Half Moon Empanadas

They replaced the Starbucks near Terminal D escalators with this Half Moon Empanadas a few months ago and I love empanadas, so I stopped in one morning for an empanada. They have a huge selection of savory and several sweet flavors to choose from. The young lady working the counter was very friendly, so I asked her which was better between spinach or spicy chicken and she said spicy chicken was her favorite, so I went with it.They're slightly pricey, at $7 each, but they're packed and a decent size. This spicy chicken empanada was great! Nice flavors and not too spicy, just a slight kick. The dough was very good and the whole thing stayed together nicely without falling apart. It also wasn't greasy at all.Really good empanadas here!

For empanadas at an airport, it's a 4 star. I grew on empanadas and while it's not quite the same, it's a decent offering for being at an airport! The crust is a bit thin.. but the filling amount was adequate. We went for spicy chicken, spicy beef, and dulce de leche. Spicy chicken appeared shredded/minced(?). Was a bit dry, but again, not terrible. No veggies from what I could tell.Spicy beef appeared shredded/minced and was moist. A tad oily, so watch out for your clothes. No veggies from what I can tell. Dulce de leche was creamy... a bit on the sweet side, as it's supposed to be. Would definitely grab these as a snack, again!

I was browsing the breakfast options at DCA, and I was really drawn to these empanadas. I had never tried a bad empanada until now. I had the bacon, egg, and cheese empanada, their most popular breakfast item, and the dulce de leche empanada, which is one of their dessert items. The shell tasted kind of hard and stale when I bit into the breakfast empanada, but I thought the egg filling inside was okay. The dulce de leche empanada, however, was dreadful. I generally like dulce de leche desserts, but the sickly sweet brown paste that literally spurted out at every bite combined with the staleness of the empanada crust was not a good combination. This was a memorable, and not in a good way, airport breakfast for $14.30.

I don't know what their other empanadas taste like, but the guava & cheese empanada was YUMMY! It was definitely worth the $7.

As an employee at the airport I was excited to see Half Moon opening a shop at DCA. Whenever I fly to the Dominican, I always stop by gate D29 to get 2 or 3 empenadas from Half Moon during my connection. I've never gotten a bad empenada from them and they're always fresh. Sadly I can't say the same for DCA. I visited 3 times at the DCA location and the empenadas always seem dry and overcooked inside, not to mention they're $7 a piece compared to $5.50 in Miami.

This is a new food option in terminal B. There is one of these in the Miami airport too. I heard other customers complaining about the price on my second visit but I knew, they are really good. Better than the other breakfast options, and they have an espresso machine. The americano was very good and what brought me back a second time.

The spicy beef empanada was reallllly good when I had a four hour layover here. Friendly staff suggested the spicy beef over the chicken and spicy chicken so I went with that and it was definitely the right move. Fair price for something light but filling.

Service is terrific and the empanadas are delicious! They were so helpful which brightened the start of my day!

Food =delicious They were fun to discover {^*^}! Awesome. Sigma. Amazing. Delicious. Sad that you can only get it at Reagan Airport

Thought these would be good while I waited for my flight. I had the beef and chicken empanada because they were out of everything else. They were ok, kind of pasty tasting. Taco Bell is better tbh. Staff was friendly though.