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delicious evening meals (by the sounds of it they are anything but delicious, and the choices i have seen have been quite poor). All this to the detriment of the near constant at seat supply of tea and biscuits.
I would not say the evening meals don't taste good, they are not as good as what on offer in the restuarant (and included in the ticket price for many).
Many of my fears have proved to be correct, such as order upon departure point of service, waiting until York could result in no food.
In summary from personal experience.
Breakfast - Does what it says on the tin, not as good as pre- May 22nd in terms of quality but quality always suffers as volume increases. I AP ticket holder will be happy, someone who paid for Breakfast before will notice the difference in quality.
All Day - Absolute shambles, needs sorting very quickly, poor choice, never personally seen a hot meal, if you don't know what is on offer you don't get told, menus often missing etc. Definate downgrade from the at seat offering.
Evening (Northbound) - Again no way near as good as the previous offering if you went to the restuarant so a downgrade to people who did have 3 course meals included in their tickets. But people who choose not to go to the restuarant will again be happy, but people who used the restuarant won't be. London - Leeds route big winner here as most London - Newcastle & Edinburgh services had a restuarant.
Evening (Southbound) - as per all day.
The free drinks are OK but remember you are gready if you want more than one, which considering that the stella is in small cans you need 2 anyway to be equal to what you previously bought!
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Virgin is (currently) KING of complimentary catering. Their Breakfast and Evening Meal service on Pendolinos is excellent!
Well I will be making a return to Virgin to compare, now that east coasts service has gone down so badly. From experiece Breakfast and the evening meal were very good (as long as they didn't run out of food in the evening). Good selection and good quality. Here comes the BUT - this only applies to the pendo's. I understand the Voyagers have improved, but I gave up on them a long time ago, the difference in fare was too high to justify a microwaved bacon roll when the morning trains from Edinburgh - Birmingham were fairly empty until Preston and you have lots of space in the coach where the shop is (can't remember if that is B or D)