Island Chicken Grill
Hours
7:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Alcohol
No
Finding it
Island Chicken Grill is in 2nd Level Departures in South Terminal at Miami International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
South Terminal has 21 places to eat and 42 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 4:30am.
Hours against the security queue
Island Chicken Grill opens at 7am and closes at 9pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical MIA checkpoint queue at 8 minutes around 7am.
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
On the 2nd Level Departures in the South Terminal, this is the only Island Chicken Grill at MIA, with no sibling counter elsewhere in the airport to compare hours or placement against. It sits in a food cluster with Subway, Farm2Air Market and Carlo's Bake Shop Express, giving South Terminal travelers a hot-plate option alongside the sandwich and bakery formats nearby. Because it's a single-location concept here, its footprint is fixed to this one concourse rather than repeated across terminals, so travelers connecting through other parts of MIA won't find a second outpost to fall back on.
What to expect
- american
Other options in South Terminal
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Sources
- MIA Shopping Directory data feed — Miami International Airport, checked 2026-09-08
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.