What Happened to Daisy May's After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (New York, NY)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 1 New York, New York Closed October 2017
Current status
As of October 2026, Daisy May's has closed — confirmed via gothamist.com, October 2, 2017.
What the source shows: Gothamist and the restaurant's own Facebook page confirm the restaurant closed in October 2017, and the original listing's mapped location is an unrelated business in England. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 1, Episode 2
- Address 623 11th Ave, New York, NY 10036
- Website daisymaysfarm.org
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
The Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network) featured barbecue from Daisy May's BBQ USA in the show's 'Bar-B-Que' episode. Daisy May's was a barbecue restaurant at 623 11th Ave in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, and Zagat Survey named it New York City's best barbecue for 2005 through 2008, according to Gothamist's profile of the restaurant. The restaurant's own Facebook page announced its closing, writing that 'not all great businesses are meant to go on forever,' and Gothamist and a Tripadvisor listing both mark the restaurant as permanently closed, with a closure date of October 2, 2017 cited in restaurant-history coverage. Google's business listing for the address returned by the show's automated address lookup, in Bishop's Stortford, England, is for an unrelated organization, a community farm, and does not describe this restaurant.
The episode
Also in Season 1
Season 1: 57 of 88 still open · 4 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 1Balthazar
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- Open
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Ep 2North Main BBQ
Closed - Open
- Closed
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Ep 2The Salt Lick
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Ep 2Yank Sing
Open
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Food Paradise
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Sources we checked
- gothamist.com https://gothamist.com/food/daisy-mays-bbq-usa
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DaisyMaysBBQUSA/
- Tripadvisor https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g60763-d459120-r562016408-Daisy_May_s_BBQ_USA-New_York_City_New_York.html
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Record btiea-0022 · checked by Cal Marchetti.