What Happened to Citizen Cake After Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 5 San Francisco, California Closed 2011
Current status
As of October 2026, Citizen Cake has closed — confirmed via newfillmore.com, December 9, 2011.
What the source shows: The New Fillmore reported on 2011-12-09 that Citizen Cake closed at its Fillmore Street location just before Christmas that year. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 5, Episode 13
- Address 2125 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA 94115
- Website No current website found
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
"The Best Thing I Ever Ate" featured Citizen Cake for chef Elizabeth Falkner's inventive pastries and cakes, served alongside a full restaurant and bar menu. Falkner opened Citizen Cake in San Francisco's Mission District in 1997, moved the restaurant and patisserie to 399 Grove Street in Hayes Valley in 2000, and relocated again to 2125 Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights in 2010. According to the New Fillmore, which published an article on 2011-12-09 about the restaurant closing, Citizen Cake shut its doors just before Christmas that year, after struggling to build a following at the Fillmore Street location. SFGate had earlier reported that Falkner was departing Citizen Cake for New York, a move that preceded the closure. No source describes Citizen Cake reopening under Falkner or new ownership after 2011.
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Sources we checked
- newfillmore.com https://newfillmore.com/2011/12/09/citizen-cake-calls-it-quits/
- sfgate.com https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Citizen-Cake-s-Elizabeth-Falkner-leaving-for-N-Y-3603021.php
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/citizen-cake-san-francisco
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