The Goddess & Grocer / Goddess to Go (Pre-Security Departures)
Finding it
The Goddess & Grocer / Goddess to Go (Pre-Security Departures) is in Pre-Security, Pre-Security Departures in Terminal 5 at O'Hare International Airport. It sits landside, so you can reach it without a boarding pass — and you still have to clear security afterwards.
Terminal 5 has 16 places to eat and 9 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.
Hours against the security queue
The Goddess & Grocer / Goddess to Go (Pre-Security Departures) opens at 5am and closes at 10pm. 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
This is the one stop in this batch still on the landside of the checkpoint, open from 5am, hours before most of the Concourse M restaurants across security get going. No alcohol is sold here. For anyone flying out of Terminal 5 with time before a checkpoint line, it's the only grab-and-go option in this group that doesn't require clearing security first, and it stays open until 10pm to cover the last landside departures of the night.
Other options in Terminal 5
All landside, so you can reach any of these before security.
Sources
- The Goddess and Grocer | O'Hare International Airport | Terminal 5 near Ticketing/Pre-Security — Chicago Department of Aviation, checked 2026-09-04
- Eat | Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) — Chicago Department of Aviation, checked 2026-09-09
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.