Protein Bar & Kitchen
Hours
5:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Alcohol
No
Finding it
Protein Bar & Kitchen is in Concourse M, Near Gate M15 in Terminal 5 near Gate M15 at O'Hare International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
- Nearest gates
- Gate M15
- Level
- 2
Terminal 5 has 16 places to eat and 9 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.
Hours against the security queue
Protein Bar & Kitchen opens at 5am and closes at 9pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical ORD checkpoint queue at 20 minutes around 5am.
Across the week, ORD security runs longest around 4am at a median of 27 minutes, and lightest around 2am at 1 minute. The queue is typically building before this location opens.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's ORD wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
On Level 2 near Gate M15, this stop sits at the far end of Terminal 5's food cluster from Big Bowl, Burger King, Chick-Fil-A and Dunkin' Donuts, which are grouped closer to the concourse's middle. It's the only Protein Bar & Kitchen at O'Hare, with no sibling location in any other terminal to compare it against. For someone gated at the higher M15-and-up range in the international terminal, it's a shorter walk than backtracking to the mid-concourse cluster where the rest of Concourse M's options sit.
Other options in Terminal 5
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Sources
- Eat - O'Hare International Airport — Chicago Department of Aviation, checked 2026-09-09
- OpenStreetMap — airport venue data — OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0), checked 2026-09-09
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.