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Fro-yo girl here. For an older (it opened in 1999) medium-sized airport, Austin Bergstrom (ABIA) is quite nice. It does look older but it has many local restaurants, bars, and gift shops. There are about 34 gates with two runways.

I spotted some artwork and lots of information about the bats of Austin. Most of the eateries are local. You can find pizza, burgers, tacos (of course), Einsteins Bagels, Salt Lick BBQ, JuiceLand, Amy’s Ice Cream and more. There is more than one place to get Salt Lick sandwiches. For shopping, they had a bookstore, candy store, duty free store, and more. I also spotted Sprinkles cupcake vending machines and a robotic coffee barista.

You can pick up BBQ sauce from Franklin BBQ and other BBQ restaurants.

It’s also the home of the last Berry Austin (froyo). Berry Austin also serves smoothies and acai bowls.

The airport is lively. I noticed there weren’t that many tables or places to work on your laptop.

The TSA agents were pleasant, and it didn’t take long to get through security. There are two levels – gates on the upper level, baggage claim below. Parking is across the street in a structure. The airport is about 5 miles from downtown Austin.

What’s missing: a motorized walkway, places to stretch out and sleep.

You know you love me. xo xo, fro-yo girl.

4 out of 5 stars

Tacodeli is one of the restaurants at the Austin Bergestrom Airport. They’re a well-known Austin taqueria chain founded in 1999 and now found in other Texas cities as well. They’re known for tacos, including breakfast tacos. The tacos are hand-crafted and the salsas are award-winning. They use better quality meats (chicken with no antibiotics, local grassfed beef, organic pork). They also have salads.

At the airport, you can order from two self-service kiosks or grab pre-made warm tacos ($5.75 each). They’re wrapped in foil. They had four kinds of grab n go tacos. The tacos are served on flour tortillas.

Frontera fundido chicken taco: lots of grilled chicken breast, some cheese, sauteed poblano-onion rajas.  I didn’t get any salsa. This was bland. Salsa would have helped.

Puerco verde tacoi: pork shoulder, salsa verde, queso fresco, cilantro, onion. I didn’t get separate salsa but the taco contained salsa. This had more flavor than the chicken taco. The salsa made a difference and the meat also had more flavor. The pork was tender.

There is an airport surcharge of 2.8%. By airport standards, this place isn’t bad.

3.5 out of 5 stars

doesn’t like tacos?!??!!! my answer is basically the exact opposite. I’ve never met a taco i didn’t like. i can’t think of my favorite because i’ve had and enjoyed every taco i could get my hands on. i myself am texmex, and you eat what you are or whatever the saying is