Atlanta Airport-Decent non-fast food breakfast place

In my haste to find a great airfare, I now have an almost three-hour layover at the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. Have flown thru there dozens of times, but never had this much time. Since this is the start of my 10-day vacation (to South Texas) and since I will arrive about 7:45 AM after an EARLY flight from PA, I am looking for a decent in-airport restaurant to have a NON-FAST FOOD breakfast. Some place relaxing and with good coffee would be great! Any ideas?????

Atlanta Airport-Decent non-fast food breakfast place

That is a good question. Personally, I don%26#39;t know of one. Perhaps the other locals can answer because I would like to go there too. We have discussed airport food before. I believe the consensus is that there really is not a special place at the Atlanta airport.

My experience has always been bad or mediocre food with indifferent service.

Atlanta Airport-Decent non-fast food breakfast place

Psuag

Not to hijack your thread but, besides answering this question, could anyone tell me of any exceptional airport food they have had anywhere? I cannot think of any from any of my travels. I can think of several bad experiences.

Here is a past discussion about Hartsfield airport restaurants.

http://tinyurl.com/pz98w

I agree that there%26#39;s nothing decent at the airport. I always just go to Starbucks for the same pumpkin scone and capucchino.

starbucks is about as far as i%26#39;ve venture too. the only good airport food i can recall was at o%26#39;hare at a wolfgang pucks. nothing 4 star about that either but in all fairness it was about 10 times as good as any other sandwich i had ever had in any other airport.

Oddly, Cincinnati has some decent restaurants.

Both Houlihan%26#39;s which is upstairs at the atrium and Paschal%26#39;s downstairs at the atrium food court are open for breakfast at that time. Even though Paschal%26#39;s could be considered fast food, they serve a traditional southern breakfast, that is actually quite tasty. Houlihan%26#39;s makes a mean Eggs Benedict with hashbrowns and french toast.

Thanks all! Guess I will check out Paschal%26#39;s or Houlihan%26#39;s. Very weary of Fourbucks (Starbucks) (:-)

Psuag

Please report back how your breakfast was-the price and the service.

Don%26#39;t know if Atlanta Bread Company counts as fast food for you, but there%26#39;s one in the Atrium area next to the Houlihan%26#39;s mentioned earlier. It%26#39;s open 24 hours. It%26#39;s still a counter-service, take-it-to-the-table-yourself place, but it has it%26#39;s own seating area as opposed to the common food-court style seating across the way at Paschal%26#39;s/Wendy%26#39;s/Domino%26#39;s. It does get pretty crowded that time of day. Paschal%26#39;s also serves breakfast, and the food%26#39;s good, but the rest of the dining experience there is strictly food-court.

To get to the Atrium area, you do have to exit the secured area and go through security again to get back to your gate, so don%26#39;t go there unless you%26#39;re sure you%26#39;ve got your boarding pass on you and have enough time to deal with a wait of up to 15-20 minutes at that time of day, though it usually takes less.

You can see for yourself what%26#39;s in the airport at http://www.atlanta-airport.com; click on the ';Shops and Restaurants'; link, and then select ';Food and Beverage'; from the popup menu on the right and the concourse you%26#39;re interested in to see what%26#39;s there. Concourses A %26amp; B are all Delta. C is mostly AirTran, as well as a handful of other airlines, and D is almost everything else, including a few more Delta gates. The T concourse is mostly American and Delta. I can%26#39;t unreservedly recommend any place in the airport based on your criteria, but if you can tell us which airline(s) you%26#39;re flying in and out on, I might be able to steer you to the best of the convenient options (I fly from or to Hartsfield nearly 100 times/year).