Heathrow Terminal 4 restaurants, cafes, and bars

Landside food at T4 is three venues, split between the departures concourse and the arrivals hall. Before security in departures, Co-Pilots Bar and Kitchen is the only sit-down option, with a Caffe Nero next to it for coffee or a quicker stop. A Costa Coffee sits separately in the arrivals hall, useful on landing rather than departing. Both Caffe Nero and Costa run 24 hours a day, the only 24-hour food and drink at T4 and the most useful single fact for early-morning or overnight long-haul arrivals.

Co-Pilots Bar and Kitchen, run by Rhubarb Hospitality Collection, is the proper landside meal. The room is themed around 1950s aviation, with photographs, propeller dressings, and a long bar at one end. The menu is British and international, with table service across breakfast, lunch, and dinner from a brasserie kitchen. The Caffe Nero next door covers the coffee-and-sandwich market for travellers in a hurry or just dropping someone off; Costa in arrivals is the answer if you are coming off a long-haul in the small hours and need a coffee before the rest of Terminal 4 itself wakes up.

If you are dropping someone at T4 and want to share a meal before they head through, Co-Pilots covers it. For anything beyond a brasserie meal or a coffee, the wider list is in the airside departure lounge.

The airside choice at T4 is six venues, all in the main departure lounge. Wild Olive sits near Gate 7 at the closer end of the concourse; Star Light (a J D Wetherspoon pub) sits at Gate 20; The Prince of Wales is near Gate 21 on the same pier; The Commission is on the post-security central concourse; Comptoir Libanais is at the far end. A Pret A Manger covers the airside chain market.

T4 is the most awkward of the four terminals to reach by rail. Heathrow Express does not stop here; the direct trains are the Elizabeth Line (four trains an hour from Paddington, around 35 minutes) and the Piccadilly Line. Passengers from the other terminals reach T4 via the Elizabeth Line (free between Heathrow stations) or the free airside Flight Connections coach. This matters for eating because the T4 food offer is materially lighter than Terminal 2 restaurants, Terminal 3 restaurants, or Terminal 5 restaurants; if you are connecting with a long wait, a stop in T2 or T3 is usually a better use of the time. For the routes between terminals see transferring between Heathrow terminals.

Four sit-down restaurants at T4 are worth knowing by name: one landside before security, three airside in the departure lounge. See where the venues sit in Terminal 4 for the landside and airside split. The landside one is the only proper meal you can take pre-security.

Co-Pilots Bar and Kitchen (landside)

Rhubarb Hospitality Collection's brasserie, in the landside departures concourse. The room is themed around 1950s aviation, with photographs, propeller dressings, and a long bar at one end. The menu is British and international: full breakfast, salads, burgers, fish and chips, steak, pasta, plus a cocktail list. Table service throughout. The only proper landside sit-down at T4.

The Commission

Drake and Morgan's 175-seat bar and restaurant on the post-security central concourse. Modern British plates, breakfast through dinner, with a strong cocktail and wine list. Open from first to last flight, broadly 06:00 to 22:00. A more contemporary option than the pubs further down the pier, and the strongest airside sit-down at T4.

Wild Olive

Mediterranean and Middle Eastern menu at Gate 7, on the closer end of the airside concourse. Mezze, halloumi, flatbreads, mixed grills, salads, plus breakfasts in the early morning. Open 05:30 to 21:30. Useful if you want something lighter and more vegetable-led than the pubs at the far end.

Comptoir Libanais

Lebanese mezze, wraps, hot meals, and salads, served at table with a quick turnaround. At the far end of the airside concourse. Pre-order via the Heathrow app is available. The right call if your gate is at the far end and you want a sit-down meal rather than walking back.

Two pubs sit airside at T4, both on the gate pier. The bar element also runs inside The Commission on the central concourse for those who prefer cocktails to a pint. There is no dedicated landside pub at T4; before security, Co-Pilots covers the cocktail-and-beer side as part of its brasserie service.

Star Light (J D Wetherspoon)

Wetherspoon's airside T4 pub at Gate 20, opened October 2023 in the former Carluccio's unit. The standard Wetherspoon menu (burgers, fish and chips, all-day breakfast, Sunday roast, curry) at Wetherspoon pricing, with the brewery's full beer range. Open 05:30 to 21:30. Order at the table through the J D Wetherspoon app or at the bar. This is the cheapest sit-down meal at T4 by a clear margin.

The Prince of Wales

Traditional British pub near Gate 21, on the same gate pier as Star Light. Full English breakfast through to fish and chips and Sunday roast, with a standard beer and wine selection. Trades from morning through to the last flight of the day.

