Thread: Best Airport Restaurants

stay away from the pub at DTW--ick ick ick and $$$
when we were there a few wks ago the employees were arguing about the mgmnt and other employees right in front of us--the entire time!

In n out = awesome! Great burgers, cute girls and great airplanes!

AUS - salt lick

Nothing too out of the ordinary, but two places stick out for when I'm at MSP: Wok n' Roll and the pizza place by the Northstar Crossing, where all the shops are. The former has awesome udon soup, while the latter has really good stromboli (especially the breakfast stromboli at, um, breakfast).

At MDW (and I think ORD) there's also Manny's. I brought a friend out there when I worked for NW so she could fly at the companion rate, and had an hour before I turned around. She instantly recommended the place as soon as we saw it outside the gate, and it really did hit the spot. Good comfort food there.

Originally Posted by 29palms

Houston has some good food at the airport. FAMIGLIA PIZZA, PANDA EXPRESS, and like the poster above, PAPPADEAUX buffet is great. New Orleans style gumbo, catfish, shrimp, rice. They got Wendy's, Charlies steak and cheese sandwiches, barbecue, Pappasitos Mexican grill. I couldn't believe Cleveland Burger King had a line of people, because there was nothing else besides sports bars in the terminal I was in. I like EWR the SBARRO's pizza, along with lasagna, garlic bread, stromboli's, salad. I had a good sanwich at MSP airport, forgot the name of the place, had some excellent bagles and bread to go. Einstein bagles in DCA. I had McDonalds at NRT. Guam had Burger King and Japanese soups and noodles restaurant there. Sometimes the food gets expensive but when your hungry, anything taste good I suppose. The best thing by far I like to do in airports is to sit down and chug down one or two pints of ale or beer watching sports on television. Every town has their own microbrew and I like to try their versions, or can't go wrong with Samuel Adams Boston Lager or something bitter. In Canada, its all about the ale for me. The bigger the glass, the better. I like to chug down the first one and then go light on the next one.

That sandwich place... does Dunn Bros sound familiar? About halfway up the C concourse? That's kind of a local place spread around the suburbs I think, and they have a location at the airport.

Oh, and Pizza Famiglia is the place I was thinking of, actually...

I really don't know that place at MSP. It was like a place you walk into and it has these pasteries or bagles or bread in glass shelfing you can view through and then you get in this line that winds up to the register but you order a sandwich to the lady taking orders and when you pay up, you have this FLY SWATTER looking number you put on your table and then they come up and serve your sandwich. The view of the terminal from there is great.

Ok, after some research, and believe me, I got lucky. Great River Market and Deli. I found the place I went to. I love the joint. Great selection and relaxing, classy joint. Check out this link...
Great River Market and Deli

wait wait wait... first off, I think that place is relatively new... I'll admit I'm not as familiar with the restaurants in the G concourse (there aren't many) but I'm almost positive that you're thinking of French Meadow. That place is pretty well-known, but a little expensive. It's also at the beginning of the E concourse, which is where all the non-NW flights in the Lindbergh terminal come from. If you were on CO, you probably walked right by the place. If not, it's quite out of the way (though I won't dismiss the idea of wandering around while waiting).