BLD
Finding it
BLD is in Departures in Terminal 7 at Los Angeles International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
Terminal 7 has 10 places to eat and 6 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 4am.
Hours against the security queue
BLD opens at 5am and closes at 10pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical LAX checkpoint queue at 9 minutes around 5am.
Across the week, LAX security runs longest around 12pm at a median of 20 minutes, and lightest around 1am at 2 minutes. This location is already open before those queues build.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's LAX wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
Opens at 5am, ahead of the first wave of Terminal 7's departures, and stays open until 10pm, one of the few sit-down options in the terminal running dinner service that late. It sits among a short row of restaurants that includes B Grill by Boa Steakhouse and Ashland Hill, but is the only one of the three built around an all-day American menu rather than a single cuisine. LAX has no second BLD, so whatever a traveler orders here is a one-time stop, not a location they'll see again on a connection through another terminal.
Other options in Terminal 7
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.