Simonp27

BA0754 LHR to Basel, 1505 today.
No menus but...

One third of a Ham sandwich
Salmon roll
Brie on rye bread

Plus optional scone and battenberg cake.

Roddas clotted cream is a nice touch with the scone.

JustTheOne

At least you got clotted cream! This was LHR-AMS earlier this week...:

mikeyfly

Tonight’s BA1495 from GLA

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to be served on band 2 sectors, and based on this, we are pleased to re-introduce hoand dinner Club Europe - Product Changes -

Band 2
Customer feedback indicates their preference is for hot meal options to be served on band 2 sectors, and based on this, we are pleased tore-introduce hot lunch and dinner menus. This will also provide additional options for customers, offering a third main course choice.
Bands 4/5
Mid flight Club Kitchen basket pass.menus. This will also provide additional options for customers, offering a third main course choice. 2 (e.g. BCN, LIN, NCE)- Customer feedback indicates their preference is for hot meal options to be served on band 2 sectors, and based on this, we are pleased to re-introduce hot lunch and dinner menus. This will also provide additional options for customers, offering a third main course choice.
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ENTP

That is very good news IMO, CIHY. Thanks for sharing!

TedToToe

The Club Kitchen on Band 4 and 5 is welcome news, indeed. For me, on a night stopping breakfast service, it's 05:15 from the hotel with insufficient time to make use of the lounge. It will be akin to having elevenses!

PUCCI GALORE

This was the Cod option. There were no menus. Champagne was served from big bottles thank God and was beautifully chilled. The starter looked and tasted like Tarmosalata. I liked it. The cod I would have called Bacalao as it was slightly smoked rather than bland as cod so often can be. There were three salad options and Mac and Cheese.

The crew were brilliant. Simply brilliant. Thy served the entire 9 row Club cabin with a bar service followed by dinner within one hour of departure. They were a super team and all in all made for a delightful flight.

81romeo

Brilliant example of how to fill the empty gaps on the plate with random leaves (given the very small portions)

bafan

Yes ! Finally some good news…Will look forward to this on my LPA flights this winter…

FEMW

BA1461 EDI-LHR 23/08/2022

Ok - breakfast shot. Basically breakfast is not my fave meal. I am fussy about eggs as I can only eat them when the yolk and white mixed together as in scrambled eggs or omelette. Separated form has me gagging!! I like my scrambled eggs to be freshly made with a bit of wet creamy finish. I’m that fussy!

Anyway - hats off to to whoever made this one because the scrambled egg was just perfect and I really enjoyed it.

NickB

The link in the wiki refers to the old four tier bands nomenclature. Is there a post somewhere with the current five tier banding system?

orbitmic

Indeed, and that is with immediate effect. I was on LHR-NCE today lunchtime and was shocked to see band 3 catering. I thought it might be a catering mistake, but the crew member told me that he had received information that it was a proper change which matches what CIHY reports here. He also mentioned that there was further improvement for LCA though did not specify what that was but now I see.

The LHR-NCE menu was chicken mushroom pie or vegetable korma.

I had pre-ordered the KSML and, perhaps Rosh Hashanah catering helping it was massive: a chicken breast starter had half a cold chicken breast sticking out of the pot alongside a mushroom and pea base and cherry tomatoes; the main was a mixture of roast salt beef and veal tongue. Now, you may think it's odd but it's in fact fairly traditional and I actually love veal tongue so was very happy. It was served in a sweet and sour sauce with sweet sauerkraut and tzimes (sweet carrots) and boiled potatoes. there was a second starter of hummus with melba toasts, and for once, the chocolate mousse and ganache dessert was actually excellent, and there was a little jar of honey - again, I suspect as a Rosh Hashanah special (lots of sweetness for the new year!).

It was a huge amount of food, I'd say over 150g of meat (2 biggish slices of each of the two meats). Now I was just off an ultra long haul 14 hour flight in CW with the regular menu (I often avoid SPML from outstations as they are often poor) and the contrast in terms of food portions was spectacular. The starter was "tomato mozzarella", the singular cherry tomato being accurate alongside a similarly singular mozzarella bocconcino. The main was beef fillet. "Mignon" would have been to the point as the meat portion was probably about 50-60 g at most, the diametre of a 50p coin more or less, with a few green beans, one small potato sliced and plenty of water in the dish. The "cheese platter" looked like the sort of thing a French little girl would probably serve when playing dolls. There was a "camembert" slice about the shape of a quarter of a babybel, and a bit of emmenthal differently shaped but no bigger. Finally the dessert was the equivalent of one of the AF mini-desserts (AF serve you three!) Say about the size of a Parisian macaroon.

The "full breakfast" the next morning was equally embarrassing in terms of quantity. The whole of its "fullness" being represented by the small tail part of a pancetta-thin sliced bit of bacon (you know that little fat bit which is short and narrow, in this case about 3in long and maybe 1/2 to 2/3 in wide and ultra thin). It came with scrambled eggs which whilst not real scrambled eggs were actually amongst the best I have had on BA (better than the usual F stuff too), a tiny potato cake (again that sort of 50p size) which was again good and two quarters of a small button mushroom (so half a small button mushroom I guess) and a small pot of yoghurt.

On balance, I would say that my CE KSML band 2 lunch was about twice more food than my ultra long CW dinner, and significantly more than all of the food I had on that flight, limited club kitchen included the regular CE lunch being somewhere in between.

orbitmic

I think band 5 refers to the former CW routes which have been switched to CE such as AMM and CAI.

let_BAegones_be

Another lovely and healthy Club Europe meal instead of the usual fat, sugar and salt loaded CE offering.

Couscous with lemon dressing and slow roasted tomatoes.
Vegetable crudités with smashed chickpeas.
Steamed cod with grilled vegetables.
Fruit yelly with fresh blueberries and low fat vanilla yoghurt on top.

NickB

Ah, OK. So is there any difference between band 4 and 5, then?