These days airports are usually busy because of the availability of cheap airplane tickets and cheap vacation packages. Airports reputation for food in the past has been that it tends to be expensive and less than appetizing.
Recently this has started to change. Over the last few years famous chefs have started opening restaurants at select airports.
New Yorks LaGuardia has opened some fancier eating restaurants similar to those at Jet Blues terminal at New Yorks JFK airport where diners can enjoy mushroom and pepper salads with fried rosemary at AeroNuova while vintage Italian movies screen overhead. Chef Gordon Ramsay has opened Plane Food at Londons Heathrow airport that offers whiskey pannacotta.
At Beijing Airports Langham Place delicacies are available from a variety of restaurants. Geneva Airports Altitude restaurant employs two chefs who have received Michelin stars for their city based operations. Top Air restaurant at Stuttgart Airport has actually earned a Michelin starred ranking.
Shannon Bennett of Melbournes highly rated Vue de Monde has opened a whimsical Caf Vue at Melbournes airport where diners can enjoy a glass of sparkling and a compact lunchbox which holds four small courses. Chef Raymond Capaldi has created a menu of Plonk, a wine bar that tries to create some of Melbournes famous laneway culture.
Los Angeles International Airport is enjoying many new eateries which have opened in its freshly renovated facility. One of its most acclaimed new restaurants is called Encounter which serves bright fresh salads, free range chicken dishes, and cocktails to diners as they watch planes arrive. www.cheapfares.com