What Happened to Cooks & Captains After Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Best Thing I Ever Ate, All-Star Brooklyn, New York Closed 2017
Current status
As of October 2026, Cooks & Captains has closed — confirmed via bklyner.com, December 1, 2017.
What the source shows: A 2017-12-01 Bklyner article and a Yelp listing updated 2026-06 both indicate Cooks & Captains has closed, with no reopening or successor confirmed. How we decide a status →
- Episode All-Star, Episode 4
- Address 254 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
The 'Marvelous Meats' episode of All-Star Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network, aired 2020-08-10, per TheTVDB.com) featured Cooks & Captains, a seafood-and-rotisserie restaurant on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, known locally for a rotisserie-pig sandwich (Patch). Chef Tristen Epps ran the kitchen for owner Peter Best, who also operated SoCo in Clinton Hill and Streets in Williamsburg, in a space that had previously housed the Grand Central Oyster Bar (Bklyner). Bklyner reported on 2017-12-01 that a hand-written sign on the restaurant's door announced its closing less than a year after opening, and that its team was working on a new concept for the same space, per the same article. A Yelp business listing updated 2026-06 marks Cooks & Captains as permanently closed; no successor business is confirmed at the address in current sources.
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Sources we checked
- bklyner.com https://bklyner.com/four-park-slope-restaurants-serve-final-course/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/cooks-and-captains-brooklyn
- patch.com https://patch.com/new-york/parkslope/craving-late-night-snack-rotisserie-pig-cooks-captains-will-have-you-covered
- TheTVDB https://thetvdb.com/series/all-star-best-thing-i-ever-ate/episodes/7853504
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Record btiea-0930 · checked by Cal Marchetti.