Just flew Platinum - Very disappointed

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I havent been flying a lot in the past 7 months. Since january flew to Europe twice (returned First from London) once to HKG (returned First from HKG) and now in NY.

I just landed this morning on LY027 and was VERY VERY VERY dissapointed with what is left with ELAL PLATINUM.
Its missing the the extra feeling the class used to have. I felt the same on the outbound flight to HKG and I felt it again last night. The thing i was most disappointed with was the meal:

1. First course had a small salad and a medium sized plate with a SMALL portion of Tuna Salad and some antipasti. Tuna salad is not clasy for dinner. Wasnt very nice looking, the tuna salad and the antipasti only covered a third of the plate, the rest of the plate of empty. The salad was small, the greens in the salad were not very interesting the the dressing was not so good. My neighbour had a Special Kosher meal which looked much much better. I noticied my meal was prepared by TAMAM, EL AL has two cateres from TLV (TAMAM and ELCHEF). It always seems the TAMAM meals are BAD.
2. I was also disappointed that there were no options for salad dressings, no olive oil and balsamic/lemon. Some airlines have these cute small olive oils they give out with nice bread and sea salt. - The most depressing thing on the tray was the cheap salt and pepper sacks. they were the typical paper sacks you see in any Economy class.
The tray did not look good, and I have seen better trays with more choice in Economy on some airlines. Its a late night flight, and I was surprised they dont invest on more starters and tappas style food. (like in FIRST)
3. they did have three options for main course Chicken, Salmon and Ravioli - But I think its time they invest in new options.

Breakfast - was much better, but not so interesting choice of breads and choice for food. They allow a choice between slad or omelette. I asked them for the omelette with a bit of salad onthe side - i think they should give both "large" salad and omolette. I also think they should give a large bowl for anyone that wants to mix the granola with yoghoirt and fruits.
That tuna salad from dinner should be offered for breakfast. They also had some cream cheece and smoked salmon, which is pointless without bagels.

The service by the flight crew was very good as usual.

The new Platinum seats are cramped and a bit too short for me. I want to see what they will do once DL has their new flat seats in all 772 and CO come out with new BusinessFirst.
First was EMPTY, one pax.
They should have those First seats as Platinum and have only half the 777/744 have new suite style First seats for LY001, 005, 075, 315. Those are the only flights that really need First Class.