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Load Up on Pinkberry Before Your Southwest Flight
It was only a matter of time before the faux fro-yo craze that is Pinkberry would hit the airports and we were oh so privileged to see it in action last night at LAX's Terminal 1, known to locals as The Southwest Terminal (although US Airways does have some presence here.)
Wedged in between a Starbucks, a California Pizza Kitchen ASAP and a Gordon Biesch brewery, the Pinkberry seemed to hold its own. We saw many a customer in our 45-minute wait in this airport fast food haven that solely came in to get some Pinkberry.
The bonus? You can also get Pinkberry as soon as you deplane as the location is right before the escalators down to the baggage claim.
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Eva Longoria Parker Wants To Play Airport Restaurant Mogul
Oh, celebrities and their silly plans for world domination! Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria Parker is preparing for opening of the second location of her Hollywood restaurant Beso, this one in Vegas, but she's already looking to expand... to airports?!
Beso Vegas isn't supposed to open until New Year's Eve, but Parker told People that she's also looking into branching out to airports with Besitos, a limited-menu version of the flagship. First stop, naturally, is LAX, an airport that recently announced it was revamping its concession offerings.
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The French Could Care Less if Pharrell Williams Wants a Big Mac
We're not quite sure the employees at this McDonalds in a Paris airport would even care if Pharrell Williams could order a big mac in French--if they ain't open, they ain't open!
The performer/producer popped into the McDonalds wanting some food so desperately he even said he might miss his flight. (Side questions from us: What? Aren't you flying first class? Don't they serve you food in there? You really want Mickey D's that badly?)
Then he launched into a song and Jacko-inspired dance singing, "Big mac, filet o' fish, quarter pounder, french fries, icy cold milkshake, sundaes and apple pie." However, those airport employees could care less. They weren't yet open and when they did open, they would only be serving breakfast. One employee even left the McDonalds, leaving Pharrell totally disappointed that he wasn't getting no "Big mac, filet o' fish, quarter pounder, french fries, icy cold milkshake, sundaes and apple pie."
While we're sure Pharrell found some comfort in first class, we totally can identify with begging McDonalds to serve us a sausage McMuffin at 11am, even though they stopped serving breakfast at 10:30am. That truly is a universal struggle.
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Gordon Ramsay Planning New #&?$@! Restaurant
London Heathrow is banking on Gordon Ramsay to help bring a little class back to air travel. The toxic-tounged toque plans to open Plane Food, a fine dining restaurant that will be his ninth outpost in London, at the airport's new Terminal 5.
Background checks for kitchen staff are still underway, but the airport's retail director is sure things will be ready for the terminal's opening on March 27, 2008. He's particularly excited about the business travelers ready for an in-airport Michelin-star worthy experience:
I'm rather hoping they'll sit there, rich, comfortable and slightly bored and say, 'Let's go and eat out.'
Along with Ramsay's restaurant, some high end shops will round out the list of airport diversions. Paul Smith, Prada, Coach, Harrods are among the outlets where you can get rid of that extra sterling before leaving London.
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· Ramsay Aims to Land Michelin at T5 [Daily Mail]
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[Photo of T5: Daily Mail]
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Airport Dining 101
There are few skills more valuable than mastering airport dining. A post on New York magazine's Grub Street blog, did a fantastic job of breaking it down clean and simple. Pay attention, we'll review.
If you have the cash to spare, by all means travel first class, and not just for the cushy seats. With that ticket you get access to the First Class Lounge and all the delicious treats there. (Caviar bars, anyone?) Second, pick the quick dining option. Those sit-down celeb chef restaurants aren't anywhere near as good as they promise.
Next, go with what you know, as it's hard to mess up simple breakfast foods, hot dogs or corn dogs. Sure, corn dogs aren't the best thing for you, but all that deep frying will kill any lingering germs. Plus, you know you want to indulge.
Other tips are more obvious, like staying away from anything spoilable (ie. chicken salad, sushi) that looks like its hardened and been re-heated or re-anythinged. And also, follow the crowds, lines are long at certain snack spots for a reason, the food's probably good and not illness-inducing. Or do what we may do, and pack extra leftovers this Thanksgiving. Sneaking into the lounge to re-heat the mashed potatoes may be tough, but well worth it!
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· How To Master the World of Airport Dining [Grub Street]
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WiFi Wednesday: Mile High Edition Redux
Awhile back, we called out Denver International Airport for charging for Internet access. True, a bunch of business road dogs love the place--and we're beginning to like it, too--but we could never truly love a place that charges for 'net day passes.
Luckily, when we dropped in recently, we found a free WiFi hotspot. Truth be told, we went up to the Presidents Club in Concourse A to pull a Wendy Perrin. That's when we picked up a signal for a network called "MesaVerde." A quick walk downstairs revealed this to be the hotspot of a restaurant in the concourse of the same name. So there's the trick to DIA: pay for AT&T WiFi or sit outside Mesa Verde soaking up the bandwidth for free.
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