Is Buddakan Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (New York, NY)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 6 New York, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, Buddakan is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 15, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: Direct check of the actual New York Buddakan location (75 9th Ave, Chelsea) rather than the Philadelphia sister site: Yelp's listing was updated September 2026 and shows the restaurant actively taking reviews; OpenTable and Resy also list it as currently bookable. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 6, Episode 6
- Address 75 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10011
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
A segment of the 'Bird Is The Word' episode featured Buddakan, the Pan-Asian fusion restaurant at 75 9th Avenue in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. According to Wikipedia, Stephen Starr's STARR Restaurants group opened the first Buddakan location in Philadelphia in 1998 and later added the New York City location; a separate Buddakan Atlantic City location closed in October 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Philly Voice. STARR Restaurants' brand site, buddakan.com, last modified 2026-09-02, showed the Philadelphia location running a dated STARR Restaurant Week menu served September 7 to 18, 2026, with current hours, contact information, and social media links, according to the site. Our research did not reach a New York-specific 2026-dated page, so this record's open status rests on brand-level evidence rather than a location-specific source.
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Sources we checked
- buddakan.com https://buddakan.com/
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddakan
- apnews.com https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-philadelphia-atlantic-city-archive-restaurants-614e8eb506382e033af52e4120ea980a
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Record btiea-0543 · checked by Cal Marchetti.