Juan Valdez Café
Finding it
Juan Valdez Café is in 2nd Level Departures by Gate D-23 in North Terminal at Miami International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
North Terminal has 51 places to eat and 60 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 4am.
Hours against the security queue
Across the week, MIA security runs longest around 5pm at a median of 16 minutes, and lightest around 11pm at 2 minutes.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's MIA wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
Set by Gate D-23 on the North Terminal's 2nd Level Departures walk, this is MIA's only Juan Valdez Café, with no sister branch's hours for comparison. It opens at 5:30am, early enough to catch the terminal's first bank of D-gate departures, and keeps serving until 8:00pm. That makes it a coffee stop for early risers rather than late-night arrivals, since it closes well before the North Terminal's latest evening flights. The espresso-and-pastry counter format, grab-and-go by design, suits a quick stop between the security checkpoint and a gate on this stretch of the terminal.
Other options in North Terminal
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Official Travel Resources
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