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Is Charlie Vergo's Rendezvous Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 1 Memphis, Tennessee

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Charlie Vergo's Rendezvous is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: The restaurant's own website posted a dated operating notice about a September 8 closure and September 9 reopening, and Google Places separately lists it as operational. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate? 2 episodes

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 1, Episode 2

The Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network) featured Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous's dry-rub ribs in the show's 'Bar-B-Que' episode. The Rendezvous is a barbecue restaurant at 52 S 2nd St in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, reached through an alley off Second Street. A September 8, 2026 check of the restaurant's website, hogsfly.com, found a posted notice stating that the restaurant would be closed that day and would reopen with normal hours on September 9, with its shipping kitchen continuing to fill nationwide orders, according to the site. The same check found current hours listed for Thursday (11 a.m.-9 p.m.) and Friday and Saturday (11 a.m.-10 p.m.), a working online-ordering link, and pages for catering, events, and whole-ham shipping. Google Places lists the restaurant's operating status as operational.

Man v. Food, Season 1, Episode 02 Aired

Man v. Food (S1E02, aired 2008-12-03) featured Charlie Vergos's Rendezvous in Memphis, spotlighting the restaurant's dry-rub ribs. The Rendezvous's website, hogsfly.com, listed hours for Thursday through Saturday service and an active online shipping and ordering system for its barbecue, according to a site check on 2026-09-08. The same site check found a same-week operating notice stating the restaurant would close on September 8 and reopen with normal hours on September 9, while its mail-order shipping kitchen remained open to fill nationwide orders during the closure. The site listed the restaurant's address as 52 South Second Street in Memphis, matching the location associated with this record.

The episodes Best Thing I Ever Ate

Episode 2
Air date not confirmed
Title: Bar-B-Que · What was featured: Its dry-rub ribs featured in the show's 'Bar-B-Que' episode
Man v. Food, Season 1, Episode 02
Aired
What was featured: Memphis-style dry-rub ribs at Charlie Vergos's Rendezvous

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Sources we checked 1 reference

  1. hogsfly.com http://www.hogsfly.com/
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