Butts
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Unless LNER Lounges have improved vastly posst-covid most of them were "Tea and Biscuits"
Virgin/Avanti had a lot more fayre for your fare
Virgin/Avanti had a lot more fayre for your fare
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There's crisps as wellUnless LNER Lounges have improved vastly posst-covid most of them were "Tea and Biscuits"
Virgin/Avanti had a lot more fayre for your fare
Butts
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20g size ???
Remember the good old days when Virgin Lounges had Walkers Grab Bag's full 50g jobbies.
dave87016
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Last time I went to Glasgow pre covid it was one of the better ones , they had crisps , pretzels , cherry bakewells , biscuits fruit and of course a couple of the usual coffee machines
Stathern Jc
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From where I sit reading this I may have misinterpreted this post
Andy Pacer
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Would this have been the Avanti lounge?
dave87016
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Oops my bad I just realised - yea your right apologies I didn’t mean to hijack the thread
DeverseSam
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How long does a journey need to be before being offered food / alcohol?
TT-ONR-NRN
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They say 70 minutes but it can be more or less depending on the crew.
I don't think there ever was any limit for alcohol was there? And the 70 minute limit was for hot food iirc? But they seem to have dumped the 70 minute rule completely now, as there no mention of it anywhere in their publicity. Instead it says this...."If your journey with us is less than 45 minutes, please check with your host what food options are available."
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I've recently regularly got food between York and Newcastle - and yesterday a vodka. Will be doing again tomorrow.
TT-ONR-NRN
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45 minutes is far more reasonable. 70 minutes is very stingy. So was the one meal only rule for London to Edinburgh. On Virgin Trains you were always offered more after Preston, and that's not about being greedy, it's about the offering in relation to the journey time.
I see LNER are advertising a special "Festive menu" coming soon for Wednesday 30 November 2022 to Wednesday 4 January 2023. No details yet though. Anyone know what it might contain? Or will it be like last year's "Christmas" menu, which was exactly the same (as far as I could see) as the normal menu, except that it had "Christmas Menu" written, and reindeer pictures, on it.....
Butts
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Surely they at least had mince pies ?
So called "Christmas menu" on the website now. I'm not impressed. No more cooked breakfast on any trains. No more sausage sandwich. No more meals.
That's a fairly typical menu from memory (might actually be a bit better than some past years!). Prior to Covid they would basically just shut down the enter catering operation other than a couple of hot items. The big difference this time though is in the time span. It used to kick in a day or two before Christmas and then run through to the first working day after New Year's day. To have run through all of December is new "innovation". For the week between Christmas and New Year it always felt acceptable. But for the entirety of December? Now that's stingy.
Oh, ok.
Unstoppable
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Bacon Roll
Was anyone else expecting a hot meal?
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Bletchleyite
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*Chicken* and stuffing? Talk about cheaping out. I'd get a proper Christmas *turkey* and stuffing sandwich from Marks!
I also see no fruit cake.
That's a very poor offering indeed.
I also see no fruit cake.
That's a very poor offering indeed.
Pretty rubbish, really. They’d be better off not publicising it!
Unfortunately this is an example of how Covid was used as a convenient excuse to remove “nice to haves” which have not been replaced.
We used to have chefs on our trains offering a full cooked meal option. These days it’s a sub m&s quality sandwich and a cereal bar if you’re lucky.
Unfortunately this is an example of how Covid was used as a convenient excuse to remove “nice to haves” which have not been replaced.
We used to have chefs on our trains offering a full cooked meal option. These days it’s a sub m&s quality sandwich and a cereal bar if you’re lucky.
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StarCrossing
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Well done to the person who managed to use over 50 words just to describe the sausage roll!
Pepsi not Coke - that's a major change.
If the bacon roll and sausage roll are returning to be all-day items then I am all for this menu. Those two are in my opinion the greatest all-day options LNER ever offered.
But if, as I fear, they are only for breakfast then the rest-of-day stuff really sucks.
If the bacon roll and sausage roll are returning to be all-day items then I am all for this menu. Those two are in my opinion the greatest all-day options LNER ever offered.
But if, as I fear, they are only for breakfast then the rest-of-day stuff really sucks.
Bletchleyite
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Even if that is breakfast it's weak. Surely they could manage a Pret or Leon style "egg pot"?
dodecahedron67
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They've ditched the waffles - that's poor. Was my favourite item on last year's christmas menu and then they reintroduced them but as breakfast only for the regular menu earlier this year
Stuffing mayonnaise, whatever that is.
Sounds great to me. With turkey that is.
Garbage, why bother.
dk1
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That doesn’t sound very indulgent does it?? Ho-Ho-Ho-Not.