There is always one dish that is cooked fresh for you, in addition to a salad and cake buffet. What sets these A lounges apart from other “short-haul” lounges is their live cooking stations. (Senator is a status in the frequent flier programme of Lufthansa/Swiss) Directly integrated into the normal A lounge is also the Senator lounge, which seems very similar with just a little more space. In these cases I move to the Alpine lounge, which not everyone has discovered yet. That being said, I still find it to be packed with people to the limit more often than not.
More space with nice quiet areas, plus the Swiss interior design. I like both the normal and the Alpine lounge in terminal A, the latter now much more after the refurbishment.
