What Happened to Edmart Deli After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Pikesville, MD)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 4 Pikesville, Maryland Closed 2019
Current status
As of October 2026, Edmart Deli has closed — confirmed via jmoreliving.com, December 30, 2019.
What the source shows: JMore reported the deli's owners closed the Pikesville shop permanently on 2019-12-31 after 61 years, and a Yelp listing updated 2026-02 still marks it permanently closed. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 4
- Address 1427 Reisterstown Rd, Pikesville, MD 21208
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
The episode's deli segment spotlighted Edmart's hand-cut brisket, a pick called out by chef Duff Goldman on the Food Network, showcasing the shop's old-school approach to curing and slicing meats in-house. Edmart was a roughly 900-square-foot delicatessen and specialty foods store in Pikesville, Maryland, founded in 1958 by Martin Lev and his partner Eddie Stern and later run for decades by the Lev family. According to JMore, the deli closed permanently on 2019-12-31, ending a run of more than 61 years at its Reisterstown Road location; the outlet quoted the Lev family reflecting on the shop's history as it wound down. A Yelp listing updated 2026-02 continues to show the business as permanently closed, with no indication a new operator has taken over the space.
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Sources we checked
- jmoreliving.com https://jmoreliving.com/2019/12/30/pikesvilles-edmart-deli-to-close-after-more-than-six-decades-in-business/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/edmart-delicatessen-pikesville
- foodnetwork.com https://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/md/pikesville/duff-goldman-brisket-edmart-deli-restaurant
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