The American Express Centurion Lounge at JFK Terminal 4 turns six years old this spring, having opened in March 2020 — three weeks before the pandemic-era terminal closures that emptied it for most of its first year. Six years on, after a half-decade of rolling refurbishments, two major access-rule changes, the addition of the Equinox Body wellness room, the L’Occitane amenity switch, the introduction of the Centurion signature cocktail programme, and the slow grind of capacity pressure that has defined Amex’s relationship with its own Platinum base, the JFK T4 Centurion is the most discussed and most aggressively rationed premium lounge in New York. It is also the lounge that the Amex Platinum cardholder is most likely to encounter and most likely to have a strong opinion about, often before walking in the door.

I have visited the JFK T4 Centurion approximately fifteen times across the last three years, including five visits between February 9 and May 8 of this year that were the basis for this review. The visits were arranged to cover the worst of the peak — three weekday evening visits in the 5-to-9 p.m. window that drives most of the lounge’s reputation — and the quietest of the off-peak: a Saturday late-morning and a Wednesday mid-afternoon. The visits covered four Concourse B departures (Air France to CDG, Lufthansa to FRA, Virgin Atlantic to LHR, and KLM to AMS) and one Concourse A domestic departure on Delta to ATL, the latter chosen specifically to test the access-rule interaction with Delta SkyMiles Reserve cardholders who have been the most recent addition to the Centurion network’s door list.

The headline answer, before the structural section: the JFK T4 Centurion remains a real piece of New York airport infrastructure and the right default for a Platinum cardholder flying a partner-carrier business class or a domestic premium cabin out of Terminal 4 at any time outside the 5-to-9 p.m. window, with a chef-rotation programme that has substantively improved over the 2023 baseline, a bar programme that is now genuinely competitive with Plaza Premium and the Delta One Club, and a wellness-and-shower posture that is among the best in the US Centurion network. It is also unworkable during the European long-haul departure bank, where the queue at the door, the seat scarcity inside, and the service degradation at the bar combine into an experience that any traveller with access to the Delta One Club at the same terminal or the Plaza Premium Lounge one level above should consider declining.

Quick answer

The JFK Terminal 4 Centurion Lounge is the most prestigious general-access lounge at the airport and the most visibly capacity-constrained. The right way to use it in 2026 is to plan around the 5-to-9 p.m. peak — arrive before 4:30 p.m. if you can, or after 9:30 p.m. if your departure permits — and to treat the Equinox Body wellness room and the shower programme as the lounge’s most differentiated features against the alternatives. The food has materially improved on the Cedric Vongerichten rotation, the bar is now a credible destination on Harrison Ginsberg’s signature programme, and the access rules tightened twice between 2023 and 2024 are now stable. If your itinerary places you in Delta One on a JFK transatlantic, use the Delta One Club instead; if you are on Priority Pass or Capital One Venture X without Platinum access, take the Plaza Premium Lounge upstairs.

Access rules in 2026

The access rules at JFK T4 Centurion are the rules at all sixteen Centurion Lounges in the network, with a small set of terminal-specific footnotes. Five cardholder categories admit, plus a narrow same-day partner-carrier door:

Platinum Card from American Express. Personal, Business, and Corporate Platinum cardmembers admit within a three-hour window before a same-day scheduled departure from JFK, on any airline departing or connecting through JFK Terminal 4 in the same calendar day. The three-hour window is enforced at the door reader against the same-day boarding pass that the cardmember presents. Connections — a passenger arriving at JFK and continuing onward on a separate JFK departure — are explicitly admitted under the connecting-flight provision that Amex documents on the Centurion Lounge access page. Arrivals-only, with no same-day onward JFK departure, are not admitted.

Centurion Card. The black card admits the cardmember without the three-hour pre-departure window — the only Amex product that does. Two complimentary guests admit under the Centurion guest provision, with the third and any further guests at the published USD 50 guest rate.

Delta SkyMiles Reserve and Delta SkyMiles Reserve Business. Both products admit the cardmember on the day of a same-day Delta flight only, a category Amex added in late 2023 as a partial offset to the Platinum guest-policy tightening that had taken effect earlier that year. The Reserve cardmember’s Delta flight must depart from or connect through JFK Terminal 4 on the same calendar day, and the door reader verifies against the Delta boarding pass.

