Beginning Dec. 1, Delta One customers on flights from L.A. to Reagan National and L.A. to JFK Airport will get meals from Los Angeles-based chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo featuring what Delta calls dishes with farm-fresh, seasonal ingredients from L.A. area farms.
Here's an example of the fine dining Delta Air Lines customers can expect on some flights in December from Los Angeles-based chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo. (Courtesy Delta Air Lines)
Courtesy Delta Air Lines
Here's an example of the fine dining Delta Air Lines customers can expect on some flights in December from Los Angeles-based chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo. (Courtesy Delta Air Lines)
Courtesy Delta Air Lines
Here's an example of the fine dining Delta Air Lines customers can expect in December from Los Angeles-based chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo. (Courtesy Delta Air Lines)
Courtesy Delta Air Lines
Here's an example of the fine dining Delta Air Lines customers can expect on some flights in December from Los Angeles-based chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo. (Courtesy Delta Air Lines)
Courtesy Delta Air Lines
Here's an example of the fine dining Delta Air Lines customers can expect on some flights in December from Los Angeles-based chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo. (Courtesy Delta Air Lines)
Courtesy Delta Air Lines
Here's an example of the fine dining Delta Air Lines customers can expect on some flights in December from Los Angeles-based chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo. (Courtesy Delta Air Lines)
Courtesy Delta Air Lines
Here's an example of the fine dining Delta Air Lines customers can expect on some flights in December from Los Angeles-based chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo. (Courtesy Delta Air Lines)
Courtesy Delta Air Lines
Here's an example of the fine dining Delta Air Lines customers can expect on some flights in December from Los Angeles-based chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo. (Courtesy Delta Air Lines)
WASHINGTON — If you sit in the front of the plane on a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Reagan National Airport, you’ll get a farm-fresh, chef-driven meal put on your seat back tray.
Beginning Dec. 1, Delta One customers on flights from L.A. to Reagan National and L.A. to JFK Airport will get meals from Los Angeles-based chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo featuring what Delta calls dishes with farm-fresh, seasonal ingredients from L.A. area farms.
(The chef-inspired meals will be served on flights from LAX to DCA and JFK, but not on the return flights.)
The two chefs, who run a catering company, are behind popular Los Angeles restaurants Animal, Son of a Gun and Jon and Vinny’s.
“When we began cultivating our partnership with Jon and Vinny early on we talked about the importance of not just stamping their names on our menus,” said Delta’s vice president of on-board service, Lisa Bauer.
“It’s about partnering with chefs to create authentic, locally-sourced meals on board.”
The chef duo’s catering company, Caramelized Productions, will transport the meals daily to LAX.
You can eat well in the back of the plane on flights to and from DCA to LAX too.
Delta introduced free meals on a dozen of its longest domestic flights, including Reagan National to Los Angeles last year.
Jeff Clabaugh has spent 20 years covering the Washington region's economy and financial markets for WTOP as part of a partnership with the Washington Business Journal, and officially joined the WTOP newsroom staff in January 2016.
