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Is Elsie's Plate & Pie Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 9 Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Elsie's Plate & Pie is listed open on elsiespies.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: The restaurant's own website, checked 2026-09-08, returned HTTP 200 with an active online-ordering widget, a catering page, and current posted weekly hours. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate? 2 episodes

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 9, Episode 11

Best Thing I Ever Ate visited Elsie's Plate & Pie for the 'The Upper Crust' episode (S9E11), spotlighting the Baton Rouge restaurant's scratch-made pies alongside a Southern plate-lunch menu. Elsie's Plate & Pie is a restaurant in the Mid City neighborhood of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. On 2026-09-08, the restaurant's own website (elsiespies.com) listed an active online-ordering system, a catering-packages page for birthday parties, holiday parties, corporate events and weddings, and weekly hours running Monday 11am-9pm through the weekend, according to elsiespies.com. The site's homepage also named Mid City as the restaurant's home neighborhood and included navigation for a drinks and specials menu. No closure, relocation, or ownership-change notice appeared anywhere on the site during that check.

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 41, Episode 8 Aired

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Elsie's Plate & Pie, a Southern-style restaurant in Baton Rouge's Mid City neighborhood known for its pies, in the episode "Specialty Spots" (aired 2025-05-02). The restaurant's own website continues to describe it as a Mid City dining destination with online ordering, and Google Places lists it operational at 3145 Government St, matching the address already on file for this business.

The episodes Best Thing I Ever Ate

Episode 11
Air date not confirmed
Title: The Upper Crust · What was featured: Southern plate lunches and scratch-made pies at Elsie's
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 41, Episode 8
Aired
Title: Specialty Spots · What was featured: Southern pies and Mid City comfort food specialties

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. elsiespies.com https://elsiespies.com/
  2. elsiespies.com https://www.elsiespies.com/
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