Honest Bao

Airport food is usually the culinary equivalent of a lukewarm, soggy handshake. It's overpriced, underwhelming, and you feel a bit foolish paying me £10 for a sad-looking sandwich you know a pigeon wouldn't touch or by trying to get yourself ready for holiday by drinking the 3rd pint at 6am in Weatherspoon. Thanks to a glorious, 2 hour-long flight delay at Birmingham Airport, I found myself with a mission: To see if a lounge could actually make airport dining not feel like a daylight robbery. Let's enter The Club Room. Nice decor with dark tone The decor is actually rather good. Think sophisticated, dark tones, moody lighting—the kind of place where you could almost forget you're about to be crammed next to a snoring stranger for 2 hours.   Service was friendly, if a tad slow on the food delivery front. Maybe they were hunting down the ingredients in the local farmer's market, who knows? Good crab toast, surprise me only serve 1 piece of toast Now for the main event...