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In Sunday’s New York Times, Matt Gross checks out restaurants at (or near) seven airports to see what’s worth eating. Some of the best spots, he discovers, are outside the terminal. The Atlanta airport’s taxi assembly cafeteria, for example, serves great African food; at LAX you can hop on a parking shuttle to In-N-Out Burger, the uberpopular fast food chain with a cultlike following. Gross is impressed with the fare at the Dallas/Forth Worth airport and the restaurants in the new JetBlue terminal at JFK, not so much with the offerings at LaGuardia.
Listed on his roundup of places to eat are the Billy Goat Tavern, BJ’s Market & Bakery, and Goose Island Pub, which he presumably deems the best of the worst; commenters offer equally lukewarm recommendations of La Tapenade Mediterranean Cafe, the Berghoff Cafe, Cibo Express Gourmet, and Wolfgang Puck Cafe.
