A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Minneapolis: DL DM charter 2.3MM
Programs: A3*Gold, SPG Plat, HyattDiamond, MarriottPP, LHW exAccess, ICI, Raffles Amb, NW PE MM, TWA Gold MM
Posts: 100,417
IIRC Ike's is leaving MSP airport permanently and something else is getting their space. [You might try to search for a thread on merchant F&B changes at MSP in the DL forum. Surdyk's is gone too.]
If you're not looking for a hot breakfast, I'd aim for Caribou (local version of Peet's or Starbucks) or French Meadow (in the main concourse but more in the center than where Ike's was) if they're still at MSP for good pastry. A more ambitious idea would be to head for the restaurant in the new IC hotel in T1, which IIRC still has a TSA checkpoint to get back into the terminal open until about 10 am (but be sure to check since otherwise you'd be at the mercy of their airport shuttle bus and the regular checkpoints, which could be OK if you have CLEAR and PreCheck).
ADDED: Today it was announced that the TSA checkpoint at the IC hotel is now closed. Now one must allow lots and lots of time between the hotel and T1 (or T2) as the hotel's shuttle bus or other vehicle is required. AFAIK one cannot walk from the hotel to the terminal or to the light rail station.
Last edited by MSPeconomist; Nov 18, 2019 at 5:23 pm