What Happened to Gourmet Dumpling House After Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 5 Boston, Massachusetts Closed July 2022
Current status
As of October 2026, Gourmet Dumpling House has closed — confirmed via nbcboston.com, June 21, 2022.
What the source shows: NBC Boston's June 2022 article documents the Chinatown location's announced July 1, 2022 closure via the business's own Google Maps post, and Yelp's listing for the address remains tagged permanently closed as of September 2026. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 5, Episode 4
- Address 52 Beach St, Boston, MA 02111
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
The 'Better Than Mine' episode (S5E4) featured Gourmet Dumpling House, an award-winning Chinese restaurant in Boston's Chinatown known for soup dumplings and other Shanghainese-style dishes. The restaurant operated from 52 Beach Street for 15 years and had been recognized by Travel and Leisure as one of the 25 best Chinese restaurants in the United States. According to NBC Boston, published 2022-06-21, the business announced in a Google Maps post that 'due to the lease term,' the Chinatown location would close its operations on 2022-07-01. The same report noted a separate Cambridge location remained available to customers after the Chinatown closure. A Yelp business page for the Beach Street address, updated 2026-09, still marks the listing permanently closed. No reopening of the Chinatown storefront was found in available sources.
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Sources we checked
- nbcboston.com https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/gourmet-dumpling-house-in-bostons-chinatown-is-closing/2752959/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/gourmet-dumpling-house-boston-3
- bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2022/06/gourmet-dumpling-house-in-bostons.html
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Record btiea-0426 · checked by Cal Marchetti.