Is Bavel Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Los Angeles, CA)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 10 Los Angeles, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Bavel is listed open on baveldtla.com, reviewed by our team on October 11, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: Bavel's own website returned a working reservation widget and current hours on a 2026-09-08 site check. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 10, Episode 7
- Address 500 Mateo Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
- Website baveldtla.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Bavel appeared in the episode "Key Ingredient," spotlighting the restaurant's Middle Eastern small-plates cooking. Bavel is a restaurant in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles, and according to the restaurant's own website, it focuses on the food of the greater Middle East. A site check of baveldtla.com on 2026-09-08 found the page live and returning current reservation availability through an OpenTable-linked booking widget, with hours listed for Sunday service from 5pm to 11pm. The same site check found copyright text dated 2023 rather than the current year, so the copyright line alone does not establish recent activity, but the working reservation system and posted hours indicate the restaurant continues to take bookings. No second independent source was checked for this record, so the restaurant's current-open status rests on the business's own website alone.
The episode
Also in Season 10
Season 10: 65 of 90 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 6Cocoron
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Ep 6Honey Pig
Closed - Open
- Open
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Ep 7Maypop
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Ep 7Scarlett Begonia
Open -
Ep 7The Butcher Shop
Closed - Open
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Sources we checked
- baveldtla.com https://baveldtla.com
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Record btiea-0767 · checked by Cal Marchetti.