Travel Health and Fitness - Airports w/ healthy or decent eating options

Since we all travel through airports & sometimes have layovers (or get there because we left hotel before exec lounge or restaurant opened, or will get to hotel too late for both), I thought it would be a good idea for us to start a list of airports that have healthy or decent eating options.

Something along the lines of (name of airport), (name of eating facility), location in airport (Terminal # or Concourse # or Gate #). This would include both domestic & international airports.

Cheers.

Found this in an article:

Pick the right port
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport tied for the top ranking in a survey on healthy meals at the nation's 15 busiest airports done by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. According to the survey, you can find at least one healthy meal (one low in fat and cholesterol and high in fiber) at 95% of these airports' restaurants. Others topping the list were O'Hare (Chicago), George Bush Intercontinental (Houston), Sky Harbor International (Phoenix), and Los Angeles Internation

Of course it doesn't say where in the airport.

Saw this on an airline pilot site:

"My favorite place to eat by far is French Meadow Bakery at MSP. They hae a great menu full of organic food as well as an attached bakery with tons of healthy snacks."

"Paradise Bakery (in PHX and one other airport which I can't recall) has good food and lots of salad options."

Cheers.

(full disclosure, this company was at one point a client of my company)
I love the CIBO Express grab-and-go markets at various airports across the country. They have hummus and pita chips, sandwiches with greens instead of iceberg lettuce, veggie plates.

CIBO Express is owned by OTG. OTG's airport restaurants also seem to be healthier. They have asian fusion restaurants in PHL, TUS, LGA and some other places.

CIBO Express has locations between B and F in ORD, MCO, LGA, JFK, TUS, many other places.

CIBO Express also sells gourmet chips and chocolates. I'm not including those with the healthy items.
http://ciboexpressgourmetmarket.com/

RDU has a Camden Foods location. They have premade sandwiches and salads that come without condiments, so you can pretty much pick off what you don't want. They also have cut veggies and hummus which isn't bad. A good selection of dried fruits and healthier drinks (Vitamin Water 0, Naked Juices, etc.)

Plus one for cibo express - they are awesome

DTW- Online Cafe - Terminal A - their special last week was a chicken kabob that was actually REALLY tasty and healthy.

I also love Cibo Express!

In DFW, I like Urban Taco (either terminal A or C, I can't remember) as they have great grilled meat tacos on soft corn tortillas with fresh veggies/salsas.

At ORD, the new Wicker Park sushi/raw bar that opened on the Terminal 2 connector is great. I walked over there today for a bite. Food isn't the best sushi I've ever had but for fresh seafood and salads, it beats a lot of other ORD options. Seaweed salad that a neighboring table was huge and looked good - next time I'm getting that and a few pieces of sashimi!

I saw that sushi bar at ORD when I was connecting over to T2 a couple of weeks ago. I'm allergic to seafood, but I thought what a great idea. It looked pretty busy.

Cheers.

BOS - UFood Grill (http://www.ufoodgrill.com/) - the AA side of Terminal B (food court)

I find them to be a good option for breakfast/lunch/dinner. Burritos/wraps with whole-grain wraps, brown rice, steamed vegetables, baked french fries, lots of veggie options, smoothies, etc.

Boars Head stand in the JFK Jet Blue Terminal. I usually get a sliced chicken on whole wheat sandwhich and a yogurt from Cibo express for the flight.

STL has Mosaic were you can get egg white frittatas, fruit, yogurt, etc... Great salads at lunch.

Since we all travel through airports & sometimes have layovers (or get there because we left hotel before exec lounge or restaurant opened, or will get to hotel too late for both), I thought it would be a good idea for us to start a list of airports that have healthy or decent eating options.

Something along the lines of (name of airport), (name of eating facility), location in airport (Terminal # or Concourse # or Gate #). This would include both domestic & international airports.

Cheers.


Just as a heads-up, we just launched food delivery to the gate with Balducci's at JFK T3, and we included a bunch of healthy salad options as part of the service.

The app and the service is free:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/b4-you-board/id433951842?mt=8

Let me know what you think, what you'd like to see tweaked, etc.

Thanks,
-Hans

Just as a heads-up, we just launched food delivery to the gate with Balducci's at JFK T3, and we included a bunch of healthy salad options as part of the service.

The app and the service is free:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/b4-you-board/id433951842?mt=8

Let me know what you think, what you'd like to see tweaked, etc.

Thanks,
-Hans

That sounds pretty cool! Thanks for the heads up.

Cheers.

Ciba Express is at DCA, too, at the area that US uses.

I like It's a Wrap / It's a Bowl in Terminal B at DEN. They have some salads and bowl options with brown rice and lots of veggies.

Across from the Wicker Express @ ORD Term 2 connector is a Ciba Express.

Cheers.

By far the three best U.S. airport sandwich options are:

(3) BOS, Legal Seafoods, four locations in terminals A, B, and C. I get pretty stoked for their lobster roll, which fetches about $12.
(2) SFO, Boudin's Bakery & Cafe, Terminal 3, Boarding Area F, food court at entrance to Gates 80-90. They make an unbelievable turkey-cranberry sandwich, which you would be wise to order on Boudin's own sourdough bread.
(1) MIA, La Carreta, North Terminal (full restaurant at D37; snacks and cortados at D21). Juicy, sumptuous Cuban sandwiches, well made. Need I say more?

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I'm sure most foodies would agree that SFO is hands-down the best U.S. airport for real food. There are just far too many good eateries there to list them all, but here's an alphabetical listing of all SFO eateries (http://www.flysfo.com/web/page/atsfo/shop-dine/dine/alph.html).

Any suggestions for places to eat in the JFK Delta terminal?
I'll be flying to San Diego around dinner time and want to make sure I eat something before that long flight.
Thanks!

Any suggestions for places to eat in the JFK Delta terminal?
I'll be flying to San Diego around dinner time and want to make sure I eat something before that long flight.
Thanks!

As mentioned in post # 13 (4 above yours):

"Just as a heads-up, we just launched food delivery to the gate with Balducci's at JFK T3, and we included a bunch of healthy salad options as part of the service.

The app and the service is free:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/b4-yo...433951842?mt=8

Let me know what you think, what you'd like to see tweaked, etc.

Thanks,
-Hans "

That sounds pretty cool! Thanks for the heads up.

Cheers.

Following up on the healthy food options, we start free delivery of French Meadow (along with Chili's and Rock Bottom) to the gate tomorrow (9/14/11) at MSP.

Here's the link: http://bitly.com/iMboTb

I travel through PHL pretty frequently, and my choices there tend to be either CIBO express or Au Bon Pain. If I have time, I usually favor ABP since they will make salads and wraps, etc. to order. At CIBO, it's all pre-packaged.

DEN has Wolfgang Pizza, I get salmon pizza every time I fly through.

They also have sundwishes and salads.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/wolfgang-puck-express-denver




NRT has a sushi bar by the gate 31

http://hakuba.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/sushi-at-narita-airport/