Is Carneys Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (West Hollywood, CA)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 West Hollywood, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Carneys is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on October 11, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: Yelp's listing for Carney's at 8351 W Sunset Blvd, titled 'Updated September 2026,' showed over 1,000 reviews and 1,300+ photos with no closure notice. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 2, Episode 9
- Address 8351 West Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069
- Now called Carney's Restaurant
- Website carneytrain.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
The episode's classics segment featured Carney's, where hot dogs, chili dogs, and burgers are served from a repurposed Union Pacific rail car parked on the Sunset Strip. According to Wikipedia, the yellow rail car was brought to the West Hollywood site in 1978, and the restaurant has kept a casual, walk-up menu built around the train-car setting ever since. Carney's functions as a fast, counter-service stand rather than a sit-down dining room, with the parked cars serving as kitchen and counter space. According to Yelp, whose listing for 8351 West Sunset Boulevard was updated in September 2026, the restaurant had accumulated more than 1,000 reviews and over 1,300 photos, with no closure notice posted on the page.
Yelp's listing also confirms the same address, phone number, and general hours found in earlier records. Carney's also operates a second location in Studio City, giving the West Hollywood train car company under the same ownership at two Los Angeles-area sites.
The episode
Also in Season 2
Season 2: 64 of 102 still open · 8 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 9Butter Lane
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Ep 9Il Vagabondo
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Ep 9Parc
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Ep 9WoodSpoon
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/carneys-los-angeles-2
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carney's
- carneytrain.com https://www.carneytrain.com/
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Record btiea-0156 · checked by Cal Marchetti.