Wide array: Passengers will have variety of food options as airport names vendors

Whether you have a hankering for burgers, breads or brews, the Salt Lake City International Airport will have a wide range of tastes available next year when the first phase of the airport’s redevelopment is completed.

The airport announced recently that 23 restaurant concepts will be opening in the fall of 2020, with options including American, Asian, Italian and Mexican fare.

“Our passengers are hungry for a variety of food and beverage options,” said Bill Wyatt, executive director of the Salt Lake City Department of Airports. “Today’s traveler expects airports to provide a quality selection of restaurants with affordable pricing. Whether its casual fare or fine dining, they will find it at The New SLC Airport.”

All of the restaurants will offer breakfast, lunch and dinner. The group includes returning restaurants Café Rio, Market Street Grill, Smashburger and Squatters.

Concourse A and the Terminal Plaza will include Beans & Brews, Bruges Belgian Bistro, Café Rio, California Pizza Kitchen, Fillings & Emulsions, Granatos, Market Street Grill, Panda Express, Pago, Panera Bread, Pizzeria Limone, Pulp Lifestyle Kitchen, Shake Shack, SLC Life Market/Creminelli Fine Meats, Squatters Pub, two Starbucks and White Horse Spirits & Kitchen.

Concourse B will feature Pick Up Stix, Silver Diner, Smashburger, Uinta Brewing Co. and Wasatch Pub.

Two options — Blue Lemon and a Starbucks — will be available in the pre-security area.

As will be the case with the retail component of redeveloped airport, street pricing is planned for food and beverage, meaning passengers will pay the same price charged at the store locations outside of the airport.

The Salt Lake City Department of Airports issued a request for proposals for the food and beverage options for the redevelopment’s first phase in June of last year.

The first phase of the redevelopment includes a central terminal, the west end of two concourses and a parking garage. A second phase is scheduled to be finished in late 2024 and will include the east end of the two concourses. Additional food and beverage concepts will be added in the second phase.

The existing airport has roughly 49,800 square feet of food and beverage space. The redevelopment will have 46,700 in the first phase and 28,400 in the second phase.

In December, airport officials announced the retail, news and gift stores to be part of the first phase. A total of 29 stores were selected. In Concourse A and terminal will be CNBC, Central Pointe Market, Coach, Deseret News, Dufry Duty Free, Frye, Hip & Humble, iStore, Johnston & Murphy, KSL-TV/King’s English, Land Speed Depot, MAC, No Boundaries, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Something Silver, Tech on the Go/Wicked, Trip Advisor/King’s English, Tumi, Visit Salt Lake and XpresSpa.

Concourse B will have Liberty Park Market with Hip & Humble, InMotion, Maverik, The Salt Lake Tribune, Tumi, Utah! and XpresSpa.

The pre-security area will have Hudson News and Maverik.