Mezze Cafe
Finding it
Mezze Cafe is in Departures, Level 3 in Terminal 8 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It sits landside, so you can reach it without a boarding pass — and you still have to clear security afterwards.
- Level
- 2
Terminal 8 has 49 places to eat and 50 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.
Hours against the security queue
Across the week, JFK security runs longest around 8am at a median of 33 minutes, and lightest around 2am at 10 minutes.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's JFK wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
This cafe sits on Terminal 8's departures level, on Level 2, before the checkpoint rather than among the concourses beyond security. That landside position puts it in the path of passengers still working through check-in rather than travelers already at their gate, closer to ticketing than to any boarding lounge. It's the only Mezze Cafe in the terminal, with no sibling counter elsewhere in Terminal 8's concourses or on the airside side of the checkpoint.
Other options in Terminal 8
All landside, so you can reach any of these before security.
Sources
- OpenStreetMap — airport venue data — OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0), checked 2026-09-10
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.