What Happened to Cassia After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Santa Monica, CA)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11 Santa Monica, California Closed 2025
Current status
As of October 2026, Cassia has closed — confirmed via smmirror.com, January 29, 2025.
What the source shows: Santa Monica Mirror reported 2025-01-29 that Cassia's owners announced on Instagram the restaurant would close, with final service held 2025-02-22; a Yelp listing updated 2026-08 continues to mark it permanently closed. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 11, Episode 10
- Address 1314 7th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401
- Website cassiala.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
"Best Thing I Ever Ate" episode "Stacked" featured Cassia's Southeast Asian and French-Vietnamese-inspired dishes in downtown Santa Monica. The restaurant, a few blocks from the Santa Monica Pier, opened in 2015 on 7th Street as a chef-driven project that built a following blending Vietnamese and French technique with Southeast Asian spice, running for nearly a decade. The restaurant's ownership group included chefs identified in the announcement only as Kim, Bryant, Zoe, Josh, and Colby, calling themselves the RC Family. Santa Monica Mirror reported on 2025-01-29 that the owners announced on Instagram they would close, citing rising costs, entertainment-industry strikes, and recent wildfires as factors; the owners said "these years have been truly special," with final service held on 2025-02-22. A Yelp business listing updated 2026-08 continues to mark Cassia as permanently closed, consistent with the Mirror's report.
The episode
Also in Season 11
Season 11: 79 of 96 still open · 4 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 9Babystacks Cafe
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Ep 10Anna's Deli
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Ep 10Kingfish
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Ep 10M. Henry
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Ep 10Melba's
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Ep 10Mr. Fries Man
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Ep 10Winnie's Tavern
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Sources we checked
- smmirror.com https://smmirror.com/santa-monicas-cherished-cassia-to-close-after-nearly-a-decade-after-series-of-setbacks/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/cassia-santa-monica
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Record btiea-0881 · checked by Cal Marchetti.