Nov 14, 2015, 11:21 am
Last edit by: flyoff
The facility to choose your main course meal before you fly (when travelling First, Club World and World Traveller Plus) is available on the following routes on flights departing from London:
London Heathrow to Accra, Amman, Atlanta, Austin, Bahrain, Baltimore, Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, Beirut, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Calgary, Cape Town, Chengdu, Chicago, Dallas, Delhi, Denver, Doha, Dubai, Durban, Hong Kong, Houston, Hyderabad, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Madras, Mexico, Miami, Montreal, Mumbai, Muscat, Nairobi, Narita, Nassau, New York (JFK and Newark), Philadelphia, Phoenix, Rio De Janeiro, Riyadh, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose (California), Sao Paulo, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Tokyo (Haneda and Narita), Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington DC.
London Gatwick to Antigua, Barbados, Bermuda, Cancun, Cape Town, Costa Rica, New York (JFK), Kingston, Lima, Male, Mauritius, Orlando, Punta Cana, Saint Lucia, San Jose (Costa Rica), Tampa, and Trinidad and Tobago
Meal selection will be from the on-board menu; pre-selection is available between 30 days and 24 hours before your flight
Meal selection is only for the main course of the main meal. However, you can click on the menu link to see the full main meal menu.
Starters and desserts cannot be pre-ordered. Items from the second meals cannot be viewed or pre-ordered.
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London Heathrow to Accra, Amman, Atlanta, Austin, Bahrain, Baltimore, Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, Beirut, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Calgary, Cape Town, Chengdu, Chicago, Dallas, Delhi, Denver, Doha, Dubai, Durban, Hong Kong, Houston, Hyderabad, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Madras, Mexico, Miami, Montreal, Mumbai, Muscat, Nairobi, Narita, Nassau, New York (JFK and Newark), Philadelphia, Phoenix, Rio De Janeiro, Riyadh, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose (California), Sao Paulo, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Tokyo (Haneda and Narita), Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington DC.
London Gatwick to Antigua, Barbados, Bermuda, Cancun, Cape Town, Costa Rica, New York (JFK), Kingston, Lima, Male, Mauritius, Orlando, Punta Cana, Saint Lucia, San Jose (Costa Rica), Tampa, and Trinidad and Tobago
Meal selection will be from the on-board menu; pre-selection is available between 30 days and 24 hours before your flight
Meal selection is only for the main course of the main meal. However, you can click on the menu link to see the full main meal menu.
Starters and desserts cannot be pre-ordered. Items from the second meals cannot be viewed or pre-ordered.
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The main course pre-order choice thread
Oct 25, 2016, 1:48 pm
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Oct 25, 2016, 2:19 pm
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Oct 26, 2016, 3:37 am
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Originally Posted by Choose your main course
Buttered chicken and vegetable sabzi with jeera pilau
I have no idea what sabzi and jeera are. Maybe I'm just not 'metropolitan Waterside' enough. Why do BA put stuff like this on their menu, without illustration or explanation, that I would wager most of their customers would have to google ?
'Chicken and vegetable sabzi' (as in 'chicken and vegetable stew'), or 'Chicken, with a side of vegetable sabzi' ?
Anyone able to explain what this is ? Is it any good ?
Oct 26, 2016, 3:45 am
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Just looking at booking a meal for a flight next week and this is on the menu.
I have no idea what sabzi and jeera are. Maybe I'm just not 'metropolitan Waterside' enough. Why do BA put stuff like this on their menu, without illustration or explanation, that I would wager most of their customers would have to google ?
'Chicken and vegetable sabzi' (as in 'chicken and vegetable stew'), or 'Chicken, with a side of vegetable sabzi' ?
Anyone able to explain what this is ? Is it any good ?
I have no idea what sabzi and jeera are. Maybe I'm just not 'metropolitan Waterside' enough. Why do BA put stuff like this on their menu, without illustration or explanation, that I would wager most of their customers would have to google ?
'Chicken and vegetable sabzi' (as in 'chicken and vegetable stew'), or 'Chicken, with a side of vegetable sabzi' ?
Anyone able to explain what this is ? Is it any good ?
Although as far as I'm aware, "sabzi" actually means vegetables, so technically it's "buttered chicken with vegetable vegetables"!?
