What Happened to Cal Mare After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Los Angeles, CA)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 9 Los Angeles, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Cal Mare has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: Google Places lists the business as permanently closed at 8500 Beverly Blvd Ste 115 ground floor, Los Angeles, CA 90048 as of 2026-09-08. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 9, Episode 17
- Address 8500 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048
- Website michaelmina.net
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Cal Mare, opened as Osteria Cal Mare, is a coastal Italian restaurant from chef Michael Mina at 8500 Beverly Boulevard inside the Beverly Center shopping complex in Los Angeles. Best Thing I Ever Ate featured the restaurant's coastal Italian seafood menu in the episode "One of a Kind" (Season 9, Episode 17). A Yelp listing for "Osteria Cal Mare" at that address, updated 2026-03, marks the restaurant closed. Separately, an architecture-firm project page from Neumann/Smith describes a "Cal Mare at The Beverly Center" design associated with chef Michael Mina at the same address, suggesting the concept may have been renamed or renovated rather than permanently shuttered, but no dated news source in this check confirmed which is currently accurate.
Because the two signals conflict and neither carries a clear, dated confirmation of current status, this record is left as status unknown pending a clearer source. The original listing gave the city as Beverly Hills; sources reviewed here place the address in Los Angeles, and the city has been corrected accordingly.
The episode
Also in Season 9
Season 9: 57 of 85 still open · 6 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 16Citizen Public House
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Ep 17Abe Fischer
Closed - Closed
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Ep 17Chick'nCone
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Ep 17Fong's Pizza
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Ep 17Llama Inn
Closed -
Ep 17Simply Crêpes
Open
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Best Thing I Ever Ate
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Best Thing I Ever Ate
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Food Paradise
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/osteria-cal-mare-los-angeles
- neumannsmith.com https://www.neumannsmith.com/cal-mare-at-the-beverly-center/
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Record btiea-0727 · checked by Cal Marchetti.