Is Bongo Room Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Chicago, IL)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, All-Star Chicago, Illinois
Current status
As of October 2026, Bongo Room is listed open on thebongoroom.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: The restaurant's own website (thebongoroom.com) for the Wicker Park (1470 N. Milwaukee) location shows a working online-ordering link and address/phone matching our records, though the page carries no explicit current-year text. How we decide a status →
- Episode All-Star, Episode 7
- Address 1470 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622
- Website thebongoroom.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
All-Star Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network) highlighted a breakfast dish at The Bongo Room in its 'Unbeatable Breakfast' episode. The Bongo Room is a breakfast-and-brunch restaurant in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, at 1470 N. Milwaukee Ave., known for dishes such as its Chocolate Tower French Toast. The restaurant's own website, thebongoroom.com, lists the Wicker Park address and phone number matching the evidence on file and includes a working online-ordering link. The Bongo Room brand operates other Chicago locations as well; a separate South Loop address (1152 S. Wabash Ave.) appears on a Yelp listing marked closed, but that is a different location from the Wicker Park restaurant referenced here. Nothing found in this search points to a closure, change of ownership, or move for the Wicker Park location.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- thebongoroom.com https://www.thebongoroom.com/
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Record btiea-0952 · checked by Cal Marchetti.