A few words about the food...

Mmmm. This is delicious.

So here is the way that meals work on the train; breakfast is served between 6:30-8:30 first come first serve while lunch and dinner you need a reservation for one of two time slots. 

Each meal contains four options for the main course. At breakfast there was a different specialty ommelette and pancake each day as well as a continental and trans-continental option. Tea, coffee and juice were provided at all meals. Breakfast came out in record time and was well worth getting up that early.

At lunch there was generally a sammich, a salad, a vegetarian option and a seafood option. It also came with a soup and dessert.

Rachel's lunch (below) is turkey and bacon open faced sandwich with spinach, Brie and apple on ciabatta.

Dinner seemed to be a much more formal affair with a starter (soup or salad), four coices between lamb, beef, fish and a pasta. They served alcohol at dinner (at a reasonable price with a decent selection) and included a dessert as well.

I tried to get a picture of Rachel's dinner (above) but it was too delicious and she couldn't wait and began eating!

I had a delicious four cheese pasta with zucchini and red peppers.

Also, as a side note, the inbound train from Vancouver hit a herd of cattle so the running joke all night was that dinner was catch of the day, beef au jus.

Rachel would like it pointed out that there is a vast difference between economy and sleeper class, even when it comes to the coffee.

Generally we were very pleased with the meals, however, it was very interesting how they put you at a table with strangers to make polite chitty-chat during the meals. We met lots of terribly interesting people, one loud jackass and one bitchcake.