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NOTE, this wiki may have some broken links, so please bear with us for a week or do until we get round to the less than glamorous task of checking them all.
This thread gives the current catering options for the LHR T5 Concorde Room (all day) and First Dining Room within the LHR T3 Galleries First lounge (after 18:30). Eligible passengers include BA First ticket holders, Premier and Concorde Room cardholders. The catering in both lounges is supplied by BaxterStorey, who took over the contract on 2 May 2013.
The current catering options in the LHR CCR can be found in the first post in the thread, or you can click here. In addition, there are a selection of
- bar snacks, details found in post 7 or you can click here
- teas list, details found in post 68 or you can click here
- drinks list, details found in post 69 or you can click here
- cocktails list, details in this separate thread click here
There are also photo guides (updated with October menus) which you can see in the following linked posts:
Concorde Room (CCR) at JFK
Please see this thread which is now dedicated to food and drink at all none LHR Concorde Rooms and Bars
Concorde Rooms and Bars: JFK, IAD, SIN, DXB - food and drink - 2017 thread
Also there is an archive of JFK CCR menus in post #14 of that thread which covers September 2015 to date.
Catering options - other LHR lounges
Galleries First (Flounge) LHR: Dining menu and food options 2016 (n.b. no separate 2017 or 2018 thread) - T3 & T5
Galleries Club lounges LHR: Dining menu and food options - T3 and T5
For the First and Club lounges at Gatwick and the UK domestic lounges in Newcastle, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Leeds, Aberdeen, and Inverness
First Lounge London Gatwick Catering options
Galleries Club Lounge Gatwick (North Terminal): Catering options from April 2013 (n.b. no separate 2014-2018 threads)
UK Domestic lounges (outside London) - catering arrangements from April 2013 (n.b. no separate 2014-2018 threads)
BA Champagne & Wine thread
The LHR CCR cocktail menu - cocktail menu introduced May 2014
The 2017 BA Champagne & Wine Thread - covers LHR & LGW lounges and in the air
Archived food & drink threads
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR: menus 2018
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR: menus 2017
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR: menus 2016
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR: menus 2015
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR: menus 2014
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR: menus 2013
Concorde Dining Room IAD: menus and food options - see new Concorde Rooms and Bars: JFK, IAD, SIN, DXB linked above
Galleries First (Flounge) LHR: Dining menu and food options 2015 - T3 and T5
Galleries First (Flounge) LHR: Dining menu and food options 2014 - T3 and T5
Galleries First (Flounge) LHR: Dining menu and food options 2013 - T3 and T5
First Lounge London Gatwick (North terminal): Catering options from April 2013 (n.b. no separate 2014 or 2015 thread)
The 2016 BA Champagne & Wine Thread - covers LHR & LGW lounges and in the air
The 2014 BA Champagne & Wine Thread - covers LHR & LGW lounges and in the air
The 2013 BA Champagne & Wine Thread - covers LHR & LGW lounges and in the air
International Lounge Terminal 1 LHR - catering options from May 2013 - T1 international flights
This thread gives the current catering options for the LHR T5 Concorde Room (all day) and First Dining Room within the LHR T3 Galleries First lounge (after 18:30). Eligible passengers include BA First ticket holders, Premier and Concorde Room cardholders. The catering in both lounges is supplied by BaxterStorey, who took over the contract on 2 May 2013.
The current catering options in the LHR CCR can be found in the first post in the thread, or you can click here. In addition, there are a selection of
- bar snacks, details found in post 7 or you can click here
- teas list, details found in post 68 or you can click here
- drinks list, details found in post 69 or you can click here
- cocktails list, details in this separate thread click here
There are also photo guides (updated with October menus) which you can see in the following linked posts:
- Dining Menu photo guide - includes all current Dining Menu dishes - post 2
- Lounge Menu photo guide - includes all current Lounge Menu dishes - post 3
- Dining Menu retired dishes guide - archive of retired dishes from Dining Menu - post 4
- Lounge Menu retired dishes guide - archive of retired dishes from Lounge Menu - post 5
Concorde Room (CCR) at JFK
Please see this thread which is now dedicated to food and drink at all none LHR Concorde Rooms and Bars
Concorde Rooms and Bars: JFK, IAD, SIN, DXB - food and drink - 2017 thread
Also there is an archive of JFK CCR menus in post #14 of that thread which covers September 2015 to date.
