Mar 15, 2022, 5:58 pm
Last edit by: Prospero
Please do not quote photos in this thread.
Details of band and service timings can be found here: Band & Services Timings
Sister thread: Club Europe catering | opinions and general discussion
Archived thread Club Europe catering | menus, reviews and photos (Sep 2018 to Mar 2022)
Numbers relate to the post number. Vegetarian means the alternative option provided as standard rather than the special meals. The pre-ordered special meals are AVML (Asia-vegetarian), CHML (children's meal), DBML (diabetic meal), GFML (gluten-free), HNML (Hindu non-vegetarian meal), KSML (Kosher meal), LCML (low-calorie meal), LFML (low-fat meal), NLML (low-lactose meal), LSML (low salt meal), MOML (Muslim meal), VGML (vegan meal), and VLML (lacto-ovo vegetarian).
There are differences between the offering in/out of LHR, LGW, and BA CityFlyer routes operated from LCY, STN, BRS, BHX, MAN, EDI, and DUB. For BA CityFlyer flights please refer to this guide created by eJetterBA CityFlyer catering guide
Last update: post 2705 (band 1 breakfast KSML)
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Chef's Chat sheets for:
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Express (LBA, MAN, and JER only. Note JER is classed as 'Express' but gets band 1 service)
Breakfast:
Brunch:
Lunch:
Afternoon tea:
Dinner:
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Band 1 (UK, France, Ireland, BeNeLux, Germany)
Breakfast: 2705 (KSML),
Brunch:
Lunch: 2637,
Afternoon tea:
Dinner: 2697 (KSML),
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Band 2 (e.g. Barcelona, Nice, Venice, Prague, Copenhagen)
Breakfast:
Brunch:
Lunch: 2631, 2636,
Afternoon tea: 2630 (CHML), 2637
Dinner:
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Band 3 (e.g. Madrid, Rome, Warsaw, Stockholm)
Breakfast: 1298 (LSML),
Rest of the day: 1299 (LSML),
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Band 4 (e.g. Malta, Sofia, Kyiv, Istanbul)
Breakfast:
Rest of the day: 2639
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Band 5 (e.g., Cairo, Amman)
Breakfast:
Rest of the day:
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Details of band and service timings can be found here: Band & Services Timings
Sister thread: Club Europe catering | opinions and general discussion
Archived thread Club Europe catering | menus, reviews and photos (Sep 2018 to Mar 2022)
Numbers relate to the post number. Vegetarian means the alternative option provided as standard rather than the special meals. The pre-ordered special meals are AVML (Asia-vegetarian), CHML (children's meal), DBML (diabetic meal), GFML (gluten-free), HNML (Hindu non-vegetarian meal), KSML (Kosher meal), LCML (low-calorie meal), LFML (low-fat meal), NLML (low-lactose meal), LSML (low salt meal), MOML (Muslim meal), VGML (vegan meal), and VLML (lacto-ovo vegetarian).
There are differences between the offering in/out of LHR, LGW, and BA CityFlyer routes operated from LCY, STN, BRS, BHX, MAN, EDI, and DUB. For BA CityFlyer flights please refer to this guide created by eJetterBA CityFlyer catering guide
Last update: post 2705 (band 1 breakfast KSML)
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Chef's Chat sheets for:
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Express (LBA, MAN, and JER only. Note JER is classed as 'Express' but gets band 1 service)
Breakfast:
Brunch:
Lunch:
Afternoon tea:
Dinner:
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Band 1 (UK, France, Ireland, BeNeLux, Germany)
Breakfast: 2705 (KSML),
Brunch:
Lunch: 2637,
Afternoon tea:
Dinner: 2697 (KSML),
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Band 2 (e.g. Barcelona, Nice, Venice, Prague, Copenhagen)
Breakfast:
Brunch:
Lunch: 2631, 2636,
Afternoon tea: 2630 (CHML), 2637
Dinner:
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Band 3 (e.g. Madrid, Rome, Warsaw, Stockholm)
Breakfast: 1298 (LSML),
Rest of the day: 1299 (LSML),
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Band 4 (e.g. Malta, Sofia, Kyiv, Istanbul)
Breakfast:
Rest of the day: 2639
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Band 5 (e.g., Cairo, Amman)
Breakfast:
Rest of the day:
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Club Europe catering | menus, reviews and photos
Sep 5, 2022, 2:52 pm
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Thanks, Band 2, Venice.
Sep 5, 2022, 9:05 pm
#1067
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LHR - GVA Kosher Breakfast
Really glad to have this meal. Certainly a lot more of it than the standard option, and challenging to finish given the short flight time.
Frittata, potato cake and mushrooms: very good with the mushrooms providing much needed sauce.
Croissant and cinnamon roll: very good
Fruit: ok
Only criticism was the absence of butter.
