Comments on: Good food? At airports?

Good food? At airports?

expialidocious — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:39:44 -0800

Traveling soon? Check out your airport's food for health or taste. A move away from single concessionaires has brought star chefs and big money to some locations and frustrated locals (Sea-Tac, halfway through article) in others. But the overall airport-food picture is still weak enough to inspire six pages of Rooneyesque diatribe. [more inside]

By: expialidocious

expialidocious — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:39:57 -0800

Of course if airplane food (discussed twice) were reliably edible there'd be less pressure on airport food. But inflight dining has evolved (devolved?) from "the universally recognized sign of hack stand up comedy" to blog-filler.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:55:30 -0800

Just wait a few years - once airplane food is completely gone from domestic flights, then hopefully the associated jokes will stop as well. First class airline fare is usually not bad, especially they cook with less equipment than the typical college dorm resident.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:56:42 -0800

At one, I pointed to a picture of something that looked a lot like chicken and said, "Chicken." I guess it wasn't chicken, because I ended up with a bowl of rice topped with tasty pork strips, a fried egg, and what I believe were sautéed onions. Ah. At first I thought this guy was just another jaded food critic, but now I realize he's an insulated moron, pretending to be an educated world traveler, who doesn't even know katsudon when it jumps out of Narita Airport and beats him about the face. STFU, Mr. Richman.

By: basilwhite

basilwhite — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:08:30 -0800

http://www.jimneelysinterstatebarbecue.com/ is the best on the planet, and it's at Memphis International Airport.

By: SirOmega

SirOmega — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:51 -0800

Yea, its pretty much accepted that nowadays you should eat before your flight (continential US only of course). Maybe bring a snack or two if you have a BOS-LAX/SAN or SEA-MIA or some other long 5+ hr flight. You aren't going to get much in flight, if at all. A bag of Soy Peanuts. Whoopie... Likewise, my local airport (LAS) has lots of places to choose to eat - even at 10PM the quiznos and burger kings are still open (a few of them at least, one per concourse at least). However, never drink water on a flight unless it comes from a bottle. You dont want to know what kind of icky stuff is inside a water tank on a jetliner (they are cleaned out periodically but not as much as I would like).

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:28:51 -0800

basilwhite: just jumped in to say the exact same thing! I might just arrange for a layover on purpose next time.

By: expialidocious

expialidocious — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:31:32 -0800

Faint of Butt: but now I realize he's an insulated moron, pretending to be an educated world traveler, who doesn't even know katsudon when it jumps out of Narita Airport and beats him about the face Not only that, he's apparently never seen a Black Bottom Cupcake before ("an odd cheesecake-filled chocolate muffin from the Euro Café in Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport"). To miss on both of those... that's a pretty broad spectrum of ignorance right there.

By: Joeforking

Joeforking — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:10:49 -0800

What'd you expect of Wayne Rooney?

By: Opposite George

Opposite George — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:45:10 -0800

Nice to see HPN's Skytop Restaurant get a mention, even if Richman overstates the airport's "grandiosity" for the sake of an easy shot. The absence of no-frills lunch counters in most airports is a personal peeve, and many's the time I've enjoyed a cheeseburger deluxe at the Skytop before embarking for larger, more commercialized destinations.

By: gimonca

gimonca — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:15:40 -0800

Little over a decade ago, I had a stupendously good bowl of crawfish etouffee in the tiny cafe in the almost as tiny airport at Lake Charles, LA. No future airport food will ever compare.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:12:12 -0800

Not only that, he's apparently never seen a Black Bottom Cupcake before Heh. You're absolutely right. I didn't even realize what he was talking about based on his description there.