What Happened to Cafe Zen After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Baltimore, MD)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 4 Baltimore, Maryland
Current status
As of October 2026, Cafe Zen has closed — confirmed via Yelp, May 2026.
What the source shows: A Yelp listing for Cafe Zen at 438 E Belvedere Ave, updated 2026-05, marks the restaurant as permanently closed, and Gayot separately lists it among closed restaurants. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 7
- Address 438 E Belvedere Ave, Baltimore, MD 21212
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Best Thing I Ever Ate profiled Cafe Zen in the episode 'With Chopsticks,' one of several restaurants the show visited for dishes eaten with chopsticks, according to the episode-location index at TVFoodies. Cafe Zen was a Chinese restaurant on East Belvedere Avenue in Baltimore's North Baltimore neighborhood. According to Yelp, a listing updated 2026-05 marks Cafe Zen as permanently closed. Gayot separately lists Cafe Zen among closed restaurants, without giving a closure date. No details on when or why Cafe Zen stopped operating were found in the sources reviewed. The restaurant's phone number, (410) 532-0022, and its Seamless and Grubhub delivery pages remain listed online, though neither shows any current activity. No evidence of a reopening, relocation, or renaming was found in the sources reviewed.
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 7A Single Pebble
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Ep 7Ippudo
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Ep 7Szechuan Gourmet
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Ep 7Wazuzu
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Ep 7Yang Chow
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Ep 7Yellowtail
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/cafe-zen-baltimore
- gayot.com https://www.gayot.com/restaurants/cafe-zen-baltimore-md-21212_29ba9994.html
- tvfoodies.com https://www.tvfoodies.com/locations/1854/cafe-zen/
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Record btiea-0344 · checked by Cal Marchetti.