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What Happened to Butter Lane After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (New York, NY)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 New York, New York

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Butter Lane has closed — confirmed via evgrieve.com, August 2023.

What the source shows: A dated EV Grieve article documents the East Village shop's relocation to New Jersey, and a dated Yelp listing shows that relocated location has since closed too. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The episode featured Butter Lane's made-to-order cupcakes, finished with hand-piped frosting, plus the shop's hands-on baking classes and catering, at its East Village storefront on East Seventh Street. CourseHorse's listing for Butter Lane, found, describes cake-decorating and cupcake-baking classes offered at the shop, though without a current class schedule. EV Grieve reported on 2023-08 that Butter Lane was leaving its Seventh Street home for a new location inside the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey, winding down its East Village operations ahead of the move. A Yelp listing for the American Dream Mall location was updated 2025-12 and marks that location permanently closed as well. No source found shows Butter Lane currently operating at either its original East Village address or its later New Jersey location.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2

Episode 9
Air date not confirmed
Title: The Classics · What was featured: Butter Lane's made-to-order cupcakes and hands-on baking classes

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. evgrieve.com https://evgrieve.com/2023/08/butter-lane-leave-7th-street-for-new.html
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/butter-lane-east-rutherford-5
  3. coursehorse.com https://coursehorse.com/nyc/schools/cooking/butter-lane-1
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