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The Palm Bar & Grille storefront at Terminal 4

The Palm Bar & Grille

Terminal 4•Retail Hall•Post-Security
SandwichesSeafoodBurgers

Hours

5:00 AM - 10:00 PM

The Palm Bar & Grille grills up high-quality steaks and offers a variety of seafood dishes.

Finding it

The Palm Bar & Grille is in Retail Hall in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.

Level
3

Terminal 4 has 47 places to eat and 39 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.

Hours against the security queue

The Palm Bar & Grille opens at 5am and closes at 10pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical JFK checkpoint queue at 28 minutes around 5am.

Across the week, JFK security runs longest around 8am at a median of 33 minutes, and lightest around 2am at 10 minutes. The queue is typically building before this location opens.

Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's JFK wait-time record, not a live reading.

About this location

Opens at 5:00 AM in Terminal 4's Retail Hall, the earliest of the restaurants on this floor, and runs until 10:00 PM. Steak, seafood and burgers put it well above the sandwich-and-candy tier of its Retail Hall neighbors — this is a sit-down bar with a full grill menu, not a counter. That early start makes it one of the only options for a hot breakfast ahead of a 6:00 AM Terminal 4 departure, while the shops around it, Hugo Boss and Kiehl's among them, are still dark.

What to expect

  • sandwiches
  • seafood
  • burgers
  • steak

Other options in Terminal 4

All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.

Sources

Official Travel Resources

1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.

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