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Eatzi’s Market & Bakery is opening inside this DFW International Airport terminal

Eatzi’s is planning to open inside DFW International Airport later in 2023.
Eatzi’s is planning to open inside DFW International Airport later in 2023. Star-Telegram/Rodger Mallison

Come this fall, travelers will be able to grab gourmet goodies as they hustle to their gates at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Eatzi’s Market & Bakery is going into the airport’s Terminal D, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The terminal services many of DFW’s international flights.

Eatzi’s Market & Bakery, Pastry counter
Eatzi’s Market & Bakery, Pastry counter Brandon Lajoie

Eatzi’s is a European-style gourmet grocer and bakery known for its take-out and packaged meals and custom sandwiches, specialty foods, wines and sweets. Its chefs have more than 4,000 proprietary recipes as well as made-to-order omelets, pasta, grilled salmon, salads and freshly prepared sushi.

The chef’s case at Eatzi’s Market & Bakery.
The chef’s case at Eatzi’s Market & Bakery. BRANDON LAJOIE Star-Telegram archives

In January 2020, Eatzi’s won a contract to develop restaurants in DFW’s future Terminal F. But the pandemic hit just after that announcement, putting plans on hold for $3.5 billion in airport expansion projects.

Work on the new Eatzi’s concession space in Terminal D will begin March 1 and wrap by August, according to the state filing. The project is estimated at $900,000.

Eatzi’s has six locations in the Metroplex, one of which opened in 2017 in Fort Worth’s University Park Village. Other stores are in Grapevine and the Dallas area.

Chef Esbidy Benitez serves up breakfast at Eatzi’s Market & Bakery in Grapevine in 2016.
Chef Esbidy Benitez serves up breakfast at Eatzi’s Market & Bakery in Grapevine in 2016. Rodger Mallison rmallison@star-telegram.com

Airlines operating in DFW’s Terminal D include American, Sun Country Airlines and DFW’s international carriers: AeroMexico, Air France, Avianca, British Airways, Emirates, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Lufthansa, QANTAS, Qatar Airways, Viva Aerobus and Volaris.

This story was originally published February 3, 2023 at 10:45 AM.

Matt Leclercq
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Matt Leclercq is senior managing editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He previously was an editor at USA Today in Washington, national news editor at Gatehouse Media in Austin, and executive editor of The Fayetteville (NC) Observer. He’s a New Orleans native.
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