Beacon Bar & Kitchen
Hours
5:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Finding it
Beacon Bar & Kitchen is in Gate A11 in Terminal 4 near Gate A11 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
- Nearest gates
- Gate A11
- Level
- 1
Terminal 4 has 47 places to eat and 39 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.
Hours against the security queue
Beacon Bar & Kitchen opens at 5am and closes at 11pm. 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
Gate A11 sits down the row from Gate A8, where Delta's Sky Club and Hudson: Queens Beat cluster together. Beacon opens at 5:00 AM, a full hour ahead of Queens Beat but fifteen minutes after the Sky Club's 4:45 AM start, and it closes at 11:00 PM alongside Queens Beat while the lounge keeps going another half hour. SIM Cards, two gates over at A6, has no posted hours to weigh against that. Beacon is the only location of the brand at JFK, and its bar puts alcohol service at A11 that the nearer stops don't offer.
What to expect
- vegetarian
- bar
Other options in Terminal 4
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Sources
- Beacon Bar & Kitchen, Terminal 4 - John F. Kennedy International Airport — John F. Kennedy International Airport, checked 2026-09-10
Official Travel Resources
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