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Hi,
I realise there is a lot of chat about the best OW lounge in T3, but a lot of it seems to be based around evening meals. I will arrive at a lounge around 9am. Do any of the OW lounges offer a good a la carte breakfast, like Virgin? Thanks!
Qantas has a great breakfast menu, served from 9.30 am, so that should suit you. Very occasionally they send you away if they are very busy and you’re not flying QF – check the long Flyertalk thread for recent experiences.
CX opens at 5.30 am, but I’ve never been impressed with their breakfast buffet. Not had chance to try their F offering yet.
Hi,
I realise there is a lot of chat about the best OW lounge in T3, but a lot of it seems to be based around evening meals. I will arrive at a lounge around 9am. Do any of the OW lounges offer a good a la carte breakfast, like Virgin? Thanks!
How are you entering the lounges? By virtue of ticket type or OW status? If status, which status? We’ll then know exactly which lounges you have access to
Hi, I’m flying business with AA. Thanks.
If you want to order off a menu QF would be best but as mentioned it may not start until 0930, before that there is very little available.
CX J section is buffet and noodle bar only, to get into the F section which has a la carte dining you need to be oneworld emerald or flying in F
If you are early / have lots of time you can go to CX and see what you think, then move over to QF (sit downstairs in the restaurant section for table service)
I’d likely just go to BA or AA. Cereal, a bacon sandwich, maybe a pastry if fresh. That would leave me happy enough.
Thanks all 👍
Im BA Silver and flying BA (CE) from T3 this morning, went to Cathay Business lounge for an hour, was like 4 people in there and breakfast offering was good, but not as extensive hot offering as say BA. I understand they cater for their main clientele so it might not be that popular anyway.
Just sat in BA lounge and what a difference, probably 75% full at 7am but food I have to say is better for breakfast. I will try Quantas lounge next time.I’ve found CX buffet breakfast underwhelming both times I’ve been in there first thing in the morning.
QF a la carte breakfast is terrific, but doesn’t start until 9.30 am, so no good for an early flight.
BA buffet was on a par with CX, but no alternatives to the traditional English bits and pieces.
Not there now until November as I’m doing a lot of MAN-MAD-XXX travel this year, but looking forward to trying the F/gold lounge offerings.I genuinely dont think many people realise they can use other OW lounges, CX is far superior than the BA lounge, and judging by what various vloggers say, QF and AA are also better. I cant think of any reason why someone with eligibility to BA lounge, could not use the other OW ones except for capacity reasons.
QF a la carte breakfast is terrific, but doesn’t start until 9.30 am, so no good for an early flight.
Is the QF breakfast buffet any good? Better or worse than the CX buffet? I have an upcoming flight at 9ish so can’t be there for a la carte
Much of a muchness, only tried it once. They did have some different things like a goat cheese tart as well as cooked items.
What really annoyed me though, was that you still had to go to the bar and queue to get coffee! That’s probably why we haven’t tried it since.
QF a la carte breakfast is terrific, but doesn’t start until 9.30 am, so no good for an early flight.
Is the QF breakfast buffet any good? Better or worse than the CX buffet? I have an upcoming flight at 9ish so can’t be there for a la carte
The QF buffet at breakfast (or the middle of the day when the restaurant is closed) is really quite poor, well sub BA but the lounge is much quieter. Think sausages two grades below BA, flaccid cheap bacon, post nuclear scrambled eggs and viennoiseries that look as though someone has sat on them, and feel/taste several days old. The lunch buffet is extremely limited and quite peculiar.
Staff are good, coffee is good (although to be fair the BA Union coffee is decent) and the loos are quite a few notches above BA. The wine is so so. The restaurant, when open, is a nicer space than upstairs but the food is fine, but isn’t exactly anything to write home about. As the Michelin would say, ne vaut pas le détour.
There’s something of a trade off in the T3 lounges particularly if, like us, you don’t want to be on one of these lounge safaris some profess to enjoy. Centurion has made the best of a not very nice space but is looking a bit shabby and is often crowded or actually full. It seems to attract many who both appear never to have seen food before and also display remarkable generosity in sharing their germs with everyone.
CX generally seems to be perceived as the best so has become rather crowded, QF, as above has good and bad elements. Not sure about AA but all this actually leaves BA as a good contender along with QF.
Think sausages two grades below BA
Is that before or after the recent BA sausage ‘enhancements’ which were mentioned recently?
Think sausages two grades below BA
Is that before or after the recent BA sausage ‘enhancements’ which were mentioned recently?
Haha! Yes, I did factor that in so QF only two notches below. I actually think the issue with the new BA sausages is more that they are a bit different rather than bad and nobody here seems to like change. They are more like Irish sausages which are quite different to English ones.
Is that before or after the recent BA sausage ‘enhancements’ which were mentioned recently?
That other thread on sausage enhancements did make me chuckle! I wonder if they’re any worse than the ones you get in wetherspoons for breakfast
CX generally seems to be perceived as the best so has become rather crowded, QF, as above has good and bad elements.
Yes agreed – I always just use the CX lounge when flying out of T3. Although having grown up in HK may have contributed as to why I have a preference for it. My partner still thinks that it’s weird having noodles for breakfast!
It was also a bit odd in the upstairs at QF just before Christmas, they had two hot dishes which didn’t look too appealing so I didn’t investigate further, but a largish family did and called over a staff member who confirmed both contained pork.
When the father told her they couldn’t eat either, her response was, if you want anything hot you’ll have to! As it happens, the only other meat on display was licky ham. Not sure how an international airline managed that.
QF has a huge selection of gins (the pink grapefruit cocktail is delicious), and a jar of nice (wrapped!) fudge on the bar.
I’m not a huge fan of bacon or sausage; smoked salmon is my thing at breakfast, but out of all the LHR lounges I’ve been in I’ve only seen it in QF and the CCR.
QF has a huge selection of gins (the pink grapefruit cocktail is delicious), and a jar of nice (wrapped!) fudge on the bar.
I’m not a huge fan of bacon or sausage; smoked salmon is my thing at breakfast, but out of all the LHR lounges I’ve been in I’ve only seen it in QF and the CCR.
I am addicted to smoked salmon and get regular deliveries from around the country (and, like sausages, there’s smoked salmon and smoked salmon) but not often for breakfast. Love all things pig (I’m sure you must eat pig’s ear in Spain? Particularly if you have Galician heritage) but not really at home so English breakfast is a treat.
The sausages complained of are probably being consumed at home by many as they are from a fairly well known manufacturer that sells in most supermarkets.
I’m also an addict, particularly with poached eggs or some nice cheese (or both).
Ears definitely don’t appeal, but I do love jamón ibérico (though unlike Georgina Rodríguez I don’t get to eat it on a private jet 😂), and always bring several large packets of it home after each visit.
Useful comments. I’ve got a 10:00 flight out of T3 next month, and would have gone to the Cathay lounge. Will give BA another go, just for the breakfast. Not been in there for many years, and was not impressed in the past. Although maybe I should try AA instead, as I’ve never used that lounge, even when flying AA! I won’t have time to do both.
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