Overview
Cloud Nine business class meal service runs as a full multi-course experience: a seasonal garden salad and seafood appetizer to start, a plated main course, a cheese selection, and a dessert course, served with artisan bread rolls and French butter.
Crew traditionally welcome Cloud Nine passengers aboard with “Tenaystiligne,” an Amharic greeting, before taking coats and offering a pre-departure drink of juice, water or Champagne.
Menus
Menus rotate by route, but Ethiopian’s own inflight menu tool shows exactly what’s served on specific flights.
Here’s a real example from a recent Addis Ababa–Lomé–New York routing:
| Course | Examples |
|---|---|
| Starter | Pan-fried prawns and smoked salmon served on an injera base with tartar sauce; or a couscous salad with grilled vegetables and olives |
| Ethiopian National Dish | Doro Wot (spicy chicken stew), Yebeg Alicha (turmeric lamb stew), Ethiopian Beef Tibs, Miser Key Wot (spicy lentil stew), or Atikilt Wot (mixed vegetable) |
| International Main | Beef tenderloin with potato cake and balsamic beef jus; Cajun chicken breast; seafood rigatoni with calamari, scallops and prawns; or a Ghanaian red bean sweet potato stew |
| Dessert | Ice cream, pistachio cake, cheese selection, or fresh seasonal fruit |
On longer routings with a second lighter service, expect dishes like General Tso’s chicken with egg fried rice, lamb kofta kebab with grilled zucchini, or a smoked salmon and fennel salad starter, alongside a lighter dessert such as lavender white chocolate mousse cake.
Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony
Ethiopian Airlines serves Ethiopian coffee, grown in the country widely credited as coffee’s birthplace, with every business class meal. Onboard, this means freshly brewed Ethiopian coffee, Nescafé, cappuccino, and Italian espresso, available on the 777, 787 and A350 fleets specifically.
Beverages
The full wine, spirit and cocktail list, verified directly from Ethiopian Airlines’ own inflight menu.
| Champagne & Wine | |
|---|---|
| Champagne | Trouillard Brut Extra Sélection |
| Rosé | Rosé d’Anjou (French) |
| White Wine | Le Courier Chenin Blanc (South African), Ohh! Poitou Sauvignon Blanc (French), Bottega Chardonnay Trevenezie (Italian), Félix Solís The Guv’nor (Spanish) |
| Red Wine | Rift Valley Syrah (Ethiopian), Backsberg Cabernet Sauvignon (South African), M. de Magnol Barton & Guestier (French), M. Chapoutier Belleruche Côtes-du-Rhône (French), Just Roberto Valpolicella Ripasso (Italian), Félix Solís Mucho Más Tinto (Spanish), Diora Monterey Pinot Noir (American) |
| Dessert Wine | Sandeman Ruby Port (Portuguese), Lakeview Cellars Vidal Ice-Wine (Canadian) |
| Beer, Spirits & Cocktails | |
|---|---|
| Beer | Carlsberg (regular and non-alcoholic), Habesha |
| Spirits | Chivas Regal, Bombay Sapphire Gin, Johnnie Walker Black Label, Absolut Vodka, Grey Goose Vodka |
| Liqueurs | Baileys, Bénédictine, Cointreau, Espresso Bottega, Rémy Martin VSOP, Tia Maria |
| Cocktails | Bloody Mary, Negroni, Screwdriver, Mimosa, plus a Mojito, Iced Tea and Iced Coffee selection |