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Is it just me or does anyone else think BA lounge food is a tad school dinnerish or work café? Nothing much to get excited about here. Curries. Fishcakes. And some unappealing salads. Feels v John Lewis cafe (although tbf John Lewis serves far better than this nowadays).
I also detest Prosecco. There are lots of good Method C wines around and at good value.
What’s your favourite biz lounge?
You detest Prosecco, fair enough, a lot of people like it but you can request champagne if you’d prefer, just find a lounge attendant and ask.
Re food, yes it’s nothing amazing but the 5B lounge does have an order bar when you can request a small selection of additional items.
Best business lounge I have been too is probably one of the QR lounges, SIN is great for a more intimate feel, but the Al Mourjan in DOH is also impressive. Back at LHR T3 QF/CX lounges have a good offering.
Actually I think BA business lounge is better than , sky team LHR, ANA in Haneda , Singapore in Singapore and Sydney, Swiss in Zurich, and perhaps Al Mourjan which is just to big, but food is better.
On otherhand BA so called first lounge (oK it’s a gold Lounge CCR is real first) , is far worse than any other oneworld first lounge anywhere.
I think you are being overly mean about the food. I like the small pies and bhajees. It’s British Airways after all. The wine is crap though. The best business class wine I remember was the cava in the 4S Iberia lounge in Madrid. And as for that pink shite they offer…
Madrid 4S is a great lounge for wine, food was a bit meh.
US lounges get flack, but United Polaris in Houston (flying SQ) – cocktail bar very very good and AA Flagship in Miami (flying IB) were really good I thought.
OP you are on the money with your description, the food is inedible in my opinion.
All buffet food tends to be garbage.
Ooh, the small pies. Fantastic! The curry is also usually good. My wife is GF and they cater for her needs perfectly. And champagne is available if you ask.
If you pick the right bits there’s a perfectly good meal available. I always find the salad bar well stocked and agree the curries are very good. I would like them spicier but can’t complain.
The pies are also good but I’ve always found the fishcakes dry.
Sometimes you need to look past your preconceptions and actually dive in.
I think I mentioned previous how curries are perfectly suited to buffet style serving if they are cooked and stored well. Sometimes they’ll be the best curries you’ve ever tasted.
I rather enjoyed the ‘picky bits’ food I had on my first ever visit to the LHR T5 BA lounges a few months ago (was there mid-afternoon so too late for lunch too early for dinner). Perhaps I have an unrefined palate, or perhaps is there a little of whatever the food equivalent of hedonic adaptation is amongst those who are regular and long-time BA lounge visitors? I thought the pulled beef bonbons and mini pies I had were good, and the other bits were pretty decent too. I’m at LGW in a few weeks and hope the food in the BA lounge there is similar, it’s another awkwardly timed afternoon flight but I may try some of the hot food this time.
The food seemed to go downhill after covid, but the most annoying things are the stupidly sized/shaped plates and no mineral water. Also those crap muffin rolls instead of the actual bread rolls that they used to give when it was qr code ordering.
If you compare it to the cathay and qantas lounges, its bad, but then at t5 the alternates are the now-awful plaza and the aspire which was always bad.
The plates are small on purpose, so you can carry two in one hand 😉 The “mineral water” is now filtered, but the old mineral water was awful anyway – Harrogate or Hilton or other rubbish.
I think people ask too much for a standard lounge. Unless you’re F it’s a place to relax whilst you wait, not a resturant. Free-flowing drinks and “small plates”. You’d be paying a lot more to get into the Qantas lounge!
I really don’t get the issue with filtered ilo mineral. Drinking Water in the U.K. is absolutely fine especially when filtered.
Re plates they are small so you can keep going back for more instead of taking too much and wasting 50% of what you’ve piled onto your plate.
I really don’t get the issue with filtered ilo mineral. Drinking Water in the U.K. is absolutely fine especially when filtered.
Re plates they are small so you can keep going back for more instead of taking too much and wasting 50% of what you’ve piled onto your plate.
Agreed, having said that the plates in GF are of a normal size so this inconvenience is avoided if you have access.
I really don’t get the issue with filtered ilo mineral. Drinking Water in the U.K. is absolutely fine especially when filtered.
UK water is fine – period. What I don’t like is there is no bottled water to take with you to the plane. I will buy/drink at least 1.5L on a long-haul flight – I know I could take an empty bottle but I’d have to ditch it anyway at the destination.
Branded water bottles or similar would be a great idea, even if there was a £1 voluntary donation to charity.
Agree our water is absolutely fine – and the BA lounges also have the cucumber/mint and lemon/lime infused dispensers if you want more flavour.
I tend to take extra water refills on long flights as I find BA very stingy with it; I’ve never had to ditch an empty bottle anywhere, and never had an issue taking one through security (except at MAN, but that’s MAN!)
I always bring an empty 750ml re-usable bottle through security and then fill it up in the lounge before heading to the gate.
No need it to ditch anything at the destination!
I really don’t get the issue with filtered ilo mineral. Drinking Water in the U.K. is absolutely fine especially when filtered.
UK water is fine – period. What I don’t like is there is no bottled water to take with you to the plane. I will buy/drink at least 1.5L on a long-haul flight – I know I could take an empty bottle but I’d have to ditch it anyway at the destination.
Branded water bottles or similar would be a great idea, even if there was a £1 voluntary donation to charity.
Water in the South is absolute garbage.
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