MSPeconomist

Cheese and pita chips are apparently vanishing. This was my favorite SC snack.

Aloha1

Hey, it's a start. It's better than than the domestic competition, but it still pales in comparison to the competition overseas. Almost any foreign carrier's domestic clubs offer superior food. Heck, even the Star Team clubs overseas make this look like a soup kitchen. SC membership renewal is due next May. We'll see......

ClipperDelta

Really? Go try most of the Chinese carriers' lounges and report back to us on the spread there...or even some of the European carriers' lounges (except for BA and VS, and occasionally KL in AMS, I can assure you that most of the food offerings are decidely unimpressive).

zxsuxr

Eva's Infinity Lounge food it's pretty darn good. Sure its at their Hub TPE, but the selection is huge which include many vegetarian options and at least 6-10 hot dishes.

If you are scoffing at the promising changes Delta has planned, please visit a United Red Carpet Club. It just gets worse and worse for us.

MSPeconomist

It's the mainland Chinese (carrier) lounges that are awful. CX/HKG is wonderful and Taiwan airlines can have OK lounges.

Not everyone considers vegetarian food to be a good thing.

scottsam66

I thought this was a thread about the SC menu. Are they really that terrible, in your opinion? Why the constant negativity towards children. All traveling kids aren't brats as I've heard them described by you on many threads.
Duly noted- you don't like kids. (I have none btw, so I'm not biased on way or the other, I've just noticed quite a pattern of disparaging children).

pbarnette

Even much of the BA food is often mediocre to bad. Yes, there are choices, but many of the hot choices can be very poor. Indeed, the burger in the F lounge is offensively bad and they should really be ashamed to serve it. On the plus side, however, they almost always have enough cold cuts and the like to give you something to eat if you are super hungry and don't want to venture into the terminal.

I have never been terribly impressed with either AF or KL, which is sad, as CDG, especially, has quite weak food options. Ditto for LX and LH - LH is the worst offender because the airport is so awful and so lacking in food options. SK at least sticks to what they know (cold cuts again) and it generally satisfies as a result.

Now, they may offer more than what DL offers, but I think the new offerings strike a decent balance between offering some nice snacks and most, if not all of the airports with a DL SkyClub have decent restaurant options for real meals. I don't think that, for $500 or so per year, one should expect both an open bar and 3 meals a day and I don't.

SFTNYC

Given the local competition, this is a solid offering from DL. Given foreign competition it still falls short, but overall good move. However, when travelling JFK-LHR (which was my weekly commute for a few months), I have the option of the DL lounge or the VS lounge at JFK, and I will continue to use the VS lounge (full sit-down dinner served free of charge)...

mnredfox

No more fake chees threads?

LOL, I know a few folks that have a good collection of these packets at home.

+1.

At least on FT the complaining is entertaining!

worldwidedreamer

Last month I visited the new Air China lounge in Shanghai and was quite impressed with both the food and beverage section.

Xeno

Having enjoyed the dedicated BE lounges in the past, these current changes still fall well short of what I want since most of my trips clock 20+ hours of 'flying'.

danielonn

Could we possibly have a Food Photos forum of how the new menu looks. Perhaps fellow FTe'rs could post photos of the new menu items/beverage items/Drink Menu of the Complimentary and Premium Alcohol and club setup. That would be cool(: If one exists could you please post the link. Thanks.

koreanair720

Check out the appropriately named 'Blues' Aeroflot lounge at SVO and get back to me. You'll be crying out for DL's fake cheese

elitetraveler

Picture of Air China Beijing Business Class lounge -- perhaps you should check it out -

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.c...ounge-beijing/

DL definitely had a nice upgrade -- but the LH Sen lounges are definitely ahead of the new DL offerings -- at JFK and EWR the Sen lounges essentially serve hot and cold dinner, offer a selection of deserts, fresh fruit, make your own salad. AF has a nice selection of sandwiches and fresh fruit and vegetables plus soup at JFK. LX Business lounge again is much more comprehensive at JFK -- in ZRH the Sen Lounge again in terms of selection much more significant. IB and MAD -- again extensive selection of cold and hot dishes -- numerous salads and wraps, cheeses, etc. The home lounges for TG, CX, SQ and BR are again just miles ahead of the new DL offer.

In the BA F Lounge there is a menu -- the burger is well done as apparently that is the law -- they have nice salads - and on the buffet there is always curry, pasta, chili, soup, a selection of savory pies, fish cakes, often broiled salmon - hot and cold. They have a selection of sliced grapefruit, oranges, mixed fruit -- there is a selection of cheeses, there is a selection of cold sandwiches, cold cuts and sliced cheeses, plus there is whole fruit and then a variety of deserts. I won't say any of it is michelin star worthy, but i don't see anything gourmand on the new DL offerings.

Is the new DL offering better - definitely. Is it a step above the free food offered at the US, UA and AA clubs. Without doubt. Is it at the general level of the the carriers I mentioned. Not really.

355F1

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OMG, too funny....^^