Is Cafe Habana Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (New York, NY)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 4 New York, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, Cafe Habana is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 7, 2026.
What the source shows: Cafe Habana's own website (active online ordering) and a Yelp listing updated September 2026 both show the Prince Street restaurant actively operating. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 12
- Address 17 Prince St, New York, NY 10012
- Website cafehabana.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
The episode 'On A Stick' featured Cafe Habana's grilled Mexican street corn, a cob-on-a-stick specialty rubbed with cotija cheese, mayonnaise, and chili powder. Cafe Habana is a Cuban-Mexican restaurant and bar that opened in 1998 in the Nolita neighborhood of Manhattan. According to cafehabana.com, checked 2026-09-07, the site listed an active online-ordering link for the Prince Street location and described the brand's expansion to other US cities and Japan. Yelp's listing for the Prince Street restaurant, updated September 2026, showed more than 3,300 reviews and continued current photos.
OpenTable's listing for the restaurant was also live, marked 'Updated 2026.' No closure, relocation, or ownership-change signals were found for the Prince Street address, and it continues to be listed as the original 1998 location on cafehabana.com's own locations page.
The episode
Also in Season 4
Season 4: 60 of 102 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 12Golden Deli
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Ep 12Mandarina
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Ep 12Minibar
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Ep 12Shake Shack
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Ep 12Yakitoria
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Ep 13Bar Boulud
Closed
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Sources we checked
- cafehabana.com https://www.cafehabana.com/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/cafe-habana-new-york-4
- OpenTable https://www.opentable.com/r/cafe-habana-new-york
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Record btiea-0375 · checked by Cal Marchetti.