Sep 5, 2022, 9:10 pm
#1068
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GVA - LHR Kosher afternoon tea (3.20pm take off)
Again, more food here than on the standard option.
Sandwiches were tuna mayo with sweetcorn and cucumber; salmon; and (cold) roasted vegetables. I didn't like the veg one.
Scone was provided on the right. Cabin crew had forgotten to heat it up.
Small piece of cake and a macaroon for dessert: really nice.
Sep 6, 2022, 11:41 am
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Looks like a macaron, not a macaroon.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...the-difference
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...the-difference
Sep 6, 2022, 3:08 pm
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CE breakfast within the bands is something I find slightly odd. Let's say you flew to Stockholm during the day, you'd receive a light meal. Fly at breakfast, you get the full English option. However, fly a far longer band 4 option, normally you'd receive a more substantial meal, but at breakfast you receive the same as someone on a band 1 or 2. Makes no sense.
Sep 6, 2022, 3:15 pm
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Looks like a macaron, not a macaroon.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...the-difference
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...the-difference
Sep 6, 2022, 3:23 pm
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CE breakfast within the bands is something I find slightly odd. Let's say you flew to Stockholm during the day, you'd receive a light meal. Fly at breakfast, you get the full English option. However, fly a far longer band 4 option, normally you'd receive a more substantial meal, but at breakfast you receive the same as someone on a band 1 or 2. Makes no sense.
Sep 6, 2022, 3:28 pm
#1073
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More beef cheeks, this time with mashed potato, veg and gravy, on LHR-SPU today. It tasted pretty good. No menus again. Initially told there were just two options the other being an aubergine curry. It turned out there were also prawn salads loaded. Good, personable crew today and a nice flight despite a 30 minute delay.
Sep 6, 2022, 3:29 pm
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CE breakfast within the bands is something I find slightly odd. Let's say you flew to Stockholm during the day, you'd receive a light meal. Fly at breakfast, you get the full English option. However, fly a far longer band 4 option, normally you'd receive a more substantial meal, but at breakfast you receive the same as someone on a band 1 or 2. Makes no sense.
Sep 6, 2022, 3:32 pm
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Looks like a macaron, not a macaroon.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...the-difference
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...the-difference
Sep 6, 2022, 3:40 pm
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To be honest, that is stretching things a bit: both are actually covered by the French "macaron" which covers both types (with the same word) but in two different traditions (effectively, the one you refer to as "macaron" here is the 19th century bourgeois patisserie version, but the one you refer to as "macaroon" has just the same name and was already widespread in the 17th century in the French southwest with near Eastern origins from the Middle Ages and which also travelled to Italy as "maccherone" and France as "macarons" during the Enlightenment.
Like you say, the French call both types "macaron," but I have yet to see any language using "macaroon" for the flat, almond flour-based cookies with filling between them.
Last edited by Peter Snijder; Sep 6, 2022 at 4:12 pm
Sep 6, 2022, 4:10 pm
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In the English language they are spelled differently, and since the rest of the post I responded to is in English, I assumed that's the spelling we should go with.
Like you say, the French call both types "macaron," but I have yet to see any language using "macaroon" for the flat, almond-based cookies with filling between them.
Like you say, the French call both types "macaron," but I have yet to see any language using "macaroon" for the flat, almond-based cookies with filling between them.
Invoking English kitchen goddess Delia - a macaroon is a flat, almondy biscuit with rice paper on the bottom. I do remember them from baker's shops in my childhood, where they may have had desiccated coconut in them rather than almond, and half a glance cherry decorating the centre. I do love them. Here's her recipe, hope you can all access it:
https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/...ench/macaroons
The more recently popular (in the UK) macaron, is a lovely pair of meringue like confections with a cream filling in-between.
Last edited by camdentown; Sep 6, 2022 at 4:11 pm Reason: spelling
Sep 6, 2022, 11:25 pm
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In the English language they are spelled differently, and since the rest of the post I responded to is in English, I assumed that's the spelling we should go with.
Like you say, the French call both types "macaron," but I have yet to see any language using "macaroon" for the flat, almond flour-based cookies with filling between them.
Like you say, the French call both types "macaron," but I have yet to see any language using "macaroon" for the flat, almond flour-based cookies with filling between them.
Sep 7, 2022, 3:34 am
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Mrs Crimble’s coconut macaroons are most definitely a British thing as opposed to the meringue based almond confection displayed in the photo.
That said I think macaroon is the literal translation of macaron
That said I think macaroon is the literal translation of macaron
Sep 9, 2022, 5:23 am
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LHR - SOF today, a herb and ricotta omelette. It was OK, about as flavourful as you can expect from the ingredients, not very. Unfortunately the CC put the hot dish on top of the butter pat so the tray was covered in melted butter. No menus.
Last edited by choosethedrew; Sep 9, 2022 at 5:41 am