Is Avec Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Chicago, IL)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3 Chicago, Illinois
Current status
As of October 2026, Avec is listed open on avecrestaurant.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: The business's website, checked 2026-09-08, returned HTTP 200 with working reservation and to-go ordering links and a navigation menu listing three current locations, including West Loop. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 3, Episode 7
- Address 615 West Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 60661
- Website avecrestaurant.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Avec appeared on Best Thing I Ever Ate, season 3, episode 'In a Bowl,' in the segment devoted to bowl-style dishes. The restaurant serves Mediterranean-influenced food from a location on West Randolph Street in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood, according to OpenStreetMap/Photon geocoding compiled across the show. The business's own website, checked 2026-09-08, returned an HTTP 200 response titled 'avec | mediterranean restaurant in chicago, il,' with reservation and to-go ordering links and a navigation menu listing locations described as Avec West Loop, Avec River North, and a Highwood location marked 'coming soon.' Those ordering and reservation links, together with the multi-location navigation menu, reflect content the site was serving as of the September 2026 check. No news source or second independent listing was checked to corroborate the site's own information.
The episode
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Ep 7Cafe Fanny
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Sources we checked
- avecrestaurant.com https://www.avecrestaurant.com/
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Record btiea-0242 · checked by Cal Marchetti.