Time is ticking for travelers craving Smashburgers before a Boise Airport flight
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- Boise Airport replaces longtime eateries like Smashburger and Einstein Bros.
- New vendors include local names like The STIL, Blue Sky Bagels and Form & Function
- Renovation project completes in late 2025 with phased vendor openings ongoing
The Boise Airport’s food and merchandise makeover is on its way to completion. Several restaurants and shops are departing to make way for new ones.
Before these restaurants close, you may want to stop by Einstein Bros. Bagels, Smashburger, Harvest & Grounds and River City Coffee & Cafe.
In June 2024, the Boise Airport announced its plan to replace or renovate the sites of all vendors as their 10-year concessions contracts came up for renewal. The goal is to highlight the best of Boise with local restaurants and shops that travelers can enjoy while passing through. The new restaurants and shops were chosen after a public solicitation for proposals.
Construction on all of the new vendors will be finished up by the end of 2025, according to Boise Airport spokesperson Jennifer Kronberg.
Some are already open:
- Treefort Outpost Food + Drink. The restaurant, run by the operators of the Treefort Music Hall, replaced 13th Street Bar & Grill and Parilla Grill. It sits in Concourse B before the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint.
- Idaho Tap House, which replaced Cross Grains Brewhouse, a bar in Concourse B near gate B11.
Others will open in the next couple of weeks, Kronberg told the Statesman:
- Waffle Me Up and The STIL will be together at a newly constructed vendor site located in the center area at the food court of Concourse B. The STIL, an acronym for “sweetest things in life” is a local ice cream shop known for selling ice cream with unique flavors.
- Turas Flights & Bites by Telaya Wine Co., a wine bar, will occupy a new vendor site in Concourse C.
Still others are under construction or soon will be:
- Two local coffee shops, Form & Function and Away by Flying M, will replace Harvest & Grounds in Concourse C. A third, River City Coffee & Cafe, will be in Concourse B.
- Two national chains, Protein Bar & Kitchen and Pizza Hut, are being built in Concourse B at the food court in a shared vendor site.
- Blue Sky Bagels, a local bagel shop being added to the airport, will join Protein Bar & Kitchen and Pizza Hut at the same vendor site.
- Starbucks and Wendy’s will replace Einstein Bros. Bagels and Smashburger both in Concourse B at the food court.
Bardenay, a well-known Basque restaurant in Boise, is sticking around but undergoing renovations in Concourse B.
A few new general-merchandise shops have already been added to the airport, replacing the old ones:
- Sawtooth Essentials was added this year to Concourse B near Gate B15.
- Travel @ Ease vending recently replaced the CNBC Express kiosk near Gate B18.
- Boise Depot replaced the CNBC Express in Concourse C.
Two more are under construction:
- Capital City Public Market, which is replacing Greenbelt Market in Concourse B, will sell airport essentials, snacks and souvenirs.
- The Shop @ Treasure Valley will replace the Idaho Statesman shop and will also sell airport essentials, snacks and souvenirs.
To see which vendors are open and which are under construction, visit the airport’s interactive map.