Cocktails and wine airside

For cocktails and wine over a pint, The Commission on the central airside concourse runs the full cocktail and wine list alongside its restaurant menu. There is no dedicated standalone cocktail bar at T4; the bar half of The Commission is the closest equivalent.

T4 has the thinnest quick-service offer of any Heathrow terminal. One named chain runs airside; the coffee chains landside cover the morning and overnight market between them.

Pret A Manger (airside)

Pret's airside outlet at T4, on the departures concourse. Standard ready-made sandwiches, salads, hot drinks, pastries, and hot wraps. Open 06:00 to 21:00. The only proper quick-service chain past security at T4.

Landside, the chain coverage is the Caffe Nero in the departures concourse and the Costa Coffee in the arrivals hall, both trading 24 hours a day. Neither has a T4-specific menu; the offer is the same as the rest of the airport. For take-away purchases on the way to the gate, the airside duty free stores carry packaged food alongside the alcohol and gifts.

Two 24-hour cafes are the T4 coffee story. Caffe Nero sits in the landside departures concourse, open 24 hours a day, the most useful single venue at T4 if you arrive in the small hours or have an early-morning flight. Costa Coffee in the arrivals hall is also 24-hour, reopened with a refurbished fit-out and charging points in April 2025. Airside, the coffee and pastry market is covered by Pret A Manger on the central concourse and by the breakfast service at the sit-down venues. There is no dedicated independent bakery at T4; the chains and the breakfast menus at Co-Pilots, The Commission, Wild Olive, and Star Light cover the morning between them.

T4 has four venues worth picking out from the otherwise utility offer.

Co-Pilots Bar and Kitchen is the landside standout: Rhubarb Hospitality's 1950s aviation brasserie before security, with table service across a full breakfast-to-dinner menu. The only proper sit-down meal you can have at T4 without going airside, and useful if you are dropping someone off and want to share a meal first.

Wild Olive at Gate 7 is the airside standout if you want Mediterranean or Middle Eastern food rather than British pub fare. Mezze, halloumi, flatbreads, full breakfasts from 05:30. The most distinctive of the airside sit-down venues at T4.

Star Light at Gate 20 is the Wetherspoon pick: J D Wetherspoon's airside T4 pub, opened October 2023, with Wetherspoon pricing intact. The cheapest sit-down meal at T4 and the right call for a pre-flight pint and a plate of pub food without an airport markup.

The Commission, on the post-security central concourse, is the Drake and Morgan British bar and restaurant. The most contemporary of the airside options at T4, with a 175-seat room and a cocktail and wine list to match the food.

You can pre-order food at T4 for collection or delivery to your gate through the Heathrow app. The service is branded as Grab on Heathrow's own pages, the same name used across the airport; the underlying company changed its name to Servy in January 2021 but Heathrow still calls it Grab passenger-facing.

How it works at T4: download the Heathrow app or open Heathrow's pre-order page, pick a participating venue, choose your items, pay, and either collect at the counter or have the order delivered to your seat or gate. Star Light at Gate 20 is a named participating T4 venue; Comptoir Libanais at the far end is also a likely participant because the parent group has been part of the pre-order partnership since launch. The participating list moves over time, so Heathrow's pre-order page is the source of truth on the day.

Pre-order is the most reliable way to skip the queue at peak, particularly during the morning SkyTeam departure bank when Wild Olive and The Commission fill quickly. If you are short on time after a long wait at security, pre-ordering can be the difference between a meal and a sandwich at the gate.

Most T4 airside venues open from 05:30 to 06:00 and close from 21:00 to 22:00, broadly tracking first and last flight of the day. Wild Olive and Star Light open at 05:30, both airside. The Commission opens around 06:00 airside, with Pret following at 06:00. Landside the picture is different: Caffe Nero in the departures concourse and Costa in arrivals both run 24 hours a day.

T4's busiest service windows are the morning SkyTeam and Gulf departure bank between 07:00 and 11:00 (KLM, Air France, Qatar Airways, Etihad, Korean Air), and the evening bank from 18:00 to 22:00. Sit-down restaurants fill quickly in those windows. The midday 11:00 to 14:00 stretch is the quietest, useful if you have a flexible itinerary.

If you are connecting through Heathrow on a SkyTeam itinerary and your inbound lands at T4 with a long wait, the airside Flight Connections coach to T2 or T3 takes around 15 minutes one-way; the wider choice at T2 or T3 is usually a better use of a long layover than a meal at T4. The upgrade alternative to ordering from a venue is one of the Terminal 4 lounges, with food and drink included at paid or status entry. For a wider look at airside retail at T4, see Heathrow shopping.