PONG’s plant-based buffet opens at 09.00 for early flights
PONG sits post-security at Göteborg Landvetter Airport, so you clear control once and then eat without clock-watching. The restaurant runs daily from 09.00–21.00, which covers most morning departures and late evening arrivals. If you land hungry from a European hop at 10.30 or wait on a 19.45 departure, the kitchen is open on both ends.
The menu leans hard into special diets: vegetarian, vegan, lactose-free and gluten-free options are all flagged as core, not afterthoughts. That makes PONG one of the safer bets in GOT if you travel with celiac, dairy issues, or stick to plant-based. You can order for eat-in or take away, so a rice bowl or salad box can ride with you to the gate instead of rushing a sit-down meal.
Pricing isn’t posted in advance, but airport Sweden rules apply: expect to pay more than city-centre Göteborg for similar vegetarian and vegan plates. The upside is less menu FOMO if you avoid meat or gluten, since the concept is built around those categories from the start. With everything past security, you avoid the 15–20 minute round-trip back through check-in hall food options.
Service hours from 09.00–21.00 mean breakfast-style options might blur into lunch if you show up around 10.45, and late diners at 20.30 are catching the last calls before close. Because it’s post-security, you need a same-day boarding pass; non-flying family saying goodbye has to eat landside instead. Take-away packaging makes it simple to grab something lactose-free or gluten-free as a backup in case the onboard buy-on-board runs out.
Practical tip: aim to hit PONG before the 11.30–13.00 bank of departures, when queues across GOT food outlets usually stretch and seats near the gates disappear.