What Happened to Cricklewood After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Santa Rosa, CA)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 4 Santa Rosa, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Cricklewood has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, October 9, 2017.
What the source shows: Cricklewood's own website has displayed an unchanged closure notice since October 9, 2017, stating the restaurant burned down in the Tubbs Fire ('We are closed.. we can't call you personally to let you know we aren't there') and was never rebuilt. Yelp's listing independently confirms CLOSED status, updated as recently as August 2026. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 1
- Address Santa Rosa, CA
- Website No current website found
We have not confirmed map coordinates for this address yet.
What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
On the Cooking Channel's Best Thing I Ever Ate episode 'Close to Home' (Season 4, Episode 1), Guy Fieri named Cricklewood's French onion soup as his pick, according to Wikipedia's episode guide for the series. Cricklewood was a restaurant in Santa Rosa, CA, according to the same episode guide.
The episode
Also in Season 4
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Sources we checked
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Thing_I_Ever_Ate
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Record btiea-0303 · checked by Cal Marchetti.