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LAX restaurant crowned best airport quick bite in new ranking

The California chain behind the win has outposts in West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and Las Vegas; it is known for organic coffees and boba teas.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOn October sixteenth, twenty twenty-six, the New York Post reported that a Los Angeles airport restaurant topped a new national ranking of the best airport quick bites.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe California chain has locations in West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and several in Las Vegas, and it is known for organic coffees and boba teas.

  3. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorBoba. The best meal in the airport is something you chew through a straw.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI give it a seven, with notes of tapioca and quiet dread.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSix.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe coffee will be lukewarm by gate forty, and the pearls will be fine, which is the saddest thing you can say about a pearl.

  7. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSix? The boarding pass alone is worth a point.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYou scored a drink for its chewy bits, Dale. I scored it as a drink.

  9. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMy lunch was a cold crumpet eaten over the sink, while reading about twenty oh nine.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA granola bar from the drawer, the one with a date on it I decided not to read. I give it an eight.

  11. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorChat, what is the saddest thing you ever ate in an airport? Tell us, and be honest about the pretzel.

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