It was very tasty, and the ciabatta was soft. But I really need to cut down on the bread so it will be the chicken slices for me in future.

Forgot to add that the dessert was basically liquid. Quite unpleasant. (Although the sweetness appealed to my sweet tooth!)

Afternoon tea flight. Medium band with Muslim meal. It was very tasty and will order again.

In my opinion Gordon's export is by far the better gin. Bombay Sapphire is overpriced (presumably to pay for all the marketing that makes it so well known) and overrated...

Could you say a bit more about what it was? I see a sort of yellow tabulleh/couscous but the rest is not obvious.

The yellow stuff was couscous, brown was a lentil/bell pepper mix. The triangles were halloumi. And fruitcake for dessert. It sure beats the two tired looking finger sandwiches everyone else got.

Interesting - I would have guessed the triangles were tofu, as they look very similar to the slices that used to appear regularly in the VGML/VLML salads. Halloumi is probably a lot more expensive to source and prepare, which seems to buck the penny-pinching trend!

Does that mean the Muslim meal will be vegetarian? Good to bear in mind for the future...

https://preview.ibb.co/kCRw5k/IMG_0049.jpg

EDI-LHR evening AVML.

It does not and shouldn't be relied upon to be so. You might be sorely disappointed. Chicken has made an appearance on many a Muslim meal. Of course they will try to consolidate this some so that they aren't preparing so many meals, so it may be vegetarian, but certainly not guaranteed so.

For the first time since Club Europe was introduced on domestic flights, I found myself aboard a morning flight from MAN that fell within the the Breakfast catering band.

BA1387 08:35 Manchester to Heathrow (Breakfast)
This is an early morning flight that falls within the 'Breakfast' catering band. This was an A320 service with 16 CE passengers spread across 6 rows. There were 3 crew in CE and 2 crew looking after the ET cabin.

Service
LHR flights to and from MAN and LBA are in the express catering category (service times of less than 22 minutes). Hot towels were offered on the ground. As is typical on these flights, the crew were on their feet within 60 seconds of takeoff. Meals and drinks were served together seat-side from a single trolley. Two crew offered the tray and asked if we wanted 'tea, coffee or juices' as mentioned in another topic. There was no champagne on top of the trolley, which appears (IIRC) to be a change from the previous CE breakfast SOP.

A champagne was ordered as was a G&T and the crew member went back through the curtain to order the same from the CSM. Drinks appeared at the same time as the food.

Food
The tray offered to all passengers contained a fruit plate, yoghurt with fruit compote, a bacon roll was offered together with warm bread, croissants and preserves. Once the meal service had been completed more drinks were offered and the bread basket was passed through the cabin again. Over all an excellent, happy service from this mixed fleet crew.

I found this breakfast offereing perfect for the time of day and length of flight. The bacon roll was loaded with two rashers of very good quality back bacon and a delicious sun-dried tomato relish. I did think it was a tad small at first sight, but the reality was that it was just about right. The fruit was fresh and sweet and the yougurt compote pleasant.

For the MAN/LBA flights this is just right, another well done to BA on this domestic CE product.

The AVML (Asian vegetarian) and Muslim meal have the same core dish judging from the photo above. So that seems to be the way forward there for you, order AVML. I suppose it is ha'lal, nevertheless Muslims seem to have gotten the wrong end of the lowest-common-denominator game here.

Aah - I didn't have access to MMB at the time so didn't even realise this was greyed out. (Hence why I was baffled at what I thought was a straight forward request).

After the second call, myflights updated immediately with the meal request, and when I later managed to access MMB it was showing in there too.

On the flight I received the vegetarian sushi meal (the same as in post 710). Very tasty and perfect for such a short flight.

Thanks for the confirmation. It turns out that the "greying out" is an error which BA will be fixing shortly. I'll update the wiki over the weekend so that people know that domestic do in fact have special meals, but the current workaround is to set the BAEC preferences to the special meal and then it cascades over.

This is exactly what I had on my recent flight from MAD. Woeful portions and not impressive at all IMO. The Iberia offering is much better based on my recent experience. Wouldn't have said that a few years ago.