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

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 5 New York, New York

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Cafe Ino has closed — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026.

What the source shows: The Google Places match points to an unrelated restaurant of the same name that opened in 2025 at a different address; the original 'ino wine bar and cafe at 21 Bedford Street, where the episode was filmed, is marked permanently closed. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

On Food Network's Best Thing I Ever Ate, in the 2011 episode "Eggstraordinary," chef Scott Conant named the Truffled Egg Toast at 'ino as his favorite dish, a sandwich of Amish egg yolks, truffle oil, and Fontina on Pullman bread. 'ino was a seven-table wine bar and cafe at 21 Bedford Street in Manhattan's West Village, opened in 1998 by Jason and Jennifer Denton after a trip to Italy inspired the paninoteca-style menu. A Yelp listing for 'ino Café & Wine Bar, updated 2026-06, marks the Bedford Street business as permanently closed, and Food Network's own restaurant directory separately lists 'ino Cafe & Wine Bar as closed. A different restaurant also named 'ino opened in June 2025 at 31 East 20th Street in the Flatiron District as an offshoot of the restaurant Bottino; it operates under new ownership at a different address and is not a reopening of the Bedford Street original.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 5

Episode 10
Air date not confirmed
Title: Eggstraordinary · What was featured: Truffled Egg Toast on Pullman bread

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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/ino-caf%C3%A9-and-wine-bar-new-york-3
  2. foodnetwork.com https://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/ny/new-york/ino-cafe-wine-bar-restaurant
  3. inonyc.com https://www.inonyc.com/
  4. foodiepie.com https://www.foodiepie.com/list.php?e=Best-Thing-I-Ever-Ate-Eggstraordinary
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