Finally MDW Food Upgrade!
Aug 27, 2018, 2:20 pm
#91
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All the restaurants are now serviced (and mostly staffed) by the same company. Which explains the identical items and universally poor customer service.
Aug 27, 2018, 8:58 pm
#92
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New restaurants at the A terminal connector included Arami sushi, Reilly's Daughter, Nuts on Clark, Woodgrain pizza, and a walk up Bill Goat Tavern.
Nov 4, 2018, 7:31 pm
#93
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Been through MDW a couple times now since the food upgrades, and I have to say it's night and day to the food desert that MDW used to be. I've been particularly impressed with Arami in terminal A. Great salmon rice bowl, excellent sushi. Agree that service is slow overall though.
Sep 10, 2020, 8:26 pm
#95
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: TOL
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You can see the status of Midway food establishments here: https://www.flychicago.com/midway/ma...s/default.aspx
Apr 25, 2023, 1:29 pm
#97
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I don't fly Southwest much, so I will have the privilege (?) of changing planes at MDW for the first time next Tuesday. I plan on eating lunch there. Is the food still as awful as this thread makes it sound? What is the least bad option? My flight comes in 10:40 am and my connecting flight leaves at 1:05 pm, so I am thinking takeaway, not sit-down. I don't know yet whether the gates will be in A Concourse or B or both.
Apr 25, 2023, 2:45 pm
#99
Join Date: Oct 2016
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I don't fly Southwest much, so I will have the privilege (?) of changing planes at MDW for the first time next Tuesday. I plan on eating lunch there. Is the food still as awful as this thread makes it sound? What is the least bad option? My flight comes in 10:40 am and my connecting flight leaves at 1:05 pm, so I am thinking takeaway, not sit-down. I don't know yet whether the gates will be in A Concourse or B or both.
Depends what kind of food you like. I think Billy Goat in A makes a pretty good burger. If you want pizza I'd go for Woodgrain instead of Homerun Inn because the latter, at least at the takeaway location, has premade pizzas.
Apr 25, 2023, 4:28 pm
#100
Join Date: Oct 2001
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IF Harry Caray's is still around (I haven't been to MDW since 2015), they make a decent burger too, have a other options too, when I used to go solo it was cramped but got you in and out fairly quickly, especially at the bar, IF the wait line was minimal. Lots of ifs..
Apr 25, 2023, 5:00 pm
#101
Join Date: Oct 2002
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If you have the time, the best options for dining in the area are found outside the airport. Giordano's and Lou Malnati's pizza locations are both fairly close if you have several hours to kill.
The food establishments in the terminal are a tribute to Chicago politics and not the city's culinary scene.
The food establishments in the terminal are a tribute to Chicago politics and not the city's culinary scene.
Apr 26, 2023, 9:36 am
#102
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You'd have plenty of time in a two hour window if you felt like sitting down instead of taking away - the airport is easy to transit through. That being said, my go-to is Billy Goat Tavern in A since it's fast and decently priced. Woodgrain Pizza right next door is also fairly good.
Apr 27, 2023, 9:10 am
#104
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: ORD, MDW or MKE
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IF Harry Caray's is still around (I haven't been to MDW since 2015), they make a decent burger too, have a other options too, when I used to go solo it was cramped but got you in and out fairly quickly, especially at the bar, IF the wait line was minimal. Lots of ifs..
Apr 28, 2023, 8:43 am
#105
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Peoria
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I have a flight in five days so I will try to remember to look. Assuming of course my gate isn't B-26 or some such far away place LOL! They really need to put my name on that one since I seem to get it more often than not.