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Is Drago's Seafood Restaurant Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3 Metairie, Louisiana

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Drago's Seafood Restaurant is open — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.

What the source shows: A Yelp listing updated August 2026 and Drago's own multi-location website both list the Metairie address as an active current restaurant location. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Drago's Seafood Restaurant is the Cvitanovich family's Croatian-American seafood house in Metairie, credited in restaurant histories as the birthplace of chargrilled oysters — butter-and-garlic-topped oysters seared on an open grill — the specialty that fits the show's 'Grilled' episode (S3E1). The Metairie dining room is the original location of what has grown into a small regional chain, serving Gulf seafood alongside the chargrilled-oyster dish now widely copied across New Orleans. According to Drago's own website, the Metairie restaurant remains listed among the company's current locations alongside a downtown New Orleans dining room inside the Hilton Riverside. A Yelp business page for the Metairie address was last updated in August 2026 with more than 2,300 reviews, according to Yelp, showing continued customer activity rather than a closure.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3

Episode 1
Air date not confirmed
Title: Grilled · What was featured: chargrilled oysters, the restaurant's signature open-grill preparation

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/dragos-seafood-restaurant-metairie
  2. dragosrestaurant.com https://www.dragosrestaurant.com/metairie
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