Catering options - other LHR lounges
Galleries First (Flounge) LHR: Dining menu and food options 2016 (n.b. no separate 2017 or 2018 thread) - T3 & T5
Galleries Club lounges LHR: Dining menu and food options - T3 and T5
For the First and Club lounges at Gatwick and the UK domestic lounges in Newcastle, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Leeds, Aberdeen, and Inverness
First Lounge London Gatwick Catering options
Galleries Club Lounge Gatwick (North Terminal): Catering options from April 2013 (n.b. no separate 2014-2018 threads)
UK Domestic lounges (outside London) - catering arrangements from April 2013 (n.b. no separate 2014-2018 threads)
BA Champagne & Wine thread
The LHR CCR cocktail menu - cocktail menu introduced May 2014
The 2017 BA Champagne & Wine Thread - covers LHR & LGW lounges and in the air
Archived food & drink threads
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR: menus 2018
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR: menus 2017
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR: menus 2016
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR: menus 2015
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR: menus 2014
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR: menus 2013
Concorde Dining Room IAD: menus and food options - see new Concorde Rooms and Bars: JFK, IAD, SIN, DXB linked above
Galleries First (Flounge) LHR: Dining menu and food options 2015 - T3 and T5
Galleries First (Flounge) LHR: Dining menu and food options 2014 - T3 and T5
Galleries First (Flounge) LHR: Dining menu and food options 2013 - T3 and T5
First Lounge London Gatwick (North terminal): Catering options from April 2013 (n.b. no separate 2014 or 2015 thread)
The 2016 BA Champagne & Wine Thread - covers LHR & LGW lounges and in the air
The 2014 BA Champagne & Wine Thread - covers LHR & LGW lounges and in the air
The 2013 BA Champagne & Wine Thread - covers LHR & LGW lounges and in the air
International Lounge Terminal 1 LHR - catering options from May 2013 - T1 international flights
Concorde Room (CCR) LHR : menus 2019
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February menus. I will update the photo guides as well.
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Thanks, got all the photos now
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Was hoping for a more tempting meat option I must say.
PS: I'll pretend pass on the fact that BA manages the extraordinary record of offering a "classic Nicoise salad" which does not happen to include a single element of an actual Nicoise salad (black olives would have qualified but I know that they are using the wrong ones). You sort of wonder what's the point of flying up to 15 flights a day between the UK and Nice in each direction in peak summer if they haven't noticed how the most iconic of local dishes is made...
PS: I'll pretend pass on the fact that BA manages the extraordinary record of offering a "classic Nicoise salad" which does not happen to include a single element of an actual Nicoise salad (black olives would have qualified but I know that they are using the wrong ones). You sort of wonder what's the point of flying up to 15 flights a day between the UK and Nice in each direction in peak summer if they haven't noticed how the most iconic of local dishes is made...
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Was hoping for a more tempting meat option I must say.
PS: I'll pretend pass on the fact that BA manages the extraordinary record of offering a "classic Nicoise salad" which does not happen to include a single element of an actual Nicoise salad (black olives would have qualified but I know that they are using the wrong ones). You sort of wonder what's the point of flying up to 15 flights a day between the UK and Nice in each direction in peak summer if they haven't noticed how the most iconic of local dishes is made...
PS: I'll pretend pass on the fact that BA manages the extraordinary record of offering a "classic Nicoise salad" which does not happen to include a single element of an actual Nicoise salad (black olives would have qualified but I know that they are using the wrong ones). You sort of wonder what's the point of flying up to 15 flights a day between the UK and Nice in each direction in peak summer if they haven't noticed how the most iconic of local dishes is made...
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The first of them is: the whole concept of a Nicoise salad is to use raw vegetables only - no cooked vegetable has or should ever make its way into one. There are no exceptions to this rule. Green beans should be enough to get you a few months' jail sentence, potatoes, new or otherwise, should probably result in the amputation of 3 or 4 hands, and should anyone ever feel like asking about rice, quinoa, sweetcorn, or I don't know what, those would probably be the only arguments that would make one reconsider whether we should reinstate death penalty after all.