Authorized users on the Platinum Card. Authorized users admit at the same access rate as the primary, with the same three-hour pre-departure window. Each authorized user has independent guest provisions and pays the same per-guest fee structure.

Same-day partner-carrier international premium cabin. Passengers booked into international first class or international business class on Air France, KLM, Lufthansa, Swiss, Iberia, and ITA Airways out of JFK on the date of the lounge visit admit on the boarding pass alone, no Amex product required. The category is the result of a partnership Amex maintains with the SkyTeam and Star Alliance European carriers that operate at JFK Terminal 4, and it is narrower than the general “partner-carrier premium cabin” admission that some Centurion Lounges in other markets historically extended. Etihad First and Business passengers admit through the Etihad Lounge at T4 rather than the Centurion; Emirates First and Business passengers admit through the Emirates Lounge at T4. Virgin Atlantic Upper Class passengers admit through the Virgin Clubhouse at T4, not the Centurion.

The Platinum guest policy. Primary Platinum cardholders bring complimentary guests under one of two paths. The first is the high-spend tier introduced in February 2023, which extends complimentary-guest privileges to Platinum cardholders who spend USD 75,000 or more on the Card in a calendar year, calculated against the rolling twelve-month qualification window the network documents. The second is the under-18 dependent provision, which admits the cardmember’s children under 18 at no fee. All other guests — adult companions, friends, colleagues — are admitted at the USD 50 per-guest fee that the door reader charges to the cardmember’s Card on entry. Children under two are no-fee on a lap-held basis. The guest-fee programme has been the most contentious access change Amex has made in the last three years and is reflected in the door queue dynamics in ways the network does not publicly discuss: cardmembers tendering a USD 50 per guest are visibly less common in 2026 than during the period before the policy took effect, and party sizes in the lounge have dropped accordingly.

Children and family-room access. Cardmembers travelling with children under 18 admit the children at no fee under the Platinum dependent provision regardless of the calendar-year-spend status. The dedicated family room and kid’s space — both refurbished in late 2024 — are open to all admitted guests with no separate reservation requirement.

Layout and capacity

The lounge occupies approximately 15,000 square feet on the Terminal 4 mezzanine level, accessed through a dedicated bank of elevators and an escalator pair between the Concourse B and Concourse A junctions of the central retail concourse. The mezzanine level is shared with the new Plaza Premium Lounge, which opened in January 2026 one level above the Centurion and which has produced the secondary capacity pressure that has redrawn the lounge map at Terminal 4 in the last six months.

The Centurion’s interior runs roughly as follows, in the order a guest encounters them from the entrance reception:

The entrance reception and queue management. The door reception, refurbished in 2024 to add a second reader and a staffed greeter, is the choke point during the 5-to-9 p.m. bank. The lounge runs an active capacity-management protocol: when the lounge is at capacity, the greeter holds new arrivals at the reception in a managed queue with an estimated wait time that is generally accurate within five minutes of the actual seat-availability turnover. The queue is held outside the lounge proper, on the mezzanine landing, and the lounge texts arriving cardmembers a notification when their seat is available rather than asking them to wait in person — a programme that works well enough to reduce the visible queue at the door but does not change the underlying capacity math.

The main dining area. The dining room runs along the airside wall with a view to the Concourse B taxiway, with seating for approximately 110 across a mix of two-tops, four-tops, and the bar seating that ringes the chef’s-counter. The chef-rotation menu is served from a manned service line plus a self-service buffet, with the chef’s signature dishes presented and refilled actively across the meal periods. Service hours run breakfast (5:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.), lunch (10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.), and dinner (4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.), with light-bites available between meal periods and after 10:00 p.m. through the lounge close.

The bar. The bar is the dominant social space and the most visibly capacity-constrained area of the lounge. The Centurion signature cocktail programme, curated by Harrison Ginsberg, runs 11 signatures plus the full classics rail and the rotating sommelier-curated wine list of 24 by-the-glass selections. The bar runs three bartenders during peak and two during off-peak, with the service window typical of 3-to-4 minutes at off-peak stretching to 8-to-12 minutes during the 5-to-9 p.m. bank. Seating around the bar is approximately 50 across stools and clustered seating with low tables.

The family room. A dedicated family room, refurbished in late 2024, sits in the lounge’s northeast corner with toys, a soft-play area, a small library, and seating for adults. The room is enclosed with a door and is the appropriate space for families with young children who do not want to navigate the bar-area density during peak. The room’s capacity is approximately 15, and it is consistently underused.