Oct 26, 2016, 4:09 am
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Here's a photo, this is the LGW version (back in July to Costa Rica), and my attempts to get a LHR version have been foiled by BA repeatedly pushing me into the forward cabin, but I enjoyed this dish, it's got strong flavours whilst being on the mild side of spicy.
EDIT: See also post 615 below.
Last edited by corporate-wage-slave; Oct 31, 2016 at 8:08 pm
Oct 26, 2016, 4:24 am
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It's a bit like the American's insistence of saying that things are served "with au jus". It always reminds me of the film Mickey Blue Eyes where the family restaurant is called "The la Trattoria"
Oct 26, 2016, 4:59 am
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So, dish ordered. I shall endeavour to post a picture.
Oct 26, 2016, 8:28 am
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But his meal definitely didn't look like this photo, so maybe he got something different with the same name.
Oct 26, 2016, 8:32 am
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I was hoping the bacon muffin/roll on my recent YVR-LHR flight would be decent, but there was some kind of scrambled egg/omelette thing stuffed in with it. I'm allergic to egg so I had to decline. Flights back from the USA and Canada do seem to be rather egg-centric, when it comes to breakfast.
Oct 26, 2016, 10:19 am
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My partner ordered it on a recent flight and it looked quite different. He wasn't very impressed and said it was tasteless and worse than a supermarket curry - bearing in mind he likes his curry medium to hot.
But his meal definitely didn't look like this photo, so maybe he got something different with the same name.
But his meal definitely didn't look like this photo, so maybe he got something different with the same name.
cws mentioned that his was from LGW so while I assumed we'd get the same from LHR and changed my pre-order from beef to the chicken, I'm now a bit worried that perhaps the LHR version may be quite differently prepared? (I never fly long haul from LGW so I genuinely do not know if they have the same or different catering).
Oct 28, 2016, 4:28 am
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BA283 LHR-LAX F - November
Choices below... Any tips ?
Seared Aberdeen Angus beef fillet, Jacobs ladder, artichoke potato dauphinoise, artichoke barigoule and chanterelle mushroom with rosemary jus
Roasted North Atlantic cod with celeriac, cavolo nero, cockle salsa and fresh clams
Roasted corn fed chicken ham hock and potato tartlet, haricot bean purée, runner beans with chicken and truffle jus
Fusilli pasta with Taleggio cheese, herb crème fraîche, girolle mushroom and crisp garlic croutons
Main course salad of seared prawns with red pesto potato, green bean salad and smoked tomato dressing
Seared Aberdeen Angus beef fillet, Jacobs ladder, artichoke potato dauphinoise, artichoke barigoule and chanterelle mushroom with rosemary jus
Roasted North Atlantic cod with celeriac, cavolo nero, cockle salsa and fresh clams
Roasted corn fed chicken ham hock and potato tartlet, haricot bean purée, runner beans with chicken and truffle jus
Fusilli pasta with Taleggio cheese, herb crème fraîche, girolle mushroom and crisp garlic croutons
Main course salad of seared prawns with red pesto potato, green bean salad and smoked tomato dressing
Oct 28, 2016, 4:30 am
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Choices below... Any tips ?
Seared Aberdeen Angus beef fillet, Jacobs ladder, artichoke potato dauphinoise, artichoke barigoule and chanterelle mushroom with rosemary jus
Roasted North Atlantic cod with celeriac, cavolo nero, cockle salsa and fresh clams
Roasted corn fed chicken ham hock and potato tartlet, haricot bean purée, runner beans with chicken and truffle jus
Fusilli pasta with Taleggio cheese, herb crème fraîche, girolle mushroom and crisp garlic croutons
Main course salad of seared prawns with red pesto potato, green bean salad and smoked tomato dressing
Seared Aberdeen Angus beef fillet, Jacobs ladder, artichoke potato dauphinoise, artichoke barigoule and chanterelle mushroom with rosemary jus
Roasted North Atlantic cod with celeriac, cavolo nero, cockle salsa and fresh clams
Roasted corn fed chicken ham hock and potato tartlet, haricot bean purée, runner beans with chicken and truffle jus
Fusilli pasta with Taleggio cheese, herb crème fraîche, girolle mushroom and crisp garlic croutons
Main course salad of seared prawns with red pesto potato, green bean salad and smoked tomato dressing
I've not had the pasta but saw it and it looked unpleasantly heavy to me (not a surprise given the description in fairness).