What Happened to Beatrice Inn After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (New York, NY)

"Best Thing I Ever Ate" (S8E4, "Picture Perfect") featured the Beatrice Inn, a West Village restaurant with a history dating to a 1920s speakeasy. According to Wikipedia's sourced history, the Beatrice Inn became an Italian restaurant in the 1950s, operated as a nightclub from 2006 until April 2009, when New York City's Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement closed it following neighbor noise complaints, and reopened as a Spanish tapas restaurant in 2010. Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter bought the business in 2012 and sold it to executive chef Angie Mar in August 2016; Mar reopened it that September, and The New York Times reviewed her Beatrice Inn favorably in October 2016. The restaurant was included in the Michelin Guide New York 2020. According to the same account, the Beatrice Inn closed in December 2020, and its official web domain, checked 2026-09-08, no longer resolves to restaurant content.