Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf – Terminal B Pre-Security
Finding it
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf – Terminal B Pre-Security is in Departures in Terminal B at Los Angeles International Airport. It sits landside, so you can reach it without a boarding pass — and you still have to clear security afterwards.
Terminal B has 20 places to eat and 26 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.
Hours against the security queue
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf – Terminal B Pre-Security opens at 4:30am and closes at 11pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical LAX checkpoint queue at 9 minutes around 4am.
Across the week, LAX security runs longest around 12pm at a median of 20 minutes, and lightest around 1am at 2 minutes.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's LAX wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
This location sits landside in Terminal B's departures hall, before the checkpoint, so it catches passengers still queuing for security rather than those already through to the gates. Doors open at 4:30 am, ahead of the terminal's first security shift, and stay open until 11 pm, covering the late evening arrivals crowd waiting on rides. It shares the pre-security zone with none of Terminal B's other food options — 800 Degree Pizza, Beecher's Handmade Cheese and Border Grill are all past the checkpoint. Terminal B's other Coffee Bean sits in arrivals and shuts at 9:30 pm, so this counter is the one still pouring latest at the airport.
Other options in Terminal B
All landside, so you can reach any of these before security.
Official Travel Resources
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