Galleries First (Flounge) LHR: Dining menu and food options 2013

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Galleries First (Flounge) LHR: Dining menu and food options from 2 May 2013

BaxterStorey has been awarded the contract to supply catering to London and most UK domestic lounges. From 2 May 2013 their new menu was rolled out. You can see photos of the current offering in post number 78 or by clicking here.


Flounge Menu LHR: Entered service 2 May 2013

Breakfast

Please help yourself
For your convenience, there is a self-service buffet available for breakfast, including freshly grilled bacon, free range scrambled eggs, Dingley Dell pork sausages, grilled tomatoes, and farmhouse toast.

Brought to your table

Please order via one of our lounge hosts:

Traditional porridge oats served with honey and cinnamon

Cured kippers served with poached egg

Great British breakfast sandwich with grilled back bacon and fried egg on a toasted wholemeal bloomer

Boiled egg with toasted toasted soldiers

(note that nothing is marked as vegetarian, but I guess the boiled egg and porridge must be).

Note that you can swap items around a bit, so it's OK to ask for kippers and fried eggs, for example.

Rest of the Day
Noon to close

Please help yourself
For your convenience, there is a self-service buffet available, including a selection of fresh salads, hot dishes and indulgent treats


Brought to your table
Please order via one of our lounge hosts

Hot sandwiches
- salt beef, red cabbage and dill pickle baguette
- roasted Mediterranean vegetables with fresh basil and mozzarella in ciabatta

Classic Caesar salad

BA burger with sea salt and cracked pepper (potato) wedges

Poached salmon, crushed new potatoes with horseradish and sorrel cream sauce

Szechuan chicken with wok fried vegetables.

Desserts

Elderflower panacotta with seasonal berry compote

Délice chocolate opera - chocolate and almond opera, with a passion fruit sorbet

British cheese board - Applewood, Long Clawson Stilton, Denhay cheddar, Bath Oliver biscuits, with chutney, quince jelly.

My experience is that the precise selection of cheeses will alter somewhat, and some may come from somewhere which hasn't been British for quite a while, but it's all good.


Buffet items - serve yourself

These items change. Here's a flavour of what to expect.

Salad Bar

Red and white quinoa
Paster and sun blushed tomato
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Couscous
Mixed bean salad
Lettuce bowl
Pasta

Self serve hot buffet bar

Pasta with basil and tomato sauce
Mustard chicken
Beef Bourguinon
Red Thai vegetable curry
Chilli con carne

Self serve desserts

Key lime pie
Baked Sicilian lemon cheesecake

Cakes
Now available from 12:30 until approx 18 hrs.

Scones with Roddas clotted cream and jam
Fruit loaf
Carrot cake
Madeira cake
Victoria sponge cake (see photo in post 78, quite massive)

Hot drinks
Bean to cup coffee, premium tea selection and hot chocolate

The refreshers
Fresh squeezes of the day, mineral waters and soft drinks

Grazing options
Other food available in the lounge, in no particular order: lightly salted kettle chips, nibble jars (e.g. savoury mix, wasabi beans), Island Bakery Organics biscuits (again in Avery jars), sliced meats and salamis (chorizo, Wiltshire Honey Roast ham, Salami Napoli), cheese and cheese biscuits. In the morning there is a cereal range, Weetabix, stewed and dried fruit, bread rolls. Sandwiches are also available from lunchtime onwards.

Photographs are in several postings below, notably posts number 78, 88 and 107.

Commentary:
The food to order menu looks good, and the buffet options are a modest improvement, particularly the salads and the self service dessert (something of a run away success on day one, it quickly ran out of stock). However there is very little scope for pilfering now, since there are only a few wrapped items around (Kettle chips to be precise, and they seem to be in short supply). There is a lot of empty shelves now, for example the cereal bar used to be permanently stocked, but as of 7pm today it is empty. My suspicion is that there is some further food options held by security, so at this stage airside stock levels are a bit low.

See above wiki for links for other lounges. There is a well developed thread for 2012 which you can find here, it has many photos and reviews in it:
Galleries First (Flounge): Dining menu and food options


Posting update
16 Jan 2013 - Original post, first new menu of 2013
12 March 2013 - note about beef supply issues.
2 May 2013 - updated with the new BaxterStorey menu. [url="http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/20687819-post48.html"]The previous menu can be found in this post
5 May 2013 - minor corrections
7 May 2013 - photo information.
29 May 2013 - updates
2 June 2013 - cake and other updates /corrections.

[opalfruit]

The burger persists.

[abfab80]

Originally Posted by opalfruit

The burger persists.

Hopefully, no horse meat on those one !

[Private Pyle]

Originally Posted by abfab80

Hopefully, no horse meat on those one !

Horse meat would be an improvement.
Have you tried horse meat?

[Tobias-UK]

Originally Posted by opalfruit

The burger persists.

That's because, despite the constant complaints here, it is very popular.

[BoeBus]

I have had better burgers in McDonalds. Never had so much gristle as in the Flounge "burger"

[DWFI]

Originally Posted by BoeBus

I have had better burgers in McDonalds. Never had so much gristle as in the Flounge "burger"

It's not bad if they do it right. Unfortunately they don't do that too often.

[dera]

Pork Wonton is gone, thats a shame

I bet the GF staff have already heard every horse burger joke by now

[BAg Lady]

I had the Beef Rendang curry in the T3 Flounge and it was exceptionally good, possibly the best curry I have ever had

[Land-of-Miles]

Originally Posted by DWFI

It's not bad if they do it right. Unfortunately they don't do that too often.

Just doing it hot would work for me. Who wants to eat a tepid almost cold burger and wedges?

[Joely]

Not being someone who has visited the lounge before but may be doing soon, is it just the beef burger that's bad or is all the made to order stuff ropey?

[Land-of-Miles]

Originally Posted by Joely

Not being someone who has visited the lounge before but may be doing soon, is it just the beef burger that's bad or is all the made to order stuff ropey?

You get the distinct feeling that some of the "made to order" stuff is hoiked off a similar buffet arrangement in a back room or is left for some time after being prepared before being delivered.

[Kgmm77]

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The burger and wedges can only be mediocre at best given the 'elf & safety prohibition on open grilling and deep frying.

[Land-of-Miles]

Originally Posted by Kgmm77

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The burger and wedges can only be mediocre at best given the 'elf & safety prohibition on open grilling and deep frying.

They could be hot however if they were freshly cooked.

[soy]

glad to see the beef rendang retained