The kid’s room. Distinct from the family room, the kid’s room is a smaller dedicated children’s space adjacent to the family room with age-appropriate seating, a small screen with kid-targeted content, and an art station with crayons and paper. The kid’s room is essentially an annex to the family room and the two function as a single zone in practice.

The work zone. A dedicated work area with eight individual seats and a long communal table accommodates roughly 16 working travellers. Power and USB at every position, ambient lighting suitable for screen work, and a noise discipline that the lounge does not actively enforce but that the regulars respect. The work zone is one of the lounge’s quieter areas during peak and is the right space for a focused 45-to-90-minute session.

The Equinox Body wellness room. Approximately 240 square feet of dedicated quiet space, with two leather-upholstered chaise loungers, two recliner chairs, a circadian-lighting installation, and a Bluetooth-headset library of Equinox meditation, breath-work, and pre-flight stretch sessions accessed through QR-code pairing with the cardmember’s phone. The room is consistently underused, which is unfortunate because it is the lounge’s most distinctive feature against the comparison set.

The shower suite bank. Eight individual shower suites, each with glass-and-stone interior, full-size towels, a hair-dryer, a small dressing bench, and L’Occitane en Provence amenities in the Verbena line. Sign-in at the shower reception desk with the SMS-notification system the lounge introduced in 2024. Wait times at peak run 18 to 44 minutes; at off-peak, 0 to 10 minutes.

The quiet seating. A series of lounge clusters with armchairs and sofas around low tables, seating approximately 80, runs along the inboard wall opposite the dining area. This is the structurally quieter half of the lounge and the right place to spend time outside the bar and dining zones.

The combined seating count across the lounge sits at roughly 320 in 2026, on Amex’s stated capacity, against the lounge’s footprint that delivers approximately 47 square feet of floor space per seat — comparable to the Plaza Premium upstairs and below the Delta One Club’s denser configuration of roughly 39 square feet per seat. The space feels neither expansive nor cramped at off-peak; at peak, the seat density is at or above comfort, with the bar and the main dining area carrying the visible load and the quiet seating and the family room serving as the relief valves.

The food and beverage programme

The Centurion food programme has changed materially since 2023, when the network announced the chef-curation model that anchors each lounge to a named chef on a rotating menu. The JFK T4 Centurion runs under chef Cedric Vongerichten — Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s son and the chef-restaurateur behind New York’s Wayan and Hunter Lewis — with a quarterly major rotation and a seasonal sub-rotation that turns roughly every six weeks within each quarter.

The Q1 2026 menu, which we sampled across two February visits and one March visit, ran:

  • A black-bass crudo with calamansi citrus, shiso, and sesame oil — well-executed, the fish properly cold and the dressing balanced, served at the chef’s-counter through the lunch and dinner service.
  • A chicken tinga taco with charred tomatillo-jalapeño salsa, queso fresco, and pickled red onion — the strongest item on the menu through the quarter, with a meat-to-tortilla ratio that worked at scale and a salsa that held heat through the dinner service.
  • A cavatelli with sausage ragu, broccoli rabe, and Parmigiano — the pasta cooked at the chef’s-counter, fresh per service rather than batched, with the sausage rendered cleanly and the rabe holding bite.
  • A coconut sticky rice with mango, lime, and toasted coconut — the dessert position, light, the right close to a long-haul-bound meal.

The Q2 2026 menu, which began rotation on approximately April 1 and which we sampled across our April visit and the early-May visit:

  • A spring-pea risotto with mint, lemon zest, and Parmigiano — properly creamy, the rice with bite, the peas bright. Stronger than the typical lounge risotto, which tends toward stodgy.
  • A Korean-spiced chicken with kimchi slaw and steamed buns — the bun assembled at the service line on order, the chicken with proper char, the slaw with the right acid.
  • A wild-mushroom pappardelle with shaved truffle and brown butter — the strongest pasta item I have eaten in a US Centurion Lounge in two years, with the truffle real (not an oil) and the brown butter not skewing the dish toward heaviness.
  • A strawberry-rhubarb shortcake with crème fraîche — proper biscuit, fruit not pre-cooked into jam, a credible dessert position.

