looked like cafeteria food and then one of them said, "well, I wasn't gonna say anything but since you've already decided not to eat anymore, we were thinking it looks like...." I d
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I just got off a cruise with royal carribean. They should be ashamed of the horrible quality of the food. 95% was inedible. Hot dogs were green. Way to make kosher food an embarrassment. I also tried to reach them for two weeks to discuss ingredients and nobody answered or responded to my messages. I'm just so upset by how unprofessional this company is. No idea how they have a contract with a large cruise ship.
Traveled on American Airlines first class and the served Borensteins Catered meals. Meals were very mediocre at best. Only the roll was edible.
Shame on you people, this food is inedible and at times a health hazard, hands down the most disgusting food I've ever seen. We ordered kosher on a Norwegian Cruise, 99% was throw in the garbage, we actually preferred fasting over this garbage. I can't believe anybody buys their food a second time.
We flew mint class JetBlue which is just about first class and we received food which was unedible.Strange combinations like half frozen fish with couscous and pineapple chunksSadly even the Napoleon was an edible. They do not respond to criticism and I don’t see them upgrading their food anytime soon but if you have to fly and you have to eat kosher better to bring your own food
Airline meal was higher quality than expected, El Al caters their Mehadrin meals.