What Happened to Bo Brooks Restaurant After Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11, Episode 8

"Best Thing I Ever Ate" episode "On the Waterfront" spotlighted Bo Brooks' steamed blue crabs and crab cakes at its Canton waterfront location on Lighthouse Point. The Hannan family opened the original Bo Brooks on Belair Road in 1965 before relocating the crab house to Boston Street and later to its Canton pier. WMAR2News reported on 2023-01-21 that the restaurant had closed, with owner Chris Hannan describing declining crab-house traffic and rising prices, and its contents put up for auction. The same report noted the Hannan family also runs the Red Star in Fells Point, McGarvey's in Annapolis, and an MBB catering business in Annapolis. The waterfront site is now run by Oasis Marina, according to WMAR2News. A Yelp business listing updated 2026-06 continues to mark Bo Brooks as permanently closed.

Best Thing I Ever Ate, All-Star, Episode 1

Bo Brooks Restaurant, a seafood spot in Baltimore's Canton neighborhood, was featured for its Seafood Club Sandwich, one of the restaurant's signature dishes. The restaurant's own Facebook post described the dish as 'our Seafood Club Sandwich' in connection with a Best Thing I Ever Ate segment, and TheBestThingIEverAte.com lists Bo Brooks among the restaurants tied to the All-Star Best Thing I Ever Ate 'Sensational Sandwiches' episode. The sandwich pairs the restaurant's seafood focus with a classic club-sandwich build, reflecting Bo Brooks' long-standing identity as a Baltimore crab-and-seafood house.

Food Paradise, Season 7, Episode 6

Food Paradise's 'Local Legends' episode featured Bo Brooks, the Baltimore institution known for Maryland blue crabs and other seafood staples like crab cakes and steamed shrimp. The business traces to the mid-1960s, when it first opened on Belair Road in northeast Baltimore, before relocating over the following decades to the city's Canton waterfront, most recently operating as Bo Brooks Crabhouse & Tiki Bar at Lighthouse Point on the Baltimore harbor. A Yelp listing for that Lighthouse Point location, updated June 2026, now marks the restaurant permanently closed.

The original Belair Road building associated with this episode's segment is no longer connected to the operating business, which by 2026 had already relocated and then closed under the same name and ownership lineage. This appearance is logged against the restaurant's existing database record rather than as a new listing, since it is the same continuously operating business.