I still remember that everyone on the plane was served an in-flight meal on a small aluminum tray.

Breakfast was probably the best you could wish for, but even that wasn’t particularly tasty, often consisting of soggy scrambled eggs and rubbery bacon.

Since today’s in-flight menu usually consists of a few warm sandwiches, we decided to eat at the airport instead.

Since we couldn’t get a table at the newer The Lion and Antelope Pub & Kitchen in Terminal 3, we went to Trattoria Milano.

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Although it may be a typical Italian pizza and pasta restaurant, it also serves breakfast and small snacks.

Since we had a four-hour flight ahead of us, the Massimo breakfast was the obvious choice – with two slices of bacon, two sausages, a rösti, beans, tomatoes, black pudding and scrambled eggs.

At a whopping £16 you’d expect at least a piece of toast to go with it, but that’s an extra £1.60 PER SLICE, which seems steep even by airport standards.

The quality of the food eased the shock somewhat, especially the juicy sausages and golden brown hash browns. That and the fact that the service was so quick and with a smile. It was also piping hot when it arrived and the toast lay perfectly like a blanket over the bacon and sausages, keeping them warm.

My daughter’s sausage sandwich for £7 was a little less tempting, but I don’t know what could be done to make the white bread with sausages more appealing, other than perhaps halving the price.

Our youngest, on the other hand, opted for a breakfast ciabatta for £8.75 – a toasted ciabatta with bacon, sausage and scrambled eggs.

It looked much tastier, was quite filling and he ate every last bite and washed it down with his favorite orange.

It had everything we needed to fuel up for our upcoming flight, but I can’t say the £65 bill, including drinks, wasn’t a bit of a letdown.