Raw tomatoes are by any standard the star ingredient. In fact, historians of the Nicoise salad (yes there are such things, very seriously), suggest that after tomatoes were introduced to Europe, the salade nicoise was undoubtedly a very simple combination of ripe tomatoes, olives, and pissala (baby anchovies crushed into a paste) served with salt, olive oil, and pepper if you were rich enough for it. The concept of introducing dried/semi-dried ("sun blushed") etc tomatoes as opposed to fresh ones is a bit like suggesting athletes should run 100 metre sprints in high heels.
Nicoise salade is a poor salad that would normally only be prepared in the spring (and tolerated in summer) when vegetables are ripe and babyish. You'd normally put in (all raw) baby broad beans, baby artichokes, radishes, salad peppers (more akin to the Hungarian or Turkish mild pointed peppers than the Spanish big ones), nascent celery hearts, Spring onion ('cebettes' which are actually different from the spring onions we find in the UK), and nicoises olives ('picholines'which are tiny, very sweet, and only preserved in salt without a need to remove bitterness at first as with all other olive types). No lettuce and certainly no red onions.
Because it's a poor salad and for warm months, the one key protein is either pissala (good luck finding that even in the Nice area except sometimes from a few elderly people at the fish market in the Old Town) or salted anchovies. With the county becoming richer, in the 20th century it became acceptable to ad hard boiled eggs (but certainly not soft boiled) and/or canned tuna. I'm one of the people who think that ultimately seared albacore will join the list, but other 'tuna' are effectively entirely different species so it's not as though one could use Alaskan keta in Scottish smoked salmon.
And of course, asking for vinaigrette with your salade nicoise would immediately out you as a 'Parisian', the only category of foreigners that Nicois are known to despise with a passion. It's really just olive oil, salt and pepper bar the question of garlic rubbing (but no garlic in the salad) I raised earlier. Some people have been known to add a splash of vinegar when trying to do the salad in early March when the tomatoes are still not flavoursome enough, but the risk if you get caught will remind you of that time you were 13 and got caught doing something you were not supposed to be it with a cigarette, a girl, or anything/anyone else that was not quite supposed to be in your company.
One version here: Recette de la véritable salade niçoise - you should read the recipe, then look at the photo and look for two scandalous mistakes... Answer below.
See? While the recipe on the left side is fine, the photo on the right includes shameless lettuce leaves that would shock even the most lenient of inspectors. pfff…Second, the olives are all wrog, they are not nicoise olives but look like Greek olives, completely different, larger, blacker, wrinkled. tss tss...
Apologies for the ot but nancypants asked, and there are things that are hard to resist and far more important than TPs , plane cleanliness and Champagne...
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One version here: Recette de la véritable salade niçoise - you should read the recipe, then look at the photo and look for two scandalous mistakes... Answer below.
See? While the recipe on the left side is fine, the photo on the right includes shameless lettuce leaves that would shock even the most lenient of inspectors. pfff…Second, the olives are all wrog, they are not nicoise olives but look like Greek olives, completely different, larger, blacker, wrinkled. tss tss...
See? While the recipe on the left side is fine, the photo on the right includes shameless lettuce leaves that would shock even the most lenient of inspectors. pfff…Second, the olives are all wrog, they are not nicoise olives but look like Greek olives, completely different, larger, blacker, wrinkled. tss tss...
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There has been a change to the February menu due to supplier issue. The bacon belly has been replaced by Beef Bourguignon with buttered mashed potato and creamed savoury cabbage.
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oh first time I see that! Had the belly the other day. Could have been an idea (always better than pulled meats anyway!) but the skin was soggy and fat had not melted at all which made the whole thing very salty and fatty. I’m glad I tried it but would have probably resorted to other choices for my next trips this week and thereafter.
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Whatever sympathy I may have for that view is somewhat confounded by the awkward fact that the favourite dish on the menu - by far - remains the burger. As it happens this beef dish tastes good and I would have it again.