Back in the ’60s, Air France used to advertise a seven course meal that took place over the course of 1600 miles. It involved the type of elaborate French cuisine that people of the time associated with French food: foie gras, cheeses, entire birds with feathers and all. The image is a little grainy, but…
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A Food Truck INSIDE an Airport with Kogi at LAX
Back in late 2008, a former hotel chef named Roy Choi launched a taco truck that put a spin on traditional Mexican fillings with Korean flavors. Over five years later, the gourmet food truck craze has both exploded and subsided (at least in Los Angeles where it all began) and now, with the opening of…
Westfield Unveils Disappointing Plan for Terminal 6 at LAX
LAX is undergoing a massive transformation and I’m really happy about all most of the changes. The Tom Bradley International Terminal is an oasis in international travel, American’s Terminal 4 has really improved the pre-flight dining experience, and other terminals have gotten major facelifts as well. That’s why it’s so disappointing to hear what the…
First Class Review: JetBlue Mint JFK-LAX
I imagine the marketing team that came up with “Mint” as the name of JetBlue’s new premium cabin has been patting themselves on the back for months. It’s the perfect evocative brand name; a four-letter word without scorn. Mint is fresh. Mint is financially sound. Mint is crisp and cool and exactly what you want…
LAX T2 Begins Transformation Process
Terminal 2 at LAX is kind of like that awkward cousin that lives down the street. While you and your friends United, American, and Delta play together, T2 is off in the corner drawing weird pictures of combination bear-dolphins. Every other terminal at LAX has a major carrier anchoring it, but Terminal 2 is a…
Alaska Airlines Hires Pancake-Making Robot + $10 off Day Pass
Who doesn’t love pancakes? Okay, you can put your hands down, Celiac sufferers. Everybody else, get ready for a pancake miracle. Alaska Airlines has upped the airport lounge breakfast game with “Popcake” machines that churn out pancakes faster than Sunday morning dads ever could. They’re essentially pancake robots that issue their circular products from an…
The $18 Airport Salad
How much should a salad cost? $5? $10? $100? “Should” is a dangerous game to play. Free-market economists would tell you that salads should cost as much as the market is willing to pay. At Terminal 4 in LAX, Campanile is charging $18 for a salad (plus tax) and the market seems prepared to pay…
Here. Have a cookie.
Just left the Admirals Club at LAX. Right before I left, they put out a huge stack of cookies. Nothing makes up for a two hour delay like some chocolate chip cookies, right? No matter what, I thought you might need a cookie right now — in digital form, at least.
Lounge Report: Brand New oneworld International Business Lounge at LAX
In perhaps the greatest new development of the already great Tom Bradley International Terminal makeover at LAX, oneworld (in this case Qantas, Cathay Pacific, and British Airways) has opened their brand new business class lounge at LAX and it’s a stunner. The space itself is great, but the food… ah, the food. Last time we…
Eat at Rock & Brews LAX, Meet KISS
They’re not here everyday like some sort of Glam Rock Ronald McDonald, but this morning at the Rock & Brews outpost in LAX T5, breakfast diners were treated to a side of star power with their eggs when co-owners Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS showed up (separately) before a flight to grab some…
Eater’s 2014 Airport Dining Guides
In the Fly&Dine universe, we tend to celebrate different holidays than normal folks. Airline mergers, new menu debuts, and the release of the now-annual Eater Airport Dining Guides are all big days for us. As such, yesterday was essentially Christmas as Eater unleashed their latest series of Airport Dining Guides. The difference between Eater and…
Fly&Dine Flight Food Review: American Airlines First Class KOA to LAX
First of all, let’s be honest. First Class on an older AA 757 is a joke. With the exception of the extra elbow and leg room, there’s not much about this cabin that screams premium anymore. On my red-eye flight earlier this week from Kona to LA, I found out that the food matches the…
Fly&Dine Lounge Review: Admirals Club at LAX
I got my brand new Citi Executive AAdvantage World Elite MasterCard for two reasons: 100,000 bonus AAdvantage miles and complimentary access to the Admirals Club. As an American Platinum flyer who uses LAX as my home base, that meant I was finally going to get to enjoy the mythical club that overlooks Terminal 4 at…
Upscale Mexican Food From Loteria Grill Comes to LAX Soon
The beauty of Facebook is that it takes news (and photos of babies and quizzes about which “Frozen” character you are) and puts it right in front of our faces. Case in point: the new locations of Loteria Grill at LAX in T5 and T7. A friend of a friend liked the post on Loteria…