La Carreta
Finding it
La Carreta is in 2nd Level Departures by Gate D-37 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
Posted by Gate D-37 on the North Terminal's 2nd Level Departures walk, this is MIA's only La Carreta, with no sibling location to compare hours against. It opens at 4:30am, hours before most of the terminal's other counters, making it one of the few sit-down options running for the earliest bank of D-gate departures. Service continues to 9:30pm, so it also covers the last flights out of the terminal. For anyone connecting through D gates on a red-eye arrival or a dawn departure, the 4:30am start is the detail that matters more than anything on the menu.
Other options in North Terminal
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.