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What Happened to APL Restaurant After Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11 Los Angeles, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, APL Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, May 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's page for the restaurant, last updated May 2026, carries a closed-business marker; Gayot's directory entry for the restaurant separately carries a closed-business marker as well. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network) featured the restaurant in its Low and Slow episode (S11E6). APL Restaurant was chef Adam Perry Lang's 143-seat steakhouse at 1680 Vine Street, in the Taft Building at Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles, according to Time Out. Yelp's page for the business, last updated May 2026, carries a closed-business marker and shows 498 photos and 321 reviews with no current hours listed. Gayot's directory entry for the restaurant separately carries a closed-business marker. Lang continues to operate a separate restaurant, APL Barbecue, at a Venice, California address, but no source found describes a reopening of the Vine Street steakhouse itself, and this record is scored on that Vine Street address only.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11

Episode 6
Air date not confirmed
Title: Low and Slow · What was featured: the steakhouse's contemporary prime-steak menu at Hollywood and Vine

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/apl-los-angeles-2
  2. gayot.com https://www.gayot.com/restaurants/apl-restaurant-los-angeles-ca-90028_2la180403.html
  3. timeout.com https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/restaurants/apl-restaurant
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