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Is Henry Public Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Brooklyn, NY)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11 Brooklyn, New York

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Henry Public is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: A site check found henrypublic.com live with current hours and an active ordering system, and a Yelp listing for the same address, updated July 2026, shows continued review activity. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Henry Public is an Old Time Brooklyn saloon-style bar and restaurant just off Atlantic Avenue, on the border of Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights, known for grass-fed burgers, classic cocktails, and oysters, according to the business's own site, henrypublic.com. Its best-known dish is a milk-braised turkey leg sandwich with crispy fried onions on toasted Pullman bread, previously featured on Food Network's Best Thing I Ever Ate, where chef Anne Burrell tried it, according to Eat This NY's writeup of the dish. A site check on 2026-09-08 found henrypublic.com live and returning normally, with an active online-ordering system and hours posted for weekend brunch.

OSM-sourced hours for the Henry Street address show the bar open daily, from midday through late evening on weekends. A Yelp listing for the same 329 Henry Street address, updated July 2026, shows continued review activity under the Gastropubs category, with 323 reviews and a listed phone number of (718) 852-8630 matching the number on the business's own site.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11

Air date not confirmed
Title: Thanksgiving · What was featured: Milk-braised turkey leg sandwich, previously shown on this series

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. henrypublic.com https://www.henrypublic.com
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/henry-public-brooklyn
  3. eatthisny.com https://eatthisny.com/2010/06/20/tony-100-best-09/79-turkey-leg-sandwich-at-henry-public/
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Record btiea-0835 · checked by Cal Marchetti.