Is Cafe Martorano (Martorano's) Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 9 Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Current status
As of October 2026, Cafe Martorano is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed 2026.
What the source shows: The restaurant's own 2026-copyrighted website and an independently updated August-2026 Yelp listing both show Cafe Martorano operating at 3343 E Oakland Park Blvd, a different address than the initial (incorrect) location match. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 9, Episode 16
- Address 3343 E Oakland Park Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
- Now called Martorano's
- Website cafemartorano.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Part 1 — Season 9, Episode 16
In the episode 'I'll Have What They're Having' (S9E16), the series featured Cafe Martorano, an Italian-American restaurant at 3343 E Oakland Park Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Yelp's listing for the Oakland Park Boulevard location, updated August 2026, shows 842 photos and 842 reviews and lists operating hours of Tuesday through Thursday, 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., and Friday through Saturday, 5:30 p.m. to midnight. A separate, now-closed Cafe Martorano listing tied to a Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino address on Seminole Way is a different location from the Oakland Park Boulevard restaurant and is not reflected in this record's status.
Part 2 — All-Star, Episode 4
The 'Marvelous Meats' episode of All-Star Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network, aired 2020-08-10, per TheTVDB.com) featured Cafe Martorano, an Italian-American restaurant known for dishes like warm mozzarella and a homemade meatball once named among the world's best by Gourmet Magazine, per the restaurant's website. Chef Steve Martorano's restaurant pairs dinner service with live-DJ entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights after 10 p.m. A Yelp listing for the restaurant's Fort Lauderdale address, 3343 E Oakland Park Blvd, was updated in August 2026 and carries 842 reviews. The restaurant's own website, checked 2026-09-07 and carrying a 2026 copyright notice, describes two current locations — Fort Lauderdale and a newer Pittsburgh location — plus nationwide wholesale sales. The site no longer references the restaurant's earlier location inside the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino at 5751 Seminole Way, which a separate Yelp page marks as permanently closed.
The episodes
Also in Season 9
Season 9: 57 of 85 still open · 6 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 15Inotheke
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Ep 15Joy
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Ep 16Citizen Public House
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Ep 16Fat Rice
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Ep 16King's Chef Diner
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Ep 16Lodge Bread Co.
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Ep 16Poor Calvin's
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Ep 16Public House
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/cafe-martorano-fort-lauderdale
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/cafe-martorano-fort-lauderdale-2
- cafemartorano.com https://cafemartorano.com/
- TheTVDB https://thetvdb.com/series/all-star-best-thing-i-ever-ate/episodes/7853504
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Record btiea-0931 · checked by Cal Marchetti.