Ku-Va Restaurant & Bar
Finding it
Ku-Va Restaurant & Bar is in Concourse D, 2nd Level Departures in North Terminal at Miami International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
North Terminal has 51 places to eat and 60 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.
Hours against the security queue
Ku-Va Restaurant & Bar opens at 6am and closes at 10pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical MIA checkpoint queue at 16 minutes around 6am.
Across the week, MIA security runs longest around 5pm at a median of 16 minutes, and lightest around 11pm at 2 minutes. The queue is typically building before this location opens.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's MIA wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
This is the only Ku-Va Restaurant & Bar at MIA, so its hours stand on their own rather than against a sibling. Doors open at 5:30am, ahead of the terminal's main breakfast rush, and service runs to 8:00pm, closing well before the North Terminal's latest departures. It's the bar-and-table-service format rather than a counter, which sets it apart from the quicker Cuban counters elsewhere on the 2nd Level Departures walk. For someone with an early boarding call and time for a sit-down mojito or a plate of ropa vieja before heading to the gate, the 5:30am open is what makes that possible.
What to expect
- seafood
- burgers
Other options in North Terminal
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Sources
- JSON behind https://www.shopmiamiairport.com/directory — Miami International Airport, checked 2026-09-08
Official Travel Resources
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