Good and Bad Airport Food?

Michael Z said:
Got a $11 Cheeseburger at Burger 21 at the Tampa Florida Airport yesterday. It was very good!
Most other airport food purchases I have made have been a disappointment in both price and quality.
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It’s not always the airport, but mostly the restaurant chain. I travel to Florida and go through Tampa to get to my home several times a year.
They had a Shula’s Burger Bar at TPA for a number of years, but I guess since Don Shula has been dead for years, his namesake has been changed.

As a pilot that has flown to many different large cities, I liked Boston to get Lobster or Clam Chowder inside the airport. I don’t have the name of the restaurant. It was called “Something (?) Sea Foods.”

I also liked the restaurant inside Denver International called “Timberline Steaks.” Really good food, but a little pricey.
 
We frequently fly out of DFW and I find the restaurants in the International Terminal D to be pretty varied and decent. I've traveled all over the world and I can't think of an airport that serves anything particularly good. I do remember that Charlotte and Atlanta were pretty pathetic and only offered unhealthy food. That may have changed.

Never mind the airlines, even on international flights. The food is marginal at best. The best may have been Qatar Airways and Singapore Airlines.
 
We always ate at a seafood restaurant in Seattle. It’s been a few years so I forget the name. They also had reasonable shopping there for travel clothing and accessories.
 
Whenever we went to visit my father in Florida, as soon as we disembarked in Orlando we'd make a beeline for Chick Fil A, which we all love. We'd gotten used to them in Virginia, and then when we moved to Nevada and then North Dakota. . . nothing. The chain hadn't made its way that far west yet.

We finally got a one here, after a looong time!
 
KSav said:
Whenever we went to visit my father in Florida, as soon as we disembarked in Orlando we'd make a beeline for Chick Fil A, which we all love. We'd gotten used to them in Virginia, and then when we moved to Nevada and then North Dakota. . . nothing. The chain hadn't made its way that far west yet.

We finally got a one here, after a looong time!
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I think there are Chicfillas all over Ohio. I've never been to one. I see commercials and there must be one somewhere but I haven't seen it.
 
Chick Fil A is a license to print their own money, at least here in my area. The two that are nearest to me have looong lines in the drive-thrus to the point that they've had to set up an operation for employees to come out and take orders and then deliver then to the cars. In fact, one strip mall was going to far as to threaten to sue Chick Fil A because it was almost impossible to get into the mall parking area during rush hours. Lines of cars were blocking entry.

I do like Chick Fil A but seldom go there for that reason.
 
Ruthanne said:
I think there are Chicfillas all over Ohio. I've never been to one. I see commercials and there must be one somewhere but I haven't seen it.
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I really love their food, and one thing I particularly like is that you put on your own condiments. I love grilled chicken sandwiches, but I detest mayonnaise, and pretty much every time I ordered one at, say, McDonald's, and requested "No mayo" it would be handed over dripping in the stuff.
 
I told this story a few years ago, but I think it’s pretty cool. I had landed at LAX from Washington, D.C. Dulles International Airport (IAD) on a Thursday afternoon. After all the passengers and flight crew had exited the plane, I was the last one off. As I and the first officer was walking through the airport, a light brown woman walked in front of me and pointed at the wings on my coat and asked if they were real. I asked her what did she mean. She asked if they were real gold. I told her no, they were just slightly gold plated.

She asked if I was going to have dinner and I told her no, but if she wanted to have coffee together, I would do that. I was married, she was very pretty and I wasn’t looking for a hook-up, but she interested me because I knew I had seen her on TV, but where, I didn’t remember. There was a coffee and donut shop right where we were standing, so I suggested we sit down in there. She agreed. The name of the place was “The Donut Hole.” After we sat down, she said her name was Estelle Bennett. It still didn’t ring a bell.

She said she sang with the Ronettes. That clicked in my mind. She told me the Ronettes were heading to NYC to be on the David Letterman Show. She was very pretty, very nice and I could tell that she was very kind. We talked mostly about their record tour and where they had been and where the group would be singing soon. We sat and talked for about a half hour and then I went to the hotel. It’s a story that I never forgot.
 
Pinky said:
Cathay Pacific was the best airline food I've had. Airport food, always on the pricey side .. I can't say I recall having anything outstanding.
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I think the best airline food I've had in 50 years was on Turkish Airlines. I mean IT WAS GOOD. And we were back in Sardine Class, not up with the big spenders. They had a guy in a chef's coat and hat wandering the aisles, answering questions about the food.

I flew to Europe in 1967 on what was then Loftleidir (now Icelandic). They served the food out of big bowls and chafing dishes and there was a LOT of it. It was served on china plates with REAL utensils, no sporks. It seemed like they were pushing food at us constantly.

Now, on domestic flights you're lucky if you get a tiny packet of pretzels and half a cola, unless you're willing to fork over your charge card for a pre-packaged snack pack.
 
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