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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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Oct 13, 2022, 1:07 pm

#1321

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Quote:

Originally Posted by crazy8534

So, the menu tells us that the highlight-bordering signifies a “range of favourites”. Would everyone who listed their favourite meal as “Original Coronarion Cauliflower Salad, washed down with a Twinings tea” please press their call bell ?

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Oct 13, 2022, 1:12 pm

#1322

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Quote:

Originally Posted by scubadu

They weren't great, but certainly better than what you often get (if anything at all) on a 2 hour US flight today if flying during the "wrong" portion of the day (i.e. the time of day that the airline has defined as "not mealtime")
Regards

Ha, this is very true and great context! I'm probably inadvertently holding BA to a higher standard because I'm used to CW and the transition to CE can be uneven. Agree the champs is decent.

Totally, US carriers aren't great and I'm very used to sucking it up for a 5-6 hour transcon on those. Virgin America First was a notable exception, but that was revolutionary and leaned heavily on its British pedigree. Still haven't tried B6 Mint.

Oct 13, 2022, 1:16 pm

#1323

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Quote:

Originally Posted by joydiv

<snip>I'm used to CW and the transition to CE can be uneven. Agree the champs is decent.

Oh, totally agree. I'm US based as well and the transition from CW to CE definitely creates a "disturbance in the Force" to be sure. But to be fair, that disturbance occurs in our transition from long haul, back to domestic when we are returning to the US as well as we often have to connect to get all the way home.

Regards

Oct 13, 2022, 1:31 pm

#1324

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Quote:

Originally Posted by scubadu

But to be fair, that disturbance occurs in our transition from long haul, back to domestic when we are returning to the US as well as we often have to connect to get all the way home.

This is true! And this end you also have to go through immigration in between

Oct 13, 2022, 1:36 pm

#1325

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Oxon Flyer

I ended up choosing it just to see (although only ate half due to kCal issues!!) and it was fine. But definitely not one of my repertoire of “old favourites”!

Oh and btw- the can of Diet Coke was served on board and not taken from the lounge- I swear it!

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Oct 13, 2022, 2:44 pm

#1326

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Setting aside the surreal ‘original / favourite’ tags (as penned by ever-imaginative menu copywriters), can this dish - essentially a side salad with ingredients worth around £1 - really be considered a main course ?
House guests would surely struggle to conceal disappointment and surprise if it were served up by their host as lunch or dinner.

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Oct 13, 2022, 3:54 pm

#1327

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That Coronation Cauliflower is a total cheap joke.
BA pull your finger out!

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Oct 14, 2022, 2:49 am

#1328

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PGberkshire

Well, its never left the menu, just hasn't been stocked recently.

None available on my flight last night.
Cointreau remains available, although it’s not on the menu.

Oct 14, 2022, 8:45 am

#1329

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Hot Meal Club Europe GOT>LHR Dep 20:30?

According to Wiki Band 3 so should get hot dinner but wasn't sure after Covid?

Oct 14, 2022, 11:34 am

#1330

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Yes hot meal.

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Oct 14, 2022, 11:47 am

#1331

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Oxon Flyer

Original Coronation Cauliflower Salad

I suggest to BA's catering team that it's the "original" for a very good reason...

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Oct 14, 2022, 11:53 am

#1332

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Am travelling LHR-VCE on the 18.50 departure next week. It's an A321 going all the way back to row 13, I have taken row 10 for the exit seats.

Any idea what the choices will be and given that there's going to be 40+ in CE whether they will run out. I'm Silver if that makes any difference.

Oct 15, 2022, 2:55 am

#1333

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 44C

According to Wiki Band 3 so should get hot dinner but wasn't sure after Covid?

CE catering is back to normal (which is not quite the same as pre-pandemic as brunch has gone and Band 2 routes now also get hot lunches and dinners, but as normal as it's going to get).

Oct 15, 2022, 6:44 am

#1334

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LHR-EDI

I had the Ploughman’s thing with the Scotch egg and again it was fine. Not sure sure about the kCal difference (apologies, current obsession) between the 2 mains- can it all be accounted for by a really heavy dressing or something?