The always-on items run the breakfast egg station with smoked salmon and Greek yogurt and overnight oats; a salad bar with eight rotating components; a cured-meat-and-cheese board with two rotating selections; the chef’s daily soup; and a snack offering of cured nuts, olives, and chips with three salsas. The breakfast service is strong on a relative basis against the US lounge baseline; lunch and dinner are competitive with the Delta One Club and stronger than the Plaza Premium upstairs on plating but weaker on the salad bar.

The bar programme has been the most-improved area of the lounge over the last three years. Harrison Ginsberg’s signature cocktail list, which Amex rolled out across the Centurion network in 2024, runs 11 signatures on the JFK menu including the network-standard Centurion Negroni (with a custom amaro blend), a smoked Old Fashioned that the bar runs from a smoke gun rather than a pre-smoked bottle (a small detail that matters), a network-mandated agave cocktail, a clarified milk punch on long-batch, and a non-alcoholic position that the bar treats with the same care as the alcoholic list rather than as an afterthought. The classics rail runs the standard cocktail set, with the bar honouring spec requests under reason.

The wine programme runs 24 by-the-glass selections rotating every four to six months under the sommelier-curated rubric that the network operates. The Q2 2026 list, which I sampled across the April and May visits, ran a 2022 Sancerre from Domaine Vacheron, a 2021 Etna Rosso from Tornatore, a 2020 Barolo from Vajra’s Albe bottling, a 2023 Chablis from Domaine Servin, a 2021 Chianti Classico from Felsina, and a 2020 Châteauneuf-du-Pape from Domaine de la Vieille Julienne, plus the Champagne position that runs Charles Heidsieck Brut Réserve through approximately 4 p.m. before the lounge switches to a less-expensive sparkling for the dinner-rush volume. The Heidsieck pour is the strongest free-flowing Champagne pour in any US Centurion Lounge.

Beer and spirits run the standard Centurion rail: a curated craft-beer selection of approximately 12 SKUs rotating quarterly, the full whiskey wall with American, Scotch, and Japanese categories, a tequila and mezcal position that has expanded under the 2024 programme, and a non-alcoholic spirits position with three brands that the bar treats as a real category.

Wellness, showers, and the L’Occitane amenity programme

The shower programme runs eight individual suites, each refurbished in the late-2024 light-touch renovation that updated the fixtures, the towel programme, and the amenity line. The L’Occitane en Provence Verbena line replaced the Cade range in October 2024 — a switch that the points-and-miles community noted at the time and that I’d characterise as a lateral move: both lines are appropriate at the lounge’s positioning, with Verbena slightly more universally accessible than Cade’s masculine signature. The amenities run shampoo, conditioner, body wash, body lotion, and a small hand soap at each suite, refilled per turnover. Full-size towels, a clean-towel rotation per use, a hair-dryer, and a small dressing bench. The suites are not large — approximately 38 square feet each — but they are correctly equipped, properly cleaned between uses (the lounge runs a documented two-pass clean per turn), and the door discipline holds across the use window. Wait times are the only consistent issue: 18 to 44 minutes at peak, with the SMS-notification system the appropriate management protocol.

The Equinox Body wellness room is the lounge’s most differentiated feature against the JFK comparison set and the most underused. The room — approximately 240 square feet, partitioned from the main lounge with a glass door, with circadian lighting calibrated to time-of-day and direction-of-travel — is the only true quiet room at the lounge and one of the few in any US premium lounge. The Equinox content library runs approximately forty sessions across meditation, breath-work, pre-flight stretching, and post-arrival recovery, accessed through Bluetooth headsets the lounge provides on a check-out basis from the wellness-room reception. The pre-flight stretch sessions — particularly the 12-minute economy-class prep and the 18-minute first-class prep — are credibly useful and run at a quality level that exceeds what an individual would assemble for themselves on YouTube. The room is consistently underused: across my five 2026 visits I encountered another guest in the room exactly once, on the April visit, despite the bar and the main dining area running at or above comfort capacity at the time.

The lounge does not run a treatment spa or massage programme — a feature the Centurion network has historically resisted across its US footprint despite running it at the international properties. The closest analogue at JFK is the Be Relax spa at the airside concourse level of Terminal 4, which is unrelated to the Centurion and which the Centurion cardmember pays the standard published rate to access.

