Current Qantas First Lounge Menu (SYD/MEL) and relevant topics

[serfty]

Unlike MEL, SYD doesn't have any other convenient spaces

SYD FLounge still has an area with three of the original white desks. It is up from the Bar near the showers, just across from the "privileged" dining area.

There is at least one printer available although the iMacs are long gone.

Competition for the desks is high in the mornings.

 

[SYD]

SYD FLounge still has an area with three of the original white desks. It is up from the Bar, before the showers. It is across from the "privileged" area.

There is at least one printer there although the iMacs are long gone.

Competition for them is high in the mornings.

From memory at least three if not four work desks.

Plus two or it’s it three conference rooms! If one really needs to polish that last minute PPT, phone ahead to book a room.

 

[bernardblack]

I'm in F on QF7, with a scheduled departure 12:00, next week. I understand the menu cutover from breakfast to lunch is 11:00. What are the odds I can (from the reserved F area) get breakfast then place an order right on 11:00 and get to try the lunch menu too, before I have to board?

 

[anat0l]

I'm in F on QF7, with a scheduled departure 12:00, next week. I understand the menu cutover from breakfast to lunch is 11:00. What are the odds I can (from the reserved F area) get breakfast then place an order right on 11:00 and get to try the lunch menu too, before I have to board?

Pretty thin chance (or fat chance?) in my opinion.

You'd have to place an order, receive the order, eat it, and then go to board. Sure, QF7 is likely to board probably closer to the lounge (i.e. it won't be Concourse C), but boarding normally starts at about 45 minutes before departure; final calls probably issued at around 20 minutes before departure. Expecting all of the first sentence to happen in 15 minutes is ambitious at best.

Maybe you can try and ask the server if they can place an order or heads up the kitchen to start an order immediately at 11 am, that would improve your odds. Chances will also improve if it's a smaller plate, e.g. fried squid, and one plate.

 

[serfty]

I'm in F on QF7, with a scheduled departure 12:00, next week. I understand the menu cutover from breakfast to lunch is 11:00. What are the odds I can (from the reserved F area) get breakfast then place an order right on 11:00 and get to try the lunch menu too, before I have to board?

Maybe you can try and ask the server if they can place an order or heads up the kitchen to start an order immediately at 11 am, that would improve your odds. Chances will also improve if it's a smaller plate, e.g. fried squid, and one plate.

Yes, I have previously vworked with staff to have all day dining food delivered strait after 11am, but it was rushed.

Since @bernardblack is in First, they may be able to work with staff to arrange an earlier "lunch".

 

[peach iced tea]

Yes, I have previously vworked with staff to have all day dining food delivered strait after 11am, but it was rushed.

Since @bernardblack is in First, they may be able to work with staff to arrange an earlier "lunch".

I guess it depends if the kitchen is ready?
Maybe a pavlova would be easy to order

 

[mad_atta]

The pork belly, grilled cabbage with bonito butter was the best thing I’ve had at this lounge in the last few years. I’d love for them to keep this cabbage on the menu even without the proteins.

Don't forget the spanner crab in there making it extra delicious!

I said much the same thing - probably the best thing I've ever had in the lounge. As I recall mine looked a bit different but was clearly similarly delicious. Looking forward to trying it again in a couple of weeks time - should make up for the (likely very weak) onboard catering on QF41.

 

[sudoer]

It feels like there's been a concerted effort to lift the quality of the all day menu quality this year, both in the regular F restaurant sections (e.g. making the minute steak available, adding the signature cheeseburger, etc) and in the quality of the F/P1 dishes. Sadly that doesn't seem to have extended to the breakfast menu, which if anything, has gone backwards. It would be nice if breakfast was varied a little more, and there was something extra for the roped section.

The below three dishes are from the all day F/P1 menu.


Raw Australian tuna with green apple, lime, avocado and corn tostadas
This was a miss - tostadas nowhere to be seen and the lime juice was overpowering.


NZ little neck clams with egg noodle, spring onion and XO butter
Delicious, would absolutely order again. Quite a generous portion too (counted 15 clam shells left at the end!)


Beef short rib with caramelised onions, celeriac puree and red wine sauce
I thought the clams would be the highlight, but this stole the show. The beef was fall-apart tender - to this point it could be eaten without a knife. The onions were perfectly caramelised too, and the puree was smooth and buttery.


Pavlova / Lark Devil's Storm No.183
As I write this post I've realised the pavlova was supposed to be strawberry and pomegranate, but was mostly passionfruit. It was still as good as usual. The Lark was nice, but I am far from a whisky connoisseur and admittedly only ordered this as an impulse because it was on the P1 menu. Don't ask me to describe it as anything other than "drinkable"

 

[bernardblack]

As a QF-metal F pax, are they still doing the call/email the day before to book a spa slot? Or do I have to just arrive early and hope there is space? (Ticket was booked through AA and not QF, if that is relevant.)