Yankee Pier, the latest Priority Pass restaurant at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), offers a quick and hearty breakfast.
Priority Pass recently added two restaurants at SFO, Yankee Pier and San Francisco Giant’s Clubhouse. Both are located in Terminal 3 (United). Yankee Pier is open 5:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. while San Francisco Giant’s Clubhouse is open from 5:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M.
I’ve passed Yankee Pier for 15 years as I walked to the United Club or American Express Centurion Lounge and never had a reason to stop. But with $28/person in restaurant credit, I could not turn down breakfast here earlier this week.
You’ll find Yankee Pier in Concourse F, near Gate 72. The restaurant was fairly crowded, but there was no wait for a table.
Here’s the breakfast menu:
I ordered plain yogurt, a cappuccino, and the meat lover’s breakfast scramble (served with potatoes and toast).
All the food arrived at once, within 5-6 minutes of ordering.
I’d rate the food as good, but actually not better than the nearby American Express Centurion Lounge. For that reason, I’ll head directly to the AMEX lounge next time for breakfast. In fact, after my breakfast I did stop by the AMEX lounge for a slice of French Toast and some berries:
The bill came out to $24. I could have walked away without opening my wallet (other than to scan my Priority Pass card). But I believe it is appropriate to tip at Priority Pass restaurants and asked my server to charge my card $0.01 and add a $5 tip. He looked shocked that I would leave a tip, which is not a good testament to my fellow Priority Pass users.
Don’t get too comfortable, as the restaurant does not have any power ports at the tables and booths (no doubt deliberately).
CONCLUSION
I’ll have to come back for dinner and try the clam chowder soup and other seafood. While breakfast was fine and it was nice to find a seat quickly, I’ll stick to the Centurion Lounge.
Thanks. Always great to see a real world report on these new restaurant options. I would have loved to see what that crab Benedict looked like. Scrambled eggs and plain yogurt, you’re right, you can get anywhere.
Can’t wait for an evening review since I’m never at SFO in the morning if I’m connecting.
Thanks for reading Donald!
I was in recently and ordered the crab scramble….was indeed fresh and tasty and especially a nice, lighter option with the added spinach. Ordered a side of bacon too for good measure though! Great to have not 1 but 2 PP options in the United terminal at my home airport.
@ Matthew — Why charge your card $0.01? Was this for some sort of record-keeping?
They said it was necessary in order to leave a tip. Had they just charged my card $5, it would not have been a tip and gone to the house, not the waiter.
@ Matthee — Good to know! It always disappoints me when people think the tip on something complimentary
is zero. I feel for the workers, who barely get by as it is. Thanks.
Does this place have any relationship to the Yankee Candle corporation?
Not to my knowledge, though I also note the similarity in logos.
2 out of 3 times I walk by Yankee Pier, I smell bad fish — you know that ammonia smell that comes from really bad seafood that will make you sick. I could never bring myself to eat there, even for free.
FYI you can do takeout orders with PP at this restaurant, ordered a breakfast sandwich with sausage instead of ham, came with breakfast potatoes, liked it better than usual AMEX fare but the french toast at AMEX recently has been excellent, almost as good as the crispy french toast it launched with.
I was excited to read about these new priority pass reaututants and, tried to stop by to grab breakfast for my family for our recent 6 am flight. But despite both having 5 am posted openings, we found niether to actually be open. Yankee Pier had a lot of staff prepping food and what not, and when I asked I was just told that they’d be opening in 30 to 45 minutes. When I asked about the 5 am posted opening time I just got a confused look. By the time we got to the giants clubhouse they were starting to open, now we’ll past 5 am, but we no longer had time to order anything. I was pretty bummed out.
I’m sorry to hear that. Thanks for sharing!