Anyone been able to find the menu PDFs please? I can only seem to find a long list of text which isn't particularly easy to readNew autumn menus on the website today. Eggs Royale has been added as a breakfast option on the Dine Menu.
First Class Menu | LNER
Enjoy luxurious travel and exquisite food when you travel first class with LNER. Our menu regularly changes but always includes vegan, vegetarian and gluten free options.www.lner.co.uk
I think this is the first time steak of any sort has appeared on the menu since the end of restaurant cars back in 2011?New autumn menus on the website today. Eggs Royale has been added as a breakfast option on the Dine Menu.
First Class Menu | LNER
Enjoy luxurious travel and exquisite food when you travel first class with LNER. Our menu regularly changes but always includes vegan, vegetarian and gluten free options.
Sorry I can't answer your question, but I'm curious whether the staff onboard would accommodate requests for the Steak to be cooked well done- as someone who doesn't like eating steak which has been cooked medium.
Surely a PDF is only going to be laid out the same way it is on that webpage? Not sure what you mean by "long list of text"?
Prefer medium-rare myself. Maybe it's pre-cooked? Seems a bit odd to offer steak, but the usual level of cooking preference.
No pdfs, but here's some pics.
I caught the 13:00 Kings Cross to Edinburgh in May. I arrived in the lounge about half an hour or so before the HC was due boarding, and it was rammed. Never seen it so busy. Had a job finding somewhere to sit. Quietened down a bit when that train came up, and lots of people left.
Isn’t that all it’s ever been? Slightly better seats and the chance of a free cup of tea. What other expectations would you have - a live floor show? Wine tasting sessions? The complete inconsistency of the on-train offer in first class depending on crew attitude and service time is a much more serious customer service issue.
Edinburgh firstclass lounge is adequate-but-spartan.. Could do with slightly less crappy coffee machines, and maybe something more than water in the cold drink offering, but are quietish and cleanish.
Try some decent business class airport lounges and you'll see what LNER's lounges are missing. Decent coffee, proper hot food, relaxing music etc.
And even when there is a Dine train at a suitable time, the catering is often downgraded at short notice!
I get the impression they were just absolutely furious that people sometimes took a can with them, so they got rid of the fridge entirely. Personally i would have thought switching the drinks over to Pepsi would have done the trick
I have no issue with 2 hours, however they sometimes rigidly enforce 1 hour on Sundays, which is absurd when you have a generous cross London connection.
)I'll be subject to the 1 hour thing, on my return journey in December, in the York lounge, because it's a Friday evening. That may, or may not, be an issue, depending on what I end up doing that day. The past few years I've visited York, I've returned home on a Thursday, so it wasn't a consideration.I have no issue with 2 hours, however they sometimes rigidly enforce 1 hour on Sundays, which is absurd when you have a generous cross London connection.
The sort of people who make these rules don't travel by train or, if they do, they don't have to worry about connection times and that sort of thing. Nor do they consult people who do.
They could consult forum members, but I'm pretty sure that would go against LNER's entire ethos
And once again, LNER doesn’t just serve Newcastle and Edinburgh. UK domestic airline routes are a complete irrelevance to the vast majority of rail travellers. Perhaps if all the incredibly important Londoners who absolutely must get to Edinburgh very quickly just got themselves off to BA Club World then there’d be a bit more room on the trains for travellers to all the other stations. Rail could then stop having to pander to the kind of up-themselves “business traveller” who thinks that frequent flyer miles, golf club membership, and knowing the details of airport lounges are things to be aspired to.
You’d have a better time waiting in the York Tap - decent pork pies and both soft and licensed drinks.
The whole revamp of the East Coast timetable in December is based on providing extra capacity to Edinburgh. A few other places get minor improvements (and a fair few lose out), but that's the major change.
Of course not. But they are clearly two of their most important markets commercially speaking, and they're the whole reason that other local flows are being shafted in the December timetable change.
To rail travellers overall across the country, yes. But to LNER passengers - of whom the London-Newcastle/Edinburgh flows make up a substantial proportion - they are much more likely to be relevant.
Yawn. All I'm saying is that LNER's lounges really aren't competitive with the airlines. Given the prices they charge for first class, it really should be better.
It's not about aspiring to those things but about making the travel experience as comfortable as possible when you're travelling regularly or on a tight schedule.
Another problem I noticed with the lounge was getting to it. Unless there was a secret staircase I didn't notice, it was mainly by 1 lift that featured a queue (because that was the only way up it seems). Exiting to the platforms wasn't so bad.
If they are paranoid about that, perhaps they could do what certain restaurants do and have a draught machine: customers can fill up a glass as often as needed in the lounge, but this stops taking any soft drink volume out of the lounge. Of course clever folk could fill up a refill bottle instead, but there you could just enforce a rule against it.
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