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I hope you’re ready for some noodles. Yesterday marked the opening of Cathay Pacific’s newest lounge, the first operated by a non-Japanese carrier at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport (HND). The Hong Kong-based airline is located on Level 6 near Gate 114 with room for almost 200 people in the nearly 11,000 sq. ft. space. They’re going…
If you’ve arrived here looking for a write-up of free massages or in-lounge accountants doing your taxes for free or something, you’re about to be sorely disappointed. I was just in Madrid — oh, hey TONS OF MADRID STORIES — and found a new little friend in Iberia’s SaliDali Lounge at MAD. Judging by the…
A couple of weeks ago, I ran a giveaway where readers had to mention their favorite airport deals in order to enter. While some of you took the pessimistic “There are deals at the airport?!? LOL! OMG! SO FUNNY!,” other people weighed in with great advice and instead of letting it all languish in the…
If you want to find the best restaurants, you have to go to someone on the inside. While food writers like me think we’re the experts, the true voices of reason come from inside the kitchens themselves: the chefs. That’s why I put so much stock in this list that Conde Nast Traveler put together…
Don’t sound so surprised, pal. Reindeer is a part of Finnish cuisine and of course there’s Finnish food at the airport — when it’s an airport in Finland. If you’re like me, though, you probably don’t know much about Finnish food. I’m a professional food writer and I couldn’t name the top dish in Finland…
Who doesn’t love a nice stop at the Duty Free shop? The liquor selection is usually enormous and without paying that tax, you’re saving a nice chunk of change. Food Republic contributor Emily Saladino (disclosure: I don’t know her, but I’ve been a columnist for Food Republic for years) dives into the airport liquor (and…
When celebrity chefs and airport restaurants collide, the results can be quite polarizing. Some times (*cough* Wolfgang Puck *cough*) it’s just another branded marketing opportunity for the chef to get rich without actually being ever being present. Other times, though, these celeb chefs raise the entire level of airport dining with thoughtful additions to terminals…
One of the most successful Fly&Dine stories of all time was about a Chinese man who was able to game the system at his local airport to eat in the first class lounge for free by continually extending the outbound date on his refundable first class ticket. Well, it looks like somebody else tried to…
Tales from the Runway features stories of air travel terror and delight from the Fly&Dine community. Here’s Esther Tseng, LA blogging superstar of e*star LA, on finding ramen nirvana at a regional Japanese airport during a recent snowboarding trip: The mere idea that I would choose to eat at an airport is ludicrous, really. But…
It’s becoming quite the trend these days for major media outlets to publish a list of their top airport restaurant picks and cable news giant CNN is the latest to jump on the bandwagon (or intra-terminal shuttle, as the case may be). They just published a story about their top 14 airport restaurants and, in…
Happy Easter Sunday to those celebrating! Have you had a good week? I have. Now that the bulk of my Hong Kong stories are done and posted (one more coming this week and then we’re totally done), I thought it would be a good idea to do a little wrap-up of all the stories I…
When it comes to Hong Kong International Airport (HKG), Cathay Pacific pretty much rules the roost. How else to explain the fact that they operate five different lounges at HKG? FIVE! That’s a tremendous amount and during my recent trip back from HKG -> LAX, I had just enough time to stop in at two…
If you’ve never ventured outside of the bubble of American food television, then you probably think Heston Blumenthal is some sort of children’s author or a tech magnate. Not the case. While you were watching Guy Fieri get excited about cream of mayo soup, Blumenthal was well past making a name for himself as one…
So I was cruising around Twitter and came across this tweet from @steglobal (retweeted by Heathrow Airport): Superb thought by Gordon Ramsey – @planefood in @HeathrowAirport have picnic boxes to takeaway in chill bags. BRAVO ! pic.twitter.com/4yYD41wQje — ste global (@steglobal) February 17, 2014 That. Looks. Awesome. Allow me to dissect the tweet…
