Robt760

As of August 4 2013 I can confirm:

Open:

Home Boy Cafe (but it's really still serving Broiche Dore food) Nr 41
Sammy's Woodfired Pizza Nr 43
Farmer's Market/Grab and Go (Temporary/Mobile Cart) Nr 44
Farmer's Market/Grab and Go (Temporary/Mobile Cart) Nr 45
Starbucks Nr 44
Starbucks Baggage Claim Area

Coming Soon ETA Sept 2013
Food Court aka Angelino's Market
Real Food Daily - Vegan Food
LA Gourmet Street Truck - Restaurant or Concept will Rotate Every Few Months
Campanile = California French Gourmet
Cole's = French Dipped Sandwiches


Closed
Chili's nr 42B Not coming back
Burger King nr 42B Not coming back

FYI, there are some options next door at TBIT that are pre-security if you have extra time. I can recommend Daily Grill as one of them. There's also a McDonald's and a Panda Express.

Moving Chicane

Just landed from DCA and the new food court is open. Yay?

I'm personally going to miss the Chili's and it looks like we'll all miss the amount of seating offered as the new area has less seats. Think Vegas-style brand-name food court crossed with the eating area at LAX T1.

Overall, looks disappointing. I'll go eat there now and see how it really turns out.

uscjeff

I peeked in there last week and it looks smaller than I was expecting. The "food truck" option is not open yet either

igneous

anything changed lately? going to be there tomorrow, any place stand out as having the best options in the food court?

carsnoceans

Getting to LAX in an hour. Can I connect to other terminals w/o going through security again?

Layover is only 2hrs tonite, otherwise I'd be on a Sepulvida shuttle to In N Out.

TWA884

No.

VHOEJ

This might have been asked in another thread but is there ANYTHING open food wise before security in the Tom Bradley Terminal? I know the food court on the upper level (with the McDonalds etc) is all closed, but is there anything by the way of food?

Also, is the ground level area (where there was duty free and two Newslink stores) still open?

It is a joke if there is literally nowhere to eat before security at LAX. Even teh Encounter Restaurant is gone.

PatoLoco

Nothing really pre-security that I can think of. The food in Tom Bradley is great post security. LA hot spots like ink sack, Umami, 800 Degrees and more are there so I would really suggest getting there!

Trustguy

Kogi BBQ Truck is now open in T-4. :-:

bzcat

That's pretty awesome. ^

flyertalker54234

Why are food options at LAX so terrible? T4 was always a desert for non meat eaters. EDIT Now amongst the new higher price, higher revenue outlets there is a "trendy LA" Vegan place , which I found unpleasant with the fake meat ingredients (unusual as I normally like Vegan food). Other noticeable change is closing down Starbucks. Peets coffee was not up to scratch either compared to other Peets stores or the old Starbucks. There used to be an acceptable Sushi place you could get take out at TBIT but that seems to have shut so if you want anything decent to eat you have to leave LAX. Unbelievable for a world ranking city its food options are so laughable. I guess the answer is to fly a foreign carrier out of TBIT as that looks really excellent.

Is the tunnel to T4 open yet? Can you do TSA at TBIT , get some take out and walk airside or land side to T4?

The AA terminals at ORD and JFK are so far ahead... you can even get more choice at HNL and that is saying something.

nkedel

No. You may want to subscribe to the other thread discussing it ( http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...nection-3.html ) but the tl;dr is maybe late 2015 sometime, maybe later.

I don't think you can get through TSA at TBIT without having a ticket departing TBIT, and given the security lines there you'd need a fairly long layover to do so even if you wanted to.

Having gotten used to the old T3 eating options at SFO especially during the period after 9/11 when you could not easily get to the fast food on the United concourse, LAX T4 doesn't seem all that bad to me especially with the new options opening up (however slowly.)

flyertalker54234

Thanks for the news on TBIT connector and access albeit depressing. I guess it is cab down to Wholefoods (I have 3 3/4 hours).

I only ever flew UAL out of SFO and they had good Sushi place then and the food in First Lounge was really good.

nkedel

The food in the United terminal improved tremendously with the remodel probably about 8-9 years ago -- it was nice, if a bit of a walk, for the couple of years before AA moved to T2 but after they had both moved security ahead to one shared zone and done the remodel (before that, the highlights were a bagel place and a Pizza Hut Express... bleh, although the AA T3 options back then were even more limited; the Klein's Deli and Subway that moved in on that side of the model were ISTR a step up.)

I spent the second half of the 1990s basically shuttling back to the Bay Area and college in New England every 4-6 weeks to see my then-girlfriend/now-wife, so I got really sick of the fast food at SFO and BOS back then.

TWA884

The Kogi truck has just been replaced by a Border Grill truck. I saw them rebranding the truck as I passed through T4 very early Thursday morning last week.