The beautiful new Delta One Lounge at New York (JFK), Delta’s first premium cabin lounge, opens on June 26, 2024 and features amenities on par with American Airlines Flagship Lounges and United Airlines Polaris Lounges. Let’s take a look at the new JFK lounge, including food and beverage menus.
Stunning New Delta One Lounge New York JFK
Delta has teased a new lounge concept it calls Delta One Lounge for over a year, but the New York JFK lounge is finally complete (with Delta One Lounges in Boston and Los Angeles to follow later this year).
The lounge will be open 4:30 am to 11:00 pm daily and is located in Terminal 4, between Concourse A and Concourse B. It is 39,707 square feet, with seating for 515 guests.
I’ve outlined access rules here.
Here are some highlights of the new lounge:
- Food & Beverage
- The lounge features a 140-seat brasserie-style restaurant delivering a three-course meal service
- Restaurant Associates and Union Square Events (a Danny Meyer concept) have collaborated to create a special menu for the Delta One Lounge, with dishes such as hamachi crudo, steak tartare, and lasagna bolognese (full menu below)
- The walk-up Market and Bakery will offer guests a quicker but still customized meal service
- Beverage cart service, similar to what occurs on a flight, will allow passengers to enjoy beverages without getting up from their seat
- Wellness Area
- Niner relaxation pods with full-body massage chairs and nap chairs, treatments from Grown-Alchemist certified therapists, and more
- These pods can be reserved
- A “Serenity Lounge” aims to provide a quiet, tranquil space designed for pre-flight peace of mind
- Specialty lamp lighting in the Serenity Lounge mimics the light colors affecting the body’s circadian rhythms, helping your body get acclimated to the time zone to which you will be flying
- A Rejuvenation Bar offers non-alcoholic beverages and fruit and herb-infused waters and juices
- Niner relaxation pods with full-body massage chairs and nap chairs, treatments from Grown-Alchemist certified therapists, and more
- Shower Suites
- Eight shower suites are available, featuring towels, bathrobes and slippers, and Grown Alchemist products, and more
- A valet attendant will be standing by to steam clothes or shine shoes and return them while you shower
- Other Amenities
- Enjoy views of the airfield from a terrace area, including regional, seasonally updated plants
- This “lush outdoor oasis is designed to stimulate the senses (while calming the nervous system)” and will be open daily, regardless of weather
- Guests in do-not-disturb mode can take care of business in one of eight individual soundproof booths
- Enjoy views of the airfield from a terrace area, including regional, seasonally updated plants
And some pictures:
Delta One Lounge New York JFK Food + Beverage Menus
As mentioned above, food is complimentary, including at the sit-down restaurant:
Menu options from other parts of the lounge include custom-made salads and sandwiches, avocado toast, a fresh bakery, soup, small plates, main courses like roasted salmon or chicken Milanese, smoothies, and deserts:
While there will be a wide range of alcoholic beverages available on a complimentary basis, Delta will charge for “top-shelf” liquor.
It is an interesting choice to charge for select beverages since neither American nor United charges for any drinks in their premium lounges.
CONCLUSION
The new Delta Lounge at New York JFK looks beautiful and I cannot wait to visit it. The food and drink selection looks excellent, though I am surprised that Delta has chosen to charge for some alcoholic beverages. The access rules are more generous than I expected and yet just tight enough that there should not be overcrowding.
Have you visited the Delta One Lounge at JFK? What did you think of the food and beverage menus?
all image courtesy of Delta
It is beyond tacky to charge for wine. And the “free” wine is pretty low-end for someone buying a $5,000 Delta One ticket or spending $75,000 to $100,000 per year for Delta 360 status.
Agreed. $35 for a glass of Johnny Walker is a bit of a travesty.
Otherwise, from the pics, it looks like the lounge is rather competitive with Polaris lounges.
Right in line with SkyClubs still having coke and sprite at the bar so you can be shamed into giving $1 to the bartender
I learned from my German friends to mix the table red wine with Coca Cola.
I picked that habit up in Luxembourg of all places
I’m afraid I agree. This is not class-leading.
Is it customary, or expected, to tip on food service?
I certainly hope not…
I haven’t visited the Delta One Lounge, but I did visit the Delta Lounge at SXSW earlier this year (along with an intimate reception for certain AUS based flyers), and this was basically the menu there, but nothing had an additional charge. Vibes at the SXSW lounge we’re pretty cool. I’m looking forward to visiting this at JFK on an AF 50K J ticket.
Clearly, Delta has decided it can only pay for the enhanced food offering and ala carte table service by charging for alcohol. Alcohol, especially wine, offers probably the highest F&B profit margin outside a breakfast buffet.
If I’m being honest, outside of a fancier decor and the ala carte dining, this doesn’t look any different than the nicest Sky Clubs in the system. It will be interesting to see if standard Sky Club lounges are downgraded, especially as more Delta One lounges come online.
I still predict we’ll see some sort of move toward making dinner on the short BOS and JFK flights to Europe opt-in, as it’s in everyone’s interest — Delta and the passengers — to have Delta One passengers eat in the lounge and skip the onboard meal service on flights of 5 1/2 to 6 1/2 hours.
I don’t know anything about alcoholic beverages. How exactly does just the complimentary drink selection in the One lounge compare to say a Polaris lounge? Cuz I can’t imagine UA is giving away $450-a-bottle glasses of wine no matter how much you’re paying for the ticket.
Delta is charging for wine that American offers for free in the Flagship lounge.
Different businesses charge different prices as does your company. What’s the problem?
Am I the only one who thinks this is just “pretty good”?
Mostly because regular SkyClubs are so good. Comparing this to the new Boston or New York clubs, this isn’t a whole new world or anything. Various other business class lounges from international carriers outdo this one.
It’s nice, but it’s just like a half-step up, not next level.
Outside the phone booths or the gimmick like an extra monitor, which I’m sure they will never have in stock, the only real differences are business-class-only and ala carte dining.
I would wager the potential of less crowding is worth more than anything here; case in point, I walked two laps around ATL’s Centurion lounge before I could find a table and a seat, the former I had to clean because the guy before just left. And 1hr+ shower queue that I never got to take.