Originally Posted by orbitmic

I don't entirely agree: not so long ago, the hot panini was in fact available as an option for 'brunch' instead of the cold plate albeit accompanied by fruit plate etc. It was discontinued because passengers did not like it. In that sense, to me, this is not a new option but rather the reincarnation of what that was originally tried and failed, albeit now offered instead of the 'good' CE meals (lunch and dinner) and not just as an alternative to the 'bad' brunch.

My recent NCE CE flights included such meals as confit pork belly with Savoy cabbage and roasted root vegetables, cod filled with wasabi mash and grilled peppers, and a prawn curry and I have always mentioned that those CE meals were good, better than CW, although brunch and after tea were poor. I'm afraid I won't feel compelled to reserve judgement on whether any of the new offering is an improvement on such a route: it is plainly an obvious, major, unidirectional deterioration of the proposition and no amount of BA webpage PR will be able to disguise it regardless of their use of 'fresh', 'gourmet', 'inspiring' and other nonsensical adjectives.