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
Nov 29, 2017, 4:31 am
#1081
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2014
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 12,255
F Menu LHR-LAS 27/12
Starters
- Devonshire hand picked crab, sautéed tiger prawn with avocado and tomato salsa
- Croxton manor goat curd with verjus marinated Cheltenham beetroot, candied walnut and onion Madeleines
- French onion soup with parmesan and paprika straw
- Fresh seasonal salad with a choice of Damson and Juniper dressing or honey mustard dressing
Main
- Chicken tikka masala with coriander rice, tadka dal and cauliflower pakora
- Braised British beef with potato dauphinoise, roast parsnip, buttered kale and truffle jus
- Pan fried North Atlantic cod fillet, lobster ravioli with shellfish sauce
- Chestnut and pumpkin nut roast, chateau potatoes, sautéed sprouts with onion and tomato gravy
- Main course salad of chargrilled cornfed chicken with bacon lardons, potato straws and Caesar dressing
Desserts
- Toffee chocolate cylinder served with a crisp nut mix
- Warm apple and blackberry crumble
- Madagascan vanilla ice cream
Cheese Plate
- Lincolnshire Poacher
- WensleyDale Blue
- Camembert Somerset
- Vintage Gouda
Thinking braised beef, as it should be tender, unlike overdone fillet steak...
Starters sound tasty
Nov 29, 2017, 4:33 am
#1082
Join Date: Jul 2015
Programs: UA Platinum, Starbucks Gold
Posts: 873
I am flying LHR-EWR in F mid-December and have tried several times to pre-order my main but I keep being told on the website that due to a technical problem the selection process in unavailable and I'll be able to order onboard. Has anyone else encountered this/am I clicking on the wrong thing?
Nov 29, 2017, 6:05 am
#1083
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: The Island. UK
Programs: BAEC Silver/Hilton Diamond/IHG Spire
Posts: 351
I am flying LHR-EWR in F mid-December and have tried several times to pre-order my main but I keep being told on the website that due to a technical problem the selection process in unavailable and I'll be able to order onboard. Has anyone else encountered this/am I clicking on the wrong thing?
Nov 29, 2017, 1:45 pm
#1084
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow.
Programs: BA Gold!/OWE
Posts: 177
Have just checked and same menu to ORD in a couple of weeks. Had the stone bass back in August (and an almost identical menu) and wasn't overly impressed - it was very bland. Have had similar dishes to the pork belly and beef before too, so will probably go for the salad as well.
Nov 29, 2017, 5:00 pm
#1085
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 106
The menu below was also served for LHR to YYZ.
App - I tried them all. The potato and leek soup was the best one, quite tasty.
Main - had the stone bass - awful, fish fillet was large but very dry and without flavour. Akin to eating a mouthful of cotton pads. Please order anything else.
Dessert - had the apple tart. Very good! I also had the cheese plate later ... all the cheeses were lovely.
I would like to add that this was the first time I flew BA First. I found it to be quite lacking in comparison to LH First. There was no caviar and the food quality was lacking. Service was friendly but you could sense a rush as the BA Cabin had many more passengers than LH Cabin. The lavs are deplorable and are just regular tiny lavs, no differentiation from economy. The Cabin was looking a bit tired and the seats were similar to business class seats. Overall I would not consider this to be a first class experience, rather a business class experience. To be fair, LH charges significantly more so I guess you get what you pay for.
App - I tried them all. The potato and leek soup was the best one, quite tasty.
Main - had the stone bass - awful, fish fillet was large but very dry and without flavour. Akin to eating a mouthful of cotton pads. Please order anything else.
Dessert - had the apple tart. Very good! I also had the cheese plate later ... all the cheeses were lovely.
I would like to add that this was the first time I flew BA First. I found it to be quite lacking in comparison to LH First. There was no caviar and the food quality was lacking. Service was friendly but you could sense a rush as the BA Cabin had many more passengers than LH Cabin. The lavs are deplorable and are just regular tiny lavs, no differentiation from economy. The Cabin was looking a bit tired and the seats were similar to business class seats. Overall I would not consider this to be a first class experience, rather a business class experience. To be fair, LH charges significantly more so I guess you get what you pay for.