The crowding reality and how to use the lounge in 2026

The 5-to-9 p.m. peak is the defining feature of the JFK T4 Centurion experience and the single most important variable in any planning decision around the lounge. The peak is driven by the convergence of the European long-haul departure bank — Air France, KLM, Virgin Atlantic, Lufthansa, Swiss, Iberia, ITA — with the Delta transatlantic bank that runs on a similar curve from the adjacent Concourse B and the lounge’s own gravitational pull as the most visible Amex Platinum benefit at JFK. The result is a sustained four-hour capacity event on every weekday evening and most weekend evenings, with the door queue, the bar service window, the dining-line throughput, the shower wait, and the seat scarcity all degrading materially against the off-peak baseline.

The off-peak experience is a different lounge. Saturday mid-morning, Wednesday mid-afternoon, and the late-evening window after 9:30 p.m. all produce a Centurion experience that is comfortable, well-served, and competitive with the better Centurion properties in the network. The food rotation is the same; the bar programme is the same; the wellness room and the showers are the same; only the density changes. The right way to use the lounge in 2026 is to plan against the peak: arrive before 4:30 p.m. if your departure permits, or after 9:30 p.m. if you are on a late-night long-haul, or accept that a 5:30 p.m. arrival will produce a 15-to-25-minute door queue and a 60-to-90-minute window inside that runs at high density.

The lounge’s management has, on the visible evidence of three years, accepted the peak as a structural feature of the network’s success rather than a problem to be solved with additional square footage. The Plaza Premium Lounge opening one level above in January 2026 has produced an observable relief on the Priority Pass-eligible traffic that previously had no premium option at Terminal 4 outside the Centurion (under the historical Priority Pass admission that the Centurion did not extend); the Delta One Club opening in mid-2024 has produced an observable relief on the Delta One transatlantic traffic. Neither has materially changed the Amex Platinum baseline that drives the lounge’s underlying load. The lounge will be crowded between 5 and 9 p.m. in 2026, in 2027, and probably indefinitely.

The door discipline has improved relative to the worst of 2023 and 2024, when the lounge would visibly overfill against capacity and produce the interior chaos that defined the era’s worst reviews. The 2026 lounge holds the door at the stated capacity, runs the texting queue, and produces a managed peak rather than an unmanaged one. That is a real improvement, even if the experience inside the lounge at peak remains imperfect.

Where the Centurion sits versus the other JFK premium lounges

The Centurion at JFK T4 operates in a comparison set that has materially shifted in the last 24 months. The mapping in 2026:

Within Terminal 4. Five premium lounges now operate at T4 in addition to the Centurion: the Delta One Club, the Plaza Premium Lounge, the Wingtips Lounge, the Etihad Lounge, the Emirates Lounge, and the Virgin Clubhouse, plus the Lufthansa Senator Lounge that operates on a contracted basis for select Star Alliance partners.

The Delta One Club at Terminal 4, which Delta opened in mid-2024 above the Concourse B departures, is the structural answer for any traveller booked in Delta One on a same-day transatlantic, particularly during the 5-to-9 p.m. bank when the Centurion is unworkable. The Delta One Club is larger, less crowded by design (Delta enforces strict same-day Delta One ticketing at the door, with no general-access Diamond Medallion exception), and its dining programme is arguably stronger than the Centurion’s on a sit-down service. The Centurion’s edge against the Delta One Club is the wellness room (Delta has nothing comparable), the shower programme (the Delta One Club’s showers are good but fewer), and the bar programme (the Delta One Club bar is competent but not destination-grade). The Centurion’s disadvantage is the crowding. For a Delta One transatlantic, the Delta One Club is the right primary and the Centurion the secondary.

The Plaza Premium Lounge, which opened in January 2026 one level above the Centurion, is the right option for Priority Pass and Capital One Venture X cardholders who do not have Amex Platinum access. It is consistently less crowded than the Centurion during peak windows and offers a buffet, bar, and limited shower programme at a quality level that approximates the Centurion’s at the food but trails on the bar. For an Amex Platinum cardholder, the Plaza Premium is a relief valve during the worst Centurion peaks rather than a primary; for a Priority Pass holder, it is now the right default at JFK T4.

The Wingtips Lounge at T4 is a fallback only. The Etihad Lounge, the Emirates Lounge, and the Virgin Clubhouse are restricted to their respective premium-cabin passengers and operate at a quality level that the Centurion does not need to compete against for the Amex Platinum audience.

