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What Happened to Akasha After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Culver City, CA)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 Culver City, California Closed 2025

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Akasha has closed — confirmed via culvercityobserver.com, October 9, 2025.

What the source shows: The business's own site and a dated Culver City Observer article show the restaurant's dining room closed in October 2025 while catering and retail service continue. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The episode spotlighted Akasha's rustic Californian and New American cooking, built around seasonal produce and house-made, from-scratch preparations. Akasha opened as a chef-owned restaurant, bar, and marketplace in downtown Culver City, pairing a full dining room with a retail bakery counter. The restaurant's own site described the dining operation as an extension of nearly two decades of sourcing relationships built around AKASHA. The Culver City Observer reported on 2025-10-09 that Akasha would close its restaurant service, with October 5, 2025 as its final day of lunch and dinner.

A Yelp listing updated 2026-08 marks the Culver City restaurant permanently closed. Akasha's own site, checked 2026-09-08, shows the business continuing as a catering operation and retail shop stocking Akasha-at-Home frozen meals, wine, and beer, and now promotes a new venture, Travel by Akasha, described on the site as a full-service travel company.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2

Episode 8
Air date not confirmed
Title: Crunchy · What was featured: Akasha's rustic Californian, seasonal New American small plates and entrees

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. culvercityobserver.com https://www.culvercityobserver.com/story/2025/10/09/news/another-downtown-culver-city-rest-bites-the-dust-akasha-restaurant-to-close/15481.html
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/akasha-culver-city-2
  3. akasharestaurant.com https://www.akasharestaurant.com/
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