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What Happened to Bandera After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Los Angeles, CA)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 1 Los Angeles, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Bandera has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 2026.

What the source shows: A Yelp listing for the Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles Bandera location, updated 2026-09, marks it permanently closed, corroborated by a customer review recalling the restaurant's live jazz music in the past tense. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The Best Thing I Ever Ate's pilot episode featured Bandera, credited in the episode to Los Angeles, California. The Bandera restaurant brand serves American cooking with a Southwestern flair, cooked over a wood-burning rotisserie and grill, according to a description of its Corona del Mar location. A Yelp listing for the Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles location, updated September 2026, marks that restaurant permanently closed, according to Yelp. A customer review on the same Yelp page recalled the location's live jazz music and noted the restaurant had closed, providing a second signal alongside the closed listing. A separate Bandera restaurant under the same name and ownership group remains open at 3201 East Pacific Coast Highway in Corona del Mar, California, according to Yelp and the restaurant's own website, banderarestaurants.com, both checked 2026-09-08 -- a different address from the Los Angeles location originally featured in the episode.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 1

Episode Pilot
Air date not confirmed
Title: Pilot · What was featured: Southwestern-flavored American cooking over a wood-burning grill

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/bandera-los-angeles-6
  2. banderarestaurants.com https://banderarestaurants.com/locations/coronadelmar/
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