BA279 London to San Jose (CA) 12:50
See the menus below for the meals you'll be served on your flight.Starters
See the menus below for the meals you'll be served on your flight.Starters
- Severn and Wye orange and fennel cured gravadlax Scottish salmon , salmon tartare and dill crème fraîche
- Vegetarian red quinoa Scotch egg with truffle cream, pickled girolle mushroom and artichoke salad
- Leek and potato soup with buckwheat and chives
- Fresh seasonal salad with a choice of classic olive oil vinaigrette dressing or Caesar dressing
- Braised British beef with herbed polenta chips, salt beef buttered cabbage, roasted beetroot, tenderstem broccoli and port jus
- Pan fried stone bass with tomato and bean cassoulet, wilted spinach and roasted baby fennel
- Pork belly with braised pork cheek, celeriac fondant, apple and black pudding mash with Calvados sauce
- Penne pasta with Rosary goats cheese in a crème fraîche sauce, roasted butternut squash and patty pans
- Main course salad of seared tiger prawns, fattoush and farro salad with a lemon and sumac dressing
- Chocolate marquise on an almond and chocolate base
- Warm apple tart tatin
- Madagascan vanilla ice cream
- Shropshire Blue
- Gillot Camembert
- Godminster
- Tomme De Savoie
Last edited by midnightmartini; Nov 30, 2017 at 3:03 pm Reason: typo
Nov 30, 2017, 2:50 am
#1086
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 1,345
20th December 2017
BA207 London to Miami 09:15
Starters
- Scottish smoked salmon with pickled cucumber, radish and dill cream cheese
- Wild mushroom quail egg and artichoke salad with truffle cream and black olive biscotti
Salad
- Fresh winter salad of marinated mouli and green beans
Main
- Braised British beef in a red wine sauce with roasted herb new potatoes, sautéed mushrooms, baby onions and fine green beans
- Roast corn fed chicken breast with braised cabbage, pancetta, roast potatoes and thyme jus
- Fusilli pasta with chargrilled yellow peppers, slow roast cherry tomatoes and a creamy plum tomato and pesto sauce
- Chilled Main Course Salad of seared ras el hanout prawns, carrot and courgette salad, lemon cous cous and Espelette dressing
Dessert
- Salted caramel slice with burnt honeycomb cream
- Dorset Coastal Cheddar and Somerset Camembert cheeses served with spiced mulled apple jelly and biscuits
- A selection of fruit
Basically posh "chicken or beef"
Nov 30, 2017, 3:00 am
#1087
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
Programs: AF/KL Life Plat, BA GGL+GfL, ALL Plat, Hilton Diam, Marriott Gold, blablablah, etc
Posts: 30,517
Sorry, don't mean to sound pedantic, but the fish on offer is actually a stone bass and not a sea bass. It's a completely different fish, from a completely different family (also called wreckfish)
Nov 30, 2017, 8:02 am
#1088
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: UK
Programs: Baec
Posts: 191
After recent experiences of CW food I'll be taking emergency supplies with me just in case.
Nov 30, 2017, 9:13 am
#1089
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 1,345
I fear it's going to be even harder to choose something you actually might like once the number of main course choices drops from 4 to 3 and it's going to pretty much be meat, fish or veggie (although with the speed at which the roll out is happening, we may not need to worry about that for some time.)
Nov 30, 2017, 9:35 am
#1090
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: CGN
Programs: LH SEN
Posts: 231
LHR to JFK Dec 28th, 2017, First
Starters
- Loch Fyne smoked salmon with chive and freshly grated horseradish crème fraiche, caper berries and cress
- Twice baked goats cheese soufflé with caramelised red onion marmalade and fresh rocket
- Lobster bisque finished with brandy, served with cheese straws
- Fresh seasonal salad with a choice of thousand Island dressing or olive oil balsamic dressing
Main
- Seared duo of lamb with pomegranate jus, served with Moroccan cous cous, buttered baby carrots and sautéed okra
- Indian butter chicken with smoked coriander rice, oven baked cauliflower and mustard raita
- Slow braised Beef and kidneys in Yorkshire Pudding with mashed potato and seasonal baby vegetables
- Pappardelle and courgette ribbons, bound in a truffle cream sauce, served with fresh green asparagus and slow roasted cherry tomatoes
- Warm king prawns with a salad of picked wild radish, baby corn, wasabi infused potatoes and finished with a sakura dressing
Desserts
- Classic tarte au citron
- Warm plum and almond pudding served with vanilla crème Anglaise
- Vanilla ice cream
Cheese Board
- Somerset Brie
- Keens Cheddar
- Cropwell Bishop Stilton
Wow - kidneys as an in-flight food option. I am an adventurous eater but also like good food - anybody ever had that or something similar on a BA flight? Was it good?
