Once we arrived at the airport, we first had to return the car and then walk to check-in. As expected, there was not much going on at the First counter and we were done quite quickly. We were sent to security checkpoint 3. I was irritated at first because there was no priority lane there, but it was relatively empty. After the usual annoying check, I understood why they had sent us here. We were right next to the AA Flagship Lounge.
This time the experience was different from the last visit. The agent greeted us with underem F-ticket very friendly and we were asked if we wanted to take advantage of the first class dining. We said yes and the agent escorted us to the dining room inside the flagship lounge. This had nothing to do with the ghastly Admirals lounge that shares the first floor reception area.
As you know from other F-lounges, the dining room is basically a restaurant. The decor is pretty.

The menu is sufficiently large with some interesting dishes.


First, an amuse bouche and a rather fancy bread.


Snapper Ceviche

I'm not a big fan of sweet potatoes, but the dish was coherent and the fish was good. On hot days definitely a good refreshment to start.
For our second appetizer, we chose Coconut Shrimp.

For our main course, we both went with the Lobster Linguine. The dish was okay.

Now there was the dessert menu.

That didn't totally appeal to me, I took the Flan. It was good.

GF took the tiramisu. The waiter said it was their healthiest dessert on the menu. I thought it was a joke at first. What we had missed was that it was made with vegan mascarpone. Unfortunately, that didn't taste good at all and I got in trouble for persuading GF to try the tiramisu instead of the flan like me....

You can't expect a star meal here, but it's certainly a good thing before you take off. I personally found the food in the Concorde Room a bit better on this trip. But that came later.
A view of the general lounge.


Here there was also compared to the grotty Admirals lounge a buffet with real food that I have not photographed, however, because we were in a hurry. It was but from the first glance nothing outstanding. But I assume anyway that all real First passengers will use the Flagship dining and the buffet is for the status customers.