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What Happened to Benny's Seafood Restaurant After Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 1 Miami, Florida

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Benny's Seafood Restaurant has closed — confirmed via dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com, November 18, 2025.

What the source shows: A Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives fan site (updated 2025-11-18) and Yelp (updated 2026-05, marked CLOSED) agree that Benny's Seafood Restaurant at 2500 SW 107th Ave is no longer operating, and Foursquare separately lists the location as no longer open. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate? 2 episodes

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 1, Episode 1

The Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network) featured Benny's Seafood in the show's 'Totally Fried' episode (Season 1, Episode 1), highlighting a fried dish from the South Miami, Florida restaurant's Puerto Rican menu. Benny's Seafood Restaurant was established in 1994 and became known for mofongo and other Puerto Rican seafood, beef, pork, and chicken dishes, according to Flavortown USA's restaurant-locations reference.

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 3, Episode 12 Aired

On Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives episode 'In the Family' (aired 2008-06-30), Guy Fieri visited Benny's Seafood Restaurant, a Puerto Rican restaurant in the South Miami area known for mofongo, marinated conch salad, fried shrimp, and dishes like bistec encebollado and lobster bisque. The restaurant, at 2500 SW 107th Ave, paired seafood with homestyle Puerto Rican cooking, including a mofongo one cook described on a fan site as based on a family recipe. A Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives fan site reported on 2025-11-18 that the restaurant's listing was marked permanently closed.

Yelp's listing for the restaurant, updated 2026-05, also shows it as closed, and Foursquare separately lists the location as no longer open. Fan-site reviewers recalled visiting the restaurant as recently as 2012, while a 2017 visitor reported being unable to locate it at all.

The episodes Best Thing I Ever Ate

Episode 1
Air date not confirmed
Title: Totally Fried · What was featured: A fried Puerto Rican seafood dish featured in the 'Totally Fried' episode
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 3, Episode 12
Aired
Title: In the Family · What was featured: mofongo, marinated conch salad, fried shrimp, Puerto Rican homestyle dishes

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. flavortownusa.com https://www.flavortownusa.com/locations/25/bennys-seafood-closed
  2. dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com https://www.dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com/bennys-seafood-restaurant-florida.html
  3. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/bennys-seafood-restaurant-miami-3
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Record ddd-0120 · checked by Cal Marchetti.