jkenn

Tinned macaroni and cheese....haven't thought about that in 30 years, do they still make that?

HIDDY

Not sure but given you can get an all day breakfast in a tin my money would be on they do.

flatlander

Yes.

vibguy

This is not unusual. If you have to fly CW, try to eat before boarding and/or bring some of your own food (sandwich, snack) on board. The on board food in CW is inedible most times. BA will now also enhance the food in First, so no escape there any longer.

Concerto

Can't believe how bad it's getting. It's only airline food, of course, but most carriers make some effort to produce something decent in their premium cabins (I've had many a good meal in the sky). I'm just an observer here, I don't fly BA any more and that's the way it's going to stay. More I read this forum, less I want to come back!

Can I help you

You will always get reports about poor catering and the Internet tends to shows the extremes, but to be honest in general our food has improved, if you don't fly with us Concerto you will never know.

andyedinburgh

#firstworldproblems

I get the food may be unattractive, but inedible? Really guys.

ENTP

At least it left mush room for something else 😀

stevie

I get that Andy. But put in context the cost associated with CW means a decently presently and tasty meal should be offered. In this case the dishes look like hot liquefied colours.

missdimeaner

Both my recent CW meals (I only travel for leisure so not as much as most here) were really nice.
Chicken tikka masala with cauliflower and rice (cauliflower overcooked) was very nice.
'Breakfast' on the 178, Chicken tikka with cauliflower (and spinach I think) cauliflower cooked perfectly. Pity they didn't have a lassi with them but I had a smoothie instead.
You can see a theme here no doubt, I actually like spicy food for breakfast so a win for me.
I avoid the beef as I am fussy about how it is cooked.
Curries work very well and I would like to see them included all the time.
That risotto looks like soup , I am not a big fan of them at the best of times but that does look inedible.

henkybaby

I agree and despite having had some bad experiences in the past (<2015), I am actually looking forward to my new (long haul) flights on BA next month. Mostly because what I have seen in the various threads about food and because of the positive words of the regulars here.

I hope (and half expect) it will be good!

jcm9000

Canny beat a tin of heinz macaroni cheese, my 2 year old agrees!

orbitmic

I agree with you that it has generally improved, albeit more in F than in CW IMHO. If I think of the past 12 months, in CW, I would say that I have had a few great dishes (e.g. the guinea fowl with red cabbage last November was really nice, as was this year's Christmas turkey dish, but I think it was the same as F anyway), but also a few really vile ones (such as a recent ghastly chicken avocado starter, a really nasty vegetarian pasta dish in January, etc).

I'd say that on the whole, in J, BA is still below much of the competition in terms of food quality (OS, TK, AZ, AF, IB, LX, etc all typically do it better to only mention European competitors), while it is now typically above the competition in terms of wine quality.

User Name

We could simply close down the whole FT forum and just slap this as a banner on a landing page in its place. I never understand why people type this as it never seems to add any value to the conversation.

I think most people have some kind of standards when it comes to the quality of food that they'd like too put into their bodies. This is business class that costs thousands of pounds/dollars to travel in. It's a perfectly reasonable expectation that the food served does not look and/or taste like crap.

jcm9000

Sounds like the curries i make! The op's pics put even my home baked slop on a pedestal. I'd never order it as i'm a nae meat nae eat sort of chap in the air, but i wouldn't wish that on my enemies (coming from a guy that likes heinz macaroni cheese and bombay badboy pot noodles).