Sky Club Food Getting Better
Nov 16, 2022, 6:47 am
#1291
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: IAH
Programs: DL DM, Hyatt Ist-iest, Stariott Platinum, Hilton Diamond
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Was pretty impressed with the food at ATL B last night. I usually avoid this club like the plague, but I had to walk past it to get to my connecting gate. It was absurdly busy and hard to find a seat.
They had a lemon-something chicken that was delicious, flavorful and not dry. Pesto pasta. A pasta salad labeled as 'green goddess salad' which was pasta, green peas, halved cherry tomatoes in a pesto sauce. They also had chicken with pesto (I guess their vendor had a sale on pesto this week
) on the salad bar that when put with the pasta salad was a great combo. A solid dinner overall between two non meal flights.
Over at ATL T they had a BBQ spiced chicken which was alright, but pretty dry. May have just been the late hour (9pm ish).
They had a lemon-something chicken that was delicious, flavorful and not dry. Pesto pasta. A pasta salad labeled as 'green goddess salad' which was pasta, green peas, halved cherry tomatoes in a pesto sauce. They also had chicken with pesto (I guess their vendor had a sale on pesto this week
) on the salad bar that when put with the pasta salad was a great combo. A solid dinner overall between two non meal flights.Over at ATL T they had a BBQ spiced chicken which was alright, but pretty dry. May have just been the late hour (9pm ish).
Nov 16, 2022, 7:28 am
#1292
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Atlanta
Programs: Delta Death March, Hyatt Globalist, IHG Plat, Marriott/Hilton Gold Life
Posts: 1,547
Anyone fly through ATL in the past couple of weeks who can share what was being served at the clubs (likely I'll be at A or B)? I have a 50 min connection over dinner time on Thursday evening so wondering if I should even go in or just hit one of the fast food places. TIA!
There is also semi-grab-and-go pastries, even though it's frowned upon.
As a proxy for dinner, they are taking extra care to keep it moving - the potato bar and chicken and stuff are common, as is pasta and loaded/flavorful soups i.e. nacho soup.
Nov 16, 2022, 3:56 pm
#1293
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. / Washington, DC
Programs: AA PPro/DL PLT, PPass, Marriott / Hilton Gold, JetBlue Mosaic, Hertz Presidents Circle, Amex Plat
Posts: 4,631
For the first time since the JFK Centurion Lounge opened, I found better choices at the SkyClub.
I usually stop by the CL as it is right past TSA and if I like what they have, I stay there until close to departure. This past Monday, the CL menu didn’t look appealing so went to the Skyclub as my flight was leaving from B33, and to my surprise, the lunch selection was amazing.
I usually stop by the CL as it is right past TSA and if I like what they have, I stay there until close to departure. This past Monday, the CL menu didn’t look appealing so went to the Skyclub as my flight was leaving from B33, and to my surprise, the lunch selection was amazing.
May 11, 2023, 11:06 am
#1294
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Programs: Formaldehyde Medallion DL DieMiles
Posts: 12,646
I went to the ATL A terminal center-court club last Sunday hoping to grab a late breakfast. Admittedly, at 10:30 AM, I was expecting too much. Most of the offerings were depleted, but staff had not begun clearing out the breakfast items and bringing out lunch.
I decided that I would settle for a bowl of grits. But, in spite of warm grits and a selection of pastries still being available, there was no butter available. I asked one of the I'm-just-here-putting-in-my-time contract employees if there was any butter available and I was told that there was none. I then asked a DL employee and was told that they had run out of butter the previous Friday.
I asked why they could not obtain butter from one of the other 8 clubs at ATL, and was told that each terminal at ATL was run as a separate "station" (I assume this meant profit center) and this limited a club in one terminal from acquiring supplies from another club in a different terminal.
Really!?!?!
The DL employee told me that, if moved to the club at A19, they were likely to have butter. This left the obvious question: Even if that club could not obtain butter from another club in a different terminal, and if the DL employee was so confident that A19 would have butter, why couldn't the A center-court club obtain butter from the A19 club?
This is a small matter in the universal scheme of things, and I am no doubt healthier forgoing the butter**, but it does reinforce reservations about DL's lessening focus on customer service.
** I offset the health effect of forgoing the butter when I found pimento cheese salad in the B club. Pimento cheese salad -- one of the few good reasons for visiting the SkyClub food bar.
I decided that I would settle for a bowl of grits. But, in spite of warm grits and a selection of pastries still being available, there was no butter available. I asked one of the I'm-just-here-putting-in-my-time contract employees if there was any butter available and I was told that there was none. I then asked a DL employee and was told that they had run out of butter the previous Friday.
I asked why they could not obtain butter from one of the other 8 clubs at ATL, and was told that each terminal at ATL was run as a separate "station" (I assume this meant profit center) and this limited a club in one terminal from acquiring supplies from another club in a different terminal.
Really!?!?!
The DL employee told me that, if moved to the club at A19, they were likely to have butter. This left the obvious question: Even if that club could not obtain butter from another club in a different terminal, and if the DL employee was so confident that A19 would have butter, why couldn't the A center-court club obtain butter from the A19 club?
This is a small matter in the universal scheme of things, and I am no doubt healthier forgoing the butter**, but it does reinforce reservations about DL's lessening focus on customer service.
** I offset the health effect of forgoing the butter when I found pimento cheese salad in the B club. Pimento cheese salad -- one of the few good reasons for visiting the SkyClub food bar.
May 11, 2023, 1:57 pm
#1296
Join Date: Oct 2022
Posts: 29
For the first time since the JFK Centurion Lounge opened, I found better choices at the SkyClub.
I usually stop by the CL as it is right past TSA and if I like what they have, I stay there until close to departure. This past Monday, the CL menu didn’t look appealing so went to the Skyclub as my flight was leaving from B33, and to my surprise, the lunch selection was amazing.
I usually stop by the CL as it is right past TSA and if I like what they have, I stay there until close to departure. This past Monday, the CL menu didn’t look appealing so went to the Skyclub as my flight was leaving from B33, and to my surprise, the lunch selection was amazing.
May 11, 2023, 7:25 pm
#1297
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. / Washington, DC
Programs: AA PPro/DL PLT, PPass, Marriott / Hilton Gold, JetBlue Mosaic, Hertz Presidents Circle, Amex Plat
Posts: 4,631
Not my experience at SEA a few weeks ago. The SkyClub breakfast offering left a lot to be desired, while the Centurion Lounge had much more variety and better. Coffee was indeed great.
May 11, 2023, 9:13 pm
#1298
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: West of CLE
Programs: Delta DM/3 MM; Hertz PC; National EE; Amtrak GR; Bonvoy Silver; Via Rail Préférence
Posts: 5,384
The BOS Gates 1-11 Sky Club had this extremely moist, cinnamon flavored cake that was out of this world on Tuesday 5/9.
May 11, 2023, 9:39 pm
#1299
Join Date: May 2011
Location: NYC
Programs: DL PM. 1MM
Posts: 2,045
btw, taco bar at LAX ends at 7PM. luckily we arrived in time to grab tacos at 6:45.. they were out of salsa but... we'll live.
