The most expensive (and crappiest) coffee/food you've encountered at airports
May 25, 2018, 9:17 am
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But agree that EWR is expensive.
May 25, 2018, 7:21 pm
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May 30, 2018, 7:47 am
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Ugh I had a horribly disappointing muffin from The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf last week in ATL. It cost $6 and it was so bad I went across to Bojangles and got a breakfast biscuit for $2
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May 30, 2018, 7:52 am
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Tell that to the mountains of weird egg salad they were offering in the The Club at ATL. I was happy with the jellybeans and the fruit infused water until they cleared it all away.
May 30, 2018, 8:37 am
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May 30, 2018, 8:46 am
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I flew out of LAX last Friday. Flying United, I was in Terminal 7. I walked by the Rolling Stone place and walked through the food court. It had Loteria, BLD, a Coffee Bean and a place called The Counter, which had the longest line. Every place had an entree for $15. Burrito? $15. Hamburger? $15. Some other sandwich? $15. So I decided I might as well sit and have a beer with my $15 meal, and went back to Rolling Stone. The bartender ignored me for the better part of 5 minutes. Once I finally had service, she asked me how I wanted my burger cooked. I told her medium well (my brother-in-law was once the largest beef tongue buyer in the country, and told me that medium well for burgers is safest if you're at all concerned with e.coli; it's a long story that involves the Burger King recall of 1997). My not-quite medium well burger arrived and tasted like Sysco sadness, reheated in a microwave or something. Maybe the bartender stuck the sandwich in her armpit to warm it up. It wasn't good.
May 30, 2018, 1:45 pm
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LOL. When we got there it was the option of some questionable looking sandwiches, MOUNTAINS of egg salad, hummus, pita, brownies, cookies, chips, fruit water, jelly beans, and clam chowder. Its like who ever planned the menu was stoned out of their mind.
May 30, 2018, 1:59 pm
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Food at most US airports is a ripoff and completely gross. Recently in IAH I has make-believe Pho which cost $20 and had no flavour at all. Then, in RSW I had a pre-wrapped ham-cheese sandwich from the only place in C concourse that was disgusting and cost $12.99. The bread was some weird texture that crumbled the minute you touched it, and the whole thing was so dense it was awful.
May 30, 2018, 4:01 pm
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May 30, 2018, 5:10 pm
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May 31, 2018, 12:20 am
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May 31, 2018, 8:24 am
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Just had an early morning flight out of SFO (United terminal) - went to my usual standby breakfast sandwich place to find it had been redeveloped into some new "restaurant" offerings - egg sandwich was $18!!!!
"but it comes with potatoes" was the response.
I went to Burger King at the other end of the terminal - at least their crappy egg sandwich is only $5
I found that prices for food at SFO are outrageous even by US airport standards.
"but it comes with potatoes" was the response.
I went to Burger King at the other end of the terminal - at least their crappy egg sandwich is only $5
I found that prices for food at SFO are outrageous even by US airport standards.
May 31, 2018, 8:31 am
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Around 7 or 8 years ago I had a flight out of BUR (it was my first, and thus far only, time flying out of that airport so I didn't know what it had available). The only thing I could find was a small shop / bar, where I bought a terrible caesar salad for $15.
Jun 4, 2018, 10:19 am
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Originally Posted by :D!
You could have gone to one of the supermarkets and got a pastry and juice (can't remember if they have coffee machines) for less than 5 francs. Perhaps the café ones are better, but not seven times better.
Jun 5, 2018, 4:02 pm
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Last week at STT a 20 ounce Diet Coke cost me $4.50 and a Johnny Cake with ham and egg cost another $4.75. They also refused to take a credit card. This was the sole place open in the terminal.