New Adelaide Qantas Club & Business Lounge

[SYD]

Italian makes a lot of sense for Adelaide. The problem I see is that I have little faith it will be implemented well. Put up a paltry effort and every Italian mama in Adelaide will be assaulting the lounge staff with wooden spoons, and it will be deserved.

Lasagne sounds great until you realise everyone will take the edge pieces first (or pass up the tray until a new one comes out with edge pieces), plus I have little faith in people to actually dish up a block of lasagne (let alone a scoop) neatly. It's gonna look like a dog's breakfast (or what it ate, but thrown up) very quickly. Taking a step back, if the lounge doesn't bother to make a good lasagne al forno in house and just get a mass catered one... I'm sure we've had enough of those, and they are horrid (the sugo is tasteless, the cheese is cheap and there's hardly any meat).

The presumption for say lasagne is it’s behind the counter and you get a portion served by staff (same as MEL).

Some quality antipasti, served with charred Italian bread, would be a winner, but it has to be good quality stuff, i.e. not just Don salami which you get at the supermarket.

But conceptionaly a sound idea.

Tuna or fish might be offered as plates of the day. I wouldn't go down the sushi path as that's likely to be mass made and horrible.

Not if it’s made as they go….

 

[JessicaTam]

Pie Floaters for mains with FruChocs or frog cakes for dessert!

 

[fletty]

They occasionally serve lasagna from the Brisbane 'cantina' bar, has been imo one of the better meals.

 

[Cloud9]

They occasionally serve lasagna from the Brisbane 'cantina' bar, has been imo one of the better meals.

Yeah, but I always get disappointed that the Cantina doesn't have the band.

 

[DC3]

Pie Floaters for mains with FruChocs or frog cakes for dessert!

Bring back the Pie Cart outside of the Adelaide Railway Station

 

[Daver6]

Pie Floaters for mains with FruChocs or frog cakes for dessert!

While they're at it, Stobie poles for the apron lighting. What could possibly go wrong

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Pie Floaters for mains with FruChocs or frog cakes for dessert!

CL only.
Too expensive for us plebs.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Still closed off as of now.

 

[DC3]

While they're at it, Stobie poles for the apron lighting. What could possibly go wrong

Poochie may appreciate the proximity of a Stobie Pole.

 

[justinbrett]

They occasionally serve lasagna from the Brisbane 'cantina' bar, has been imo one of the better meals.

Hasn’t been the Cantina since 2019.

It’s now “The Oven” and lost all its Mexican theming.

Thread 'No Más Nachos - Brisbane J Lounge'

Nov 24, 2019

I'll definitely concede that the beef nachos were getting a little tired at the Brisbane Domestic J lounge - but noticed on Friday night they were gone. Replaced by "The Oven" serving a Beef Ragu and some other vegetarian option. It wasn't terrible but could have just been served up in the warmers with the other hot food - it wasn't really making the most of the fresh hot food station idea that the Mexican Cantina had - as does the Melbourne Spice Bar and the Perth Pizzas.

I think they stuck with the nachos a bit too long, they have had more interesting Mexican food like tacos and...

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[AustraliaPoochie]

If they are or were going to open in the next few days or weeks, the hoarding would have been taken down by now (eh ?), and they would put that black x fencing thing up, as they have got for the shops in the international departures side of ADL airport, when there are no international flights, you know, the black x fencing thing.
But what do I know, all I did was take the pix.
Flew ADL - MEL with VA, so didnt use the QP this trip, flew MEL - ADL with QF, as in the MEL J lounge pix on the other sub site, and the inflight J meal of Ploughmans Snack, ...

 

[JessicaTam]

Still closed off as of now.

That is just the small section where the old entrance was. That is being turned into more space in the QP.

The new entrance is to the left of your pic. Timber desk with entrances to J and QP off to each side. There are just some planter boxes blocking off the the J lounge.

 

[DC3]

Still closed off as of now.

Yours seems to be the latest photo that we can go by.

 

[moa999]

So J might open soon, but probably a bit longer to complete the final QP (taking over the old entrance space)

 

[Matt_01]

So J might open soon, but probably a bit longer to complete the final QP (taking over the old entrance space)

I seem to recall that may have happened in MEL, once the J lounge opened QF when to work on fixing the QP area that had been the temporary entrance to the old J lounge.