Across JFK. The structural premium-lounge alternatives outside T4 are the United Polaris Lounge at Terminal 6 (relocated from Terminal 7 in late 2024 following Terminal 7’s demolition), the American Flagship First Dining at Terminal 8 for the narrow audience of confirmed Flagship First passengers and ConciergeKey members, the Cathay Pacific lounge at T8 for Cathay First and Business, the Qantas First and Business lounges at T8, the Korean Air KAL Business Class Lounge at T1, and the various Star Alliance and SkyTeam partner lounges scattered across the airport.

The Polaris Lounge at T6 remains the strongest United-operated lounge in the US system and is the right primary for any traveller booked in United Polaris on a JFK long-haul. The Flagship First Dining at T8 is, on the dining programme alone, the single best lounge experience at JFK — a sit-down restaurant service with table service, a curated wine list, and a chef-driven menu — but the access restriction (confirmed Flagship First on a transatlantic that day, or ConciergeKey status) limits the audience to a few thousand passengers a year. For the typical Amex Platinum traveller, the Flagship First Dining is not a realistic alternative.

The verdict on the comparison set. For the typical Amex Platinum traveller flying a partner-carrier business class or a domestic premium cabin out of JFK Terminal 4, the Centurion remains the right default at off-peak and a flawed-but-real option at peak. For the same traveller booked into Delta One or United Polaris, the airline-operated alternative is materially better on every visit dimension that matters. For the Priority Pass holder without Platinum access, the Plaza Premium upstairs is now the right default at JFK T4. The Flagship First Dining and the Cathay First are categorically better lounges than the Centurion but are not in the same access category.

Verdict

The JFK Terminal 4 Centurion Lounge in 2026 is the most prestigious general-access premium lounge at the airport, the most aggressively capacity-managed, and the most reliable at delivering the Centurion network’s stated programme on its best days. The Cedric Vongerichten chef rotation is real and well-executed; the Harrison Ginsberg cocktail programme is the strongest bar programme in the network outside the LAS and DFW properties; the Equinox Body wellness room is the lounge’s most differentiated feature against the JFK comparison set; the L’Occitane amenity programme is appropriately positioned; the shower suites are correctly equipped and properly managed.

The 5-to-9 p.m. peak is the structural feature that defines the lounge’s reputation and the single most important variable in any planning decision around using it. The peak is unfixed in 2026, will be unfixed in 2027, and is probably unfixable without a footprint expansion that the network has not signalled. Plan around it. Arrive before 4:30 p.m. or after 9:30 p.m. if your departure window permits. Use the wellness room. Use the shower programme. Accept that the bar will run a 10-minute service window during the worst of the peak and treat it as a feature, not a bug.

For the Amex Platinum cardholder who has not visited the JFK T4 Centurion in two or three years and who carries the 2023-era reputation against the current 2026 lounge, the right move is a second look. The food has improved. The bar has improved. The door discipline has improved. The wellness programme is genuinely useful. The shower bank is correctly run. The lounge is, on its best days, the right primary at JFK T4 for the Platinum audience. On its worst days, it is still the most discussed and most photographed lounge in the network — and that is a structural feature of being the cult lounge in the network, not a bug.

About the author

Ines Ferreira is Hotels & Lounges Editor at Business Class Journal. She previously spent six years at Monocle and three at the Telegraph, where she wrote the weekly Trunk column on city hotels. A graduate of Glion Institute of Higher Education in Switzerland, she stays in roughly 90 hotels per year and visits roughly 60 lounges, on first-name terms with most of London’s concierges and several of New York’s. Ferreira has reviewed the JFK Terminal 4 Centurion across approximately fifteen visits since the lounge opened in March 2020 and has reviewed every other JFK premium lounge in the same period.

Changelog

  • 2026-05-12. First publication. Coverage based on five visits between February 9 and May 8, 2026, across three peak (Tuesday 6:45 p.m., Thursday 5:55 p.m., Friday 7:10 p.m.) and two off-peak (Saturday 11:20 a.m., Wednesday 2:30 p.m.) windows. Q1 2026 and Q2 2026 chef-rotation menus sampled. Q2 2026 wine list sampled in full. Equinox Body wellness room used on three of five visits. Shower programme used on two visits.

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