What Happened to Anchor & Hope After Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 1 San Francisco, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Anchor & Hope has closed — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026.
What the source shows: Google Places marks Anchor & Hope's business status as permanently closed and Yelp's listing, updated June 2026, also shows it closed. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 1, Episode 10
- Address 83 Minna St, San Francisco, CA 94105
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Best Thing I Ever Ate highlighted Anchor & Hope's seafood cooking in the 'Filled With Envy' episode, calling out a dish from the San Francisco fish house among plates worth envying. Anchor & Hope was an oyster bar and seafood restaurant that opened in 2008 from restaurateurs Steven and Mitchell Rosenthal, the team behind Town Hall and Salt House, set inside a renovated century-old brick building at 83 Minna St in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. Yelp's listing for Anchor & Hope, updated in June 2026, marks the business 'CLOSED.'
Google Places, checked 2026-09-07, also lists the business status as permanently closed. No announcement of a reopening, relocation, or new operator at the Minna Street address has surfaced. The building that once housed the restaurant's dining room and raw bar no longer appears under the Anchor & Hope name in current listings.
The episode
Also in Season 1
Season 1: 57 of 88 still open · 4 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 9Buddakan
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Ep 10Bolete
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Ep 10Bouchon
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Ep 10Chinois on Main
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Ep 10Crustacean
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Ep 10Frontera Grill
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Ep 10I Trulli
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Ep 10Olives, W Hotel
Closed
Nearest open restaurants
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Best Thing I Ever Ate
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Blue Bottle Coffee at the SFMOMA Rooftop Sculpture Garden
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E&O Trading Company (E&O Kitchen and Bar)
Best Thing I Ever Ate
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Food Paradise
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Record btiea-0087 · checked by Cal Marchetti.