What Happened to Craigie on Main After Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3 Cambridge, Massachusetts Closed 2021
Current status
As of October 2026, Craigie on Main has closed — confirmed via patch.com, October 22, 2021.
What the source shows: Patch reported on 2021-10-22 that Craigie on Main had been temporarily closed since August 2021 and listed for sale by chef Tony Maws, and Yelp's listing was still marked permanently closed in an update dated August 2026. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 3, Episode 2
- Address 853 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02139
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
The episode featured chef-owner Tony Maws's New American cooking at Craigie on Main, known for whole-animal butchery, a nightly-changing tasting menu, and a late-night bar menu. The restaurant opened in 2008 on Main Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an expansion and rename of Maws's earlier Craigie Street Bistrot. According to Patch, Craigie on Main had been temporarily closed since August 2021 while Maws listed the restaurant and its equipment for sale at $500,000, though the report noted he was considering reopening the space under a new concept. Yelp's listing for the restaurant was still marked permanently closed in an update dated August 2026, and Wikipedia's entry on Tony Maws, revised October 2025, describes him only as the former chef-owner of Craigie on Main, with no indication a reopening occurred.
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Record btiea-0206 · checked by Cal Marchetti.