Have safe travels
Primenumber
Nov 30, 2017, 11:18 am
#1092
Join Date: May 2016
Location: London WC1
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 435
BA39 London to Beijing 16:20
See the menus below for the meals you'll be served on your flight.Starters
- Devonshire hand picked crab, sautéed tiger prawn with avocado and tomato salsa
- Croxton manor goat curd with verjus marinated Cheltenham beetroot, candied walnut and onion Madeleines
- French onion soup with parmesan and paprika straw
- Fresh seasonal salad with a choice of Damson and Juniper dressing or Honey mustard dressing
Main
- Beijing chicken with sesame sauce, fried tofu with celery and peppers, egg fried rice
- Braised British beef with potato dauphinoise, roast parsnip, buttered kale and truffle jus
- Pan fried North Atlantic cod fillet, lobster Ravioli with shellfish sauce
- Chestnut and pumpkin nut roast, chateau potatoes, sautéed sprouts with onion and tomato gravy
- Main course salad of chargrilled cornfed chicken with bacon lardons, potato straws and Caesar dressing
Desserts
- Toffee chocolate cylinder served with a crisp nut mix
- Warm apple and blackberry crumble
- Madagascan vanilla ice cream
Cheese Plate
- Lincolnshire Poacher
- WensleyDale Blue
- Camembert Somerset
- Vintage Gouda
No kidney
Nov 30, 2017, 12:23 pm
#1093
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
Programs: AF/KL Life Plat, BA GGL+GfL, ALL Plat, Hilton Diam, Marriott Gold, blablablah, etc
Posts: 30,517
I admit it would leave me a bit worried: I like kidneys but it is one food which gets really horrid and rubbery when overcooked, which is the name of the game with plane food.
Dec 3, 2017, 2:29 am
#1094
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 107
BA199 London to Mumbai 20:50 CW
See the menus below for the meals you'll be served on your flight.Starters
- Scottish smoked salmon with pickled cucumber, radish and dill cream cheese
- Papdi Chaat with tamarind chutney
Salad
- Fresh winter salad of marinated mouli and green beans
Main
- British rump of lamb in a red wine sauce with roasted herb new potatoes, sautéed mushrooms, baby onions and fine green beans
- Matar paneer and jeera pilau with tamarind okra (Diced paneer with curried peas, served with cumin flavoured rice and okra cooked in tamarind sauce)
- Butter chicken with kaali dal and pea pilau (Chicken cooked in rich tomato sauce with butter, almonds and spices served with seasoned black lentils dal and pea pilau)
- Chilled main course salad of seared ras el hanout prawns, carrot and courgette salad, lemon cous cous and Espelette dressing
Dessert
- Salted caramel slice with burnt honeycomb cream
- Dorset Coastal Cheddar and Somerset Camembert cheeses served with spiced mulled apple jelly and biscuits
- A selection of fruit
Dec 3, 2017, 4:23 am
#1095
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: London
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold & GGL & CCR, HH Diam, Bonvoy Titanium, IHG Spire, Tastecard
Posts: 7,549
Starters
- Loch Fyne smoked salmon with chive and freshly grated horseradish crème fraiche, caper berries and cress
- Twice baked goats cheese soufflé with caramelised red onion marmalade and fresh rocket
- Lobster bisque finished with brandy, served with cheese straws
- Fresh seasonal salad with a choice of thousand Island dressing or olive oil balsamic dressing
Main
- Seared duo of lamb with pomegranate jus, served with Moroccan cous cous, buttered baby carrots and sautéed okra
- Indian butter chicken with smoked coriander rice, oven baked cauliflower and mustard raita
- Slow braised Beef and kidneys in Yorkshire Pudding with mashed potato and seasonal baby vegetables
- Pappardelle and courgette ribbons, bound in a truffle cream sauce, served with fresh green asparagus and slow roasted cherry tomatoes
- Warm king prawns with a salad of picked wild radish, baby corn, wasabi infused potatoes and finished with a sakura dressing
Desserts
- Classic tarte au citron
- Warm plum and almond pudding served with vanilla crème Anglaise
- Vanilla ice cream
Cheese Board
- Somerset Brie
- Keens Cheddar
- Cropwell Bishop Stilton
Wow - kidneys as an in-flight food option. I am an adventurous eater but also like good food - anybody ever had that or something similar on a BA flight? Was it good?
Have safe travels
Primenumber