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What Happened to Border Grill After Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 8 Los Angeles, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Border Grill has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing for the Downtown LA Border Grill, updated August 2026, marks the location permanently closed, and the company's own locations page, checked September 2026, no longer lists a Figueroa Street address. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

"The Best Thing I Ever Ate" (Food Network) featured Border Grill in its "Big Cheese" episode (S8E9), spotlighting the restaurant's modern Mexican menu. Border Grill is a modern Mexican restaurant brand founded by chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, with a history of Los Angeles-area locations, according to the company's own website. According to Yelp, the Border Grill location at 445 South Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles was marked permanently closed on a listing updated in August 2026. Border Grill's own locations page, checked September 2026, lists an active restaurant at Los Angeles International Airport's Tom Bradley International Terminal and announces a new Hollywood Burbank Airport location opening in October 2026, without listing the Figueroa Street address, and also lists ongoing Border Grill locations in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to the same company page.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 8

Episode 9
Air date not confirmed
Title: Big Cheese · What was featured: Modern Mexican dishes at the L.A. location, part of the 'Big Cheese' episode

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/border-grill-downtown-la-los-angeles
  2. bordergrill.com https://www.bordergrill.com/locations/
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