If you feel like it’s too early to have Airport Restaurant Month again, you’re right. The first one was barely six months ago in October 2014, but that’s not stopping HMSHost from rolling out Airport Restaurant Month 2105 in May. Just like last time, airport restaurants all over the country are offering multi-course chef’s tasting menus for a fixed price. While it would certainly be more fun to see each restaurant create their own menu, HMSHost has settled on one fixed menu for all of it’s locations. You get your choice of one of three entrees (salmon, chicken, skirt steak) along with a wedge salad, roasted asparagus, whipped hummus, and a rotating “chefs potato” special. Check out the menu from LAX’s Campanile location:

The prices for the entrees vary by location, but they’re all pretty much in the $20-$30 range.

The promotion was so successful in October that the number of airports involved in Airport Restaurant Week has grown to more than 50 with almost 100 restaurants included. Here’s a list of participating restaurants:

Anchorage International Airport
Baltimore-Washington International Airport
Boston Logan International Airport
Calgary International Airport
Charlotte Douglas International Airport
Chicago O’Hare International Airport
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport
Clinton National Airport (Little Rock)
Dallas Love Field
Edmonton International Airport
El Paso International Airport
Fresno Yosemite International Airport
General Mitchell International Airport (Milwaukee)
George Bush Intercontinental Airport (Houston)
Halifax Stanfield International Airport
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Honolulu International Airport
Jackson-Evers International Airport
Jacksonville International Airport
John F. Kennedy International Airport
Kansas City International Airport
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport
Long Island MacArthur Airport (Islip)
Los Angeles International Airport
Louisville International Airport
Manchester-Boston Regional Airport
McCarran International Airport (Las Vegas)
Memphis International Airport
Miami International Airport
Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport
MontreÌal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
Nashville International Airport
Norfolk International Airport
Oakland International Airport
Orlando International Airport
Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport
Palm Beach International Airport
Palm Springs International Airport
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Portland International Jetport (Maine)
Raleigh–Durham International Airport
Salt Lake City International Airport
San Jose International Airport
Sarasota–Bradenton International Airport
Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport
Southwest Florida International Airport (Ft Myers)
T. F. Green Airport (Providence)
Tampa International Airport
Toronto Pearson International Airport
Tulsa International Airport
Washington Dulles International Airport

I like the idea of Airport Restaurant Month a lot. It encourages people to spend more time in the terminal and treat their trip like more of an event, rather than just a way to get from place to the other. In the future, I hope HMSHost lets their individual restaurant brands have a little more freedom and offer tasting menus created from their own kitchens. It would be fun to fly from Dulles to LAX and get to try a different menu when you depart and when you arrive. Hopefully that’s what the future holds.

For more details, click on over to airportrestaurantmonth.com