Is CheeseSmith Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Wilmington, NC)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11 Wilmington, North Carolina
Current status
As of October 2026, CheeseSmith is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: The business's own site, live 2026-09-08, lists the Cargo District address with an active Toast online-ordering link, and a Yelp listing for the same address, updated July 2026, shows continued review activity. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 11, Episode 2
- Address 624 S 17th St, Wilmington, NC 28401
- Website cheesesmithco.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
CheeseSmith started as a Wilmington, North Carolina food truck built around gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches, created by husband-and-wife team Brendan and Molly Curnyn, according to Port City Daily's 2018 profile of the business. Signature sandwiches include the Buffalo Baby, with Havarti and buffalo chicken, and the Frenchie, with brie, caramelized onions, apple, and sweet pepper jam, per the same source. The truck's popularity led the Curnyns to open a permanent restaurant on the corner of South 17th and Queen streets in Wilmington's Cargo District. The business's own site, cheesesmithco.com, lists that address as 624 South 17th Street and currently runs an active online-ordering link through Toast for the location. A Yelp listing for the same address, updated July 2026, shows continued review activity under the name Cheese Smith, with a listed phone number of (910) 231-0808.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- cheesesmithco.com https://www.cheesesmithco.com/cargodistrict
- portcitydaily.com https://portcitydaily.com/story/2018/07/05/wilmingtons-newest-food-truck-cheesesmith-is-re-imagining-the-classic-grilled-cheese/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/cheese-smith-wilmington
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Record btiea-0831 · checked by Cal Marchetti.