First, let’s be clear that the opinions I share with you are based on just a few meals served under very different conditions. There are still just two people—the chef and a helper— working in the lower level of the Superliner dining car. That’s barely enough now, but will be inadequate when this pandemic ends,…
When it comes to food service on Amtrak trains, confusion abounds. All the statements coming out of Amtrak over the past year or so are part of the problem because most of us assume, probably correctly, that each was carefully crafted and approved by upper level management to make it all sound better than it…
Hi Jim! I am on the Capitol Limited this evening, sleeper service. The new food is a disaster. I will be direct: The beef whatever is microwaved, burned on one side to the point of sticking to the plate, cold on the other. Tasteless, limp excuse for veggies and the salad is lettuce with one…
Amtrak has apparently bowed to pressure from the traveling public, from RPA, and from most of the rest of the civilized world and they have overhauled the “contemporary dining” food service on the Lake Shore Limited and the Capitol Limited. There is a new menu—and I’m sure most of us veterans of the long-distance…