Kostroma Oblast has a table of its own, and a private jet menu built here starts from it. Kostroma is Russia's cheese town, so a board of local hard and soft cheeses, with rye bread and honey, makes one of the most dependable private jet platters for a cold lunch. Volga fish, pike-perch and sturgeon, can be baked or cured and packed as a cold plate or finished in the galley oven, the kind of gourmet inflight meals passengers remember. Pelmeni and pirozhki travel well for a hot inflight menu: the pelmeni go in with their broth or butter apart, the pirozhki straight into the oven. Wild mushrooms, cranberries and lingonberries from the oblast give private jet food a seasonal edge, and kvass or berry mors replace the usual soft drink. For private jet snacks, we pack dried fruit, honey cake and small rye crisps. These local specialities are priced per menu and ordered with the trip, and last-minute orders are handled.
Think of the Volga when you plan a private jet menu for Kostroma. River fish is the signature: pike-perch fillet served chilled, smoked sturgeon sliced for a canapé board, fish soup in a sealed pot for the galley. The oblast's dairy tradition supplies the cheese, sour cream and butter that turn plain bread into private jet food worth eating at altitude. Blini with caviar or smoked salmon are among the private jet platters we pack for morning departures, with the toppings sealed apart so nothing softens. A gourmet inflight meal here might be beef stroganoff in a re-platable portion, while private jet snacks run to pastila apple confectionery, nuts and honey. The inflight menu changes with the season: mushrooms and berries in autumn, light salads in summer. Kostroma Oblast produce, our local specialities, ordered with the flight.