Mar 4, 2015, 10:18 am
Last edit by: DELee
Pre-discussions
New United Club menus to be "announced" 4 March 2015
United Clubs to be renovated
Confirmed Clubs with New Food Offerings:
All domestic clubs now confirmed with some version of the New Food Offerings. Full spread at all domestic hubs, with cut-down or hybrid versions at most outstation clubs.
International Clubs with different catering: GUM, HKG, MEX, LHR, NRT
Updates:
October 11, 2017: A new flavor coming to United Clubs
New United Club menus to be "announced" 4 March 2015
United Clubs to be renovated
Confirmed Clubs with New Food Offerings:
All domestic clubs now confirmed with some version of the New Food Offerings. Full spread at all domestic hubs, with cut-down or hybrid versions at most outstation clubs.
International Clubs with different catering: GUM, HKG, MEX, LHR, NRT
Updates:
October 11, 2017: A new flavor coming to United Clubs
UC amenities - regular & special food / snacks, power, wifi, work areas, ...{archive}
Apr 22, 2019, 3:49 am
#2582
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I will observe a personal 7 day moratorium on complaining about the SFO UCs and their crappy food after my extremely brief foray into the AF lounge at SFO last week. The grass is not always greener.
Apr 22, 2019, 4:37 am
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Big difference is that this is an outstation lounge for AF. A fair comparison would be the AF lounges at CDG vs the UA lounges at SFO. And there AF has UA beat by a mile and then some.
Apr 22, 2019, 5:27 am
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And btw, the lounge that AF competes with at SFO is Polaris.
Apr 22, 2019, 9:28 am
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That's also an unfair comparison. Any SkyTeam Elite Plus member can get into those lounges, whereas only paid J customers get into the Polaris lounges. Don't mean to take this off topic any further, but this is apples to oranges. I'd rather compare the UCs at SFO to the AA and DL lounges at SFO, the latter of which is so much better than any of the UCs.
Apr 24, 2019, 1:53 pm
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I'm mildly surprised. When I was there a couple of years back they had fairly fresh small baguette sandwiches and wraps, along with passable French wine. I'm guessing there have been some cuts.
Apr 25, 2019, 1:32 am
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That's also an unfair comparison. Any SkyTeam Elite Plus member can get into those lounges, whereas only paid J customers get into the Polaris lounges. Don't mean to take this off topic any further, but this is apples to oranges. I'd rather compare the UCs at SFO to the AA and DL lounges at SFO, the latter of which is so much better than any of the UCs.
May 17, 2019, 3:22 pm
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ORD B6 this afternoon 2:30-3:00
-No greeting by name
-No hot food items
-No soup left
-No mints or Lifesavers
-No tonic water
-No light beer
-No pop in the self serve station
-Plenty of seating
Have not seen it this picked over in years...
-No greeting by name
-No hot food items
-No soup left
-No mints or Lifesavers
-No tonic water
-No light beer
-No pop in the self serve station
-Plenty of seating
Have not seen it this picked over in years...
May 17, 2019, 3:37 pm
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That said, I am still very happy with the offerings at the LAX UC these days.
May 17, 2019, 4:16 pm
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I'll be enjoying eggs for breakfast out on the patio tomorrow. Thankfully LAX remans consistently wonderful!
May 17, 2019, 10:18 pm
#2591
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You hit that "in-between" time when the staff gets rather lax in restocking the food area. There are periods of time, like in the afternoon, when they don't have the hot food selection out and things in general get neglected.
May 17, 2019, 11:14 pm
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Last weekend in HNL circa 430p they were serving shredded bbq pork and white rice - along with the salad it made for a very reasonable meal. They've done a little bit of re-configuring with the setup as well.
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May 18, 2019, 9:00 am
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Back at the LA club today and things are marvelous.
Jun 10, 2019, 1:20 am
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A dish not seen thus far on FT - @ ORD B18 UC on 06/04/19 around 2015 (8:15 pm):
Better when aided with either sriracha and/or tabasco...
David
Better when aided with either sriracha and/or tabasco...
David
Jun 10, 2019, 2:06 am
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