What Happened to Devi After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (New York, NY)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 New York, New York Closed 2007
Current status
As of October 2026, Devi has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.
What the source shows: Wikipedia documents the restaurant's 2004 opening and 2007 closure, corroborated by a Yelp listing (updated August 2026) still marked permanently closed. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 2, Episode 11
- Address 8 E 18th St, New York, NY 10003
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
The Best Thing I Ever Ate featured Devi's spice-driven Indian cooking in the "Hot and Spicy" episode (season 2, episode 11), the kind of dishes that made the restaurant a standout on New York's fine-dining Indian food scene. Devi was an Indian restaurant in Manhattan's Flatiron District, at 8 East 18th Street, run by chefs and co-owners Suvir Saran and Hemant Mathur. According to Wikipedia, the restaurant opened in 2004 and became the first Indian restaurant in the United States to earn a Michelin star before closing in 2007. A Yelp business listing for the address, updated August 2026, continued to carry a permanently-closed designation, and Gayot's restaurant guide separately listed Devi under a closed heading.
The episode
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Record btiea-0176 · checked by Cal Marchetti.