Should a CW main course look like this?
Apr 29, 2016, 1:49 pm
#16
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Argentina
Posts: 40,211
Apr 29, 2016, 1:54 pm
#17
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Chelsea
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 1,227
I am not a massively fussy eater (except, perhaps, when compared with HIDDY
) but I have rarely had an edible meal in CW anywhere other than ex-LHR, which always seem to be pretty good. SYD, SIN, SFO, SEA, PEK, CPT are my recent experiences and almost without exception they were dire. China I'm willing to exclude but really, what gives, when the local standards of food and availabilty of decent ingredients are so high? 
) but I have rarely had an edible meal in CW anywhere other than ex-LHR, which always seem to be pretty good. SYD, SIN, SFO, SEA, PEK, CPT are my recent experiences and almost without exception they were dire. China I'm willing to exclude but really, what gives, when the local standards of food and availabilty of decent ingredients are so high?
Apr 29, 2016, 1:59 pm
#20
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
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: 30,541
Seriously, I don't think that even Willie Walsh would dare to suggest that!
Apr 29, 2016, 2:04 pm
#21
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Argentina
Posts: 40,211
Apr 29, 2016, 2:28 pm
#24
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
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: 30,541
Agreed. All my BA flights in CW and F have had really poor menus, and a particularly nasty tasting menu on the A380 flight. This is really quite paradoxical as that city, which I personally do not like very much (I know many people do), does have some great food to offer!
Apr 29, 2016, 2:38 pm
#26
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: between MUC and NUE
Programs: BA Gold, LH Senator
Posts: 423
Except, beef from US outstations is usually better than ex UK. My rule of thumb: flying ex UK - anything but beef, flying ex US - always beef. Since following this rule I always had mediocre to good food. Never excellent but never bad either.
Apr 29, 2016, 6:28 pm
#28
Original Poster
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Lisboa
Programs: BAEC Gold, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, IHG Spire, Easyjet Flight Club
Posts: 452
The crew actually then went to First to get me a salad starter and pasta option from the Bistro menu... The pasta was, again, inedible, but I did enjoy the salad.
I must mention though on the way out from LHR, I flew to San Diego on this trip and had a really, really excellent Tofu curry and also an excellent MF crew.... so I guess it's all very inconsistent.
Apr 29, 2016, 6:32 pm
#29
Original Poster
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Lisboa
Programs: BAEC Gold, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, IHG Spire, Easyjet Flight Club
Posts: 452
The slop on the side was pieces of what is allegedly cheese I had picked out from the top, however there was some of the "risotto" spilled on the plate below when served.
Apr 29, 2016, 6:58 pm
#30
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Argentina
Posts: 40,211
I'm vegetarian, so somewhat limited... The, what was apparently mushroom risotto was from the regular CW menu and the 2nd main course was the lacto-ovo vegetarian dish.
The crew actually then went to First to get me a salad starter and pasta option from the Bistro menu... .
The crew actually then went to First to get me a salad starter and pasta option from the Bistro menu... .