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New indoor food truck at LAX

11/03/15

As promised, the rotating food truck concept in Terminal 4 at Los Angeles International Airport has rotated. Operated by HMSHost, the L.A. Gourmet Street Truck inside the terminal looks like a food truck and was designed to house a parade of popular L.A. street vendor offerings. Chef Roy Choi’s Kogi BBQ was the first to […]

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Custard vending machine at STL Airport

07/08/15

Just in time for summer, vending machines dispensing a frozen custard famous in St. Louis have been installed on the concourses at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The machines are filled with custard cups known as concretes – malts or shakes so thick they can be served upside down – from Ted Drewes, a popular family-owned […]

The arrival: airports that do it right

05/09/15

[This is a slightly altered version of my “At the Airport” column published in USA TODAY in May 2015] Sometimes, the best part of going away is coming home. Or feeling at home in a new place. And for many travelers, that sensation begins at the airport. Sound designer Peter Comley relishes his return visits […]

Iron Chef-style cook-off at O’Hare Airport

03/30/15

If you’re traveling through Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Tuesday, March 31, head over to Terminal 2 (across from Wicker Park Seafood & Sushi) at 11 a.m. for the live, Iron Chef-style cooking competition. Organized by HMSHost, which operates food and beverage outlets at many airports (and along highways), the cook-off will feature the winners of […]

YO! Sushi at Copenhagen Airport

03/01/15

What’s better than really fresh and really tasty sushi at the airport? Sushi that comes to you on a conveyor belt. YO! Sushi, the ‘running’ sushi restaurant that started in London and now has 74 restaurants worldwide, just opened a branch at Copenhagen Airport. There, the sushi moves along a 230-foot-long conveyor belt at just […]

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Airport food: think you can do better?

02/10/15

Think you can do better than the people who cook the food served up at airport? O’Hare International Airport is inviting you to strut your culinary stuff in a cooking contest called Channel Your Inner Chef. Open to both travelers and employees of the airport (who eat on-site far more often than any of us […]

Restaurant Week at O’Hare & Midway Int’l Airports

01/30/15

Here’s hoping you have a good long layover at O’Hare or Midway International Airports coming up – and that you’re hungry when you land. Both airports are participating in Chicago Restaurant Week with a special Airport Restaurant Week event running from January 30 – February 12, 2015. 50 restaurant at O’Hare and 20 at Midway […]

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Heathrow offering Boarding Bon Bons

12/23/14

On Christmas Day, more than 100, 000 travelers are expected to pass through London’s Heathrow Airport and during lunch time an estimated 16,000 of those travelers will be in the air, unable to sit down to a traditional Christmas meal. Too bad? Not at all, says Heathrow Airport. They have an – unusual – answer: […]

Park Pod at Heathrow Airport

09/20/14

To remind travelers that every restaurant at Heathrow Airport will pack up a to-go meal for you, the airport has set up what it is calling a “sensory park pod” in the still-new Terminal 2. As you can see from the photo above, the “pod” contains elements of what you might find in a a […]

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Snack Saturday: JFK’s new Central Diner

07/19/14

Snack Saturday: JFK's new Central Diner

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