San Pedro is a port city, and the private jet menu starts at the quay. Fish arrives from the Atlantic side of the Bas-Sassandra District and decides what an inflight menu can honestly promise on a given day. Private jet food here leans on grilled and braised fish, kedjenou-style slow-cooked chicken, attieke (fermented cassava semolina), alloco (fried plantain) and tropical fruit that is ripe locally. These are local specialities, and each one has to survive a galley: the fish is cooked and boxed for the oven, the attieke travels chilled and is re-plated cold, the alloco is packed apart so it stays crisp. Private jet platters of fruit and cold cuts suit the cabin that wants something light after a long leg; gourmet inflight meals of braised chicken or fish suit the long sector out of San Pedro; private jet snacks like roasted cashews, coconut and peanuts come from the same region. We keep the sauce in its own pot, and we tell you when something is out of season rather than substituting quietly.
Bas-Sassandra is cocoa, coffee, rubber and sea, and the local table reflects that. For an inflight menu out of San Pedro we draw on what the port markets carry: line fish, prawns, plantain, cassava, yam, aubergine, peanuts and tropical fruit. Private jet menu items are chosen for how they behave in a galley oven, not only for how they taste on land. Attieke and fish make a classic Ivorian pairing and travel well, with the fish finished in the oven and the cassava re-plated cold. Local specialities such as kedjenou, a covered slow-cook of chicken and vegetables, reheat cleanly. Private jet platters of papaya, pineapple and mango, gourmet inflight meals built on grilled catch, and private jet snacks of cashews and banana chips round out the offer. Anything with a strong chili comes with the heat on the side.