The Skinny Pancake, Burlington Airport, Vermont

 This is what airport food should taste like, but rarely does.  We flew in and out of the Burlington, Vermont airport recently and had the good luck to arrive for our outgoing flight early enough to have breakfast in the terminal.  Everything about this place was noteworthy--the locally sourced food, the locally made tables and chairs, and the broad selction of foods to choose from (which, judging by the menu, get even better as the day progresses).

We had a vegetable and egg breakfast crepe (which comes with a very nicely dressed side salad) and a Cobb salad--both were delicious.  The Cobb salad had Vermont's star blue cheese, Bailey Hazen Blue from Jasper Farms, Vermont bacon that tasted of both apple and maple, and vegetables that had both flavor and crunch.  So often an airport salad is listless in both flavor and texture--not so here.  Our kids had more traditional crepes, which were also quite good.

This is a very small trend that I would love to see take off--the United terminals in Chigago have a couple of nice dining options, but that is the exception rather than the norm.  I would love to see good to great food served at airports for several reason--first, there is nothing worth eating on the vast majority of flights, then the fact that travelers are spending more hours in airports due to travel rules and delays, and finally because we have incredible choices of food outside airports and those improvements should become part of airport food vendor options.  Hooray for the Skinny Pancake!