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What Happened to Farm Cafe After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Portland, OR)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3 Portland, Oregon Closed December 2015

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Farm Cafe has closed — confirmed via wweek.com, December 1, 2015.

What the source shows: Willamette Week reported on 2015-12-01 that owners Guy Weigold and Fearn Smith would close the restaurant permanently on December 31, 2015, and a Yelp listing for the address, updated July 2026, continues to mark it closed. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

"The Best Thing I Ever Ate" (episode "Burgers") featured a farm-to-table burger built from locally sourced beef and produce at The Farm Café, a restaurant known for sourcing directly from area farms and serving meals inside a roughly 100-year-old converted house at the corner of Southeast 7th Avenue and Burnside in Portland's Buckman neighborhood. According to Willamette Week (2015-12-01), owners Guy Weigold and Fearn Smith announced the restaurant would close permanently on December 31, 2015, after selling the property in early 2015 and struggling to sustain profitability in a leased version of the same space; the owners said "the situation became untenable." A Yelp listing for the address, updated July 2026, continues to mark the business permanently closed. Willamette Week's article noted the restaurant had served locally sourced food from the same house for 12 years before the closure announcement.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3

Episode 5
Air date not confirmed
Title: Burgers · What was featured: a farm-to-table burger built from locally sourced beef and produce

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. wweek.com https://www.wweek.com/restaurants/2015/12/01/farm-cafe-will-close-permanently/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-farm-caf%C3%A9-portland-2
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