Food at the Sea-Tac Airport

[alreynolds]

I'll be at the Seattle airport for 4 hours earlier than my plane leaves tomorrow. Any suggestions of good breakfast and/or coffee while I'm waiting for my flight?

[acgold7]

There's actually a huge food court in the central terminal between the B & C concourses:

http://www.seatacshops.com/central-terminal

You can click on the restaurant names and they'll give you the hours and a sense, I think, of what they serve. Some are actually decent. Each restaurant listing includes average customer rating, but I have no idea how they are tallied. Most serve breakfast items rather than their regular menus in the morning.

I've eaten at a few of their places and while none are anything to write home about, if you avoid the chains you'll do okay, I think. Dish D'Lish is local but overrated IMO. Anthony's and Ivar's are local as well and aren't bad. Both are chains but at least they are *local* chains. I had breakfast at the Africa Lounge once and it didn't suck. The sushi place in the central terminal rates well and the Mountain Bar in the A concourse scores pretty highly as well, but I haven't been to either.

Here's a list of all restaurants and coffee shops in the airport. You can select by the location near where you'll be.

http://www.seatacshops.com/eat

You're in Seattle, so obviously you can get great coffee everywhere except Starbucks.

[Charles]

Whenever we are leaving on a flight, if we have time to kill we go to Anthony’s and sit at the bar. The food is fine, but we really go there because it is set away a bit from the masses and never a screaming child. I usually have the giant Bloody Marry (sans shrimp) and a small order of the breakfast tacos. I then can often sleep through takeoff ;) .

The food is tasty enough but, really I go there for the “atmosphere” plus if you like you can watch the planes take off.

[alreynolds]

Ah! Next time I will try that Charles! For the record, I had a Ephemere dark chocolate mocha from Dilettante and a dungeness crab breakfast sandwich from Ivar's, both in the main food court. The mocha was awesome, but next time I'll try the extra dark. The dungeness crab sandwich was good, the crab was fresh, but the egg and cheese seemed to overpower the crab. My suggestion would be to get a normal sandwich and spring for the crab cocktail if you want the crab. :)

[Brunhilde]

I usually do the same, but skip the tacos and keep the shrimp. And one is never enough.