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What Happened to Hill Country Chicken After Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 5 New York, New York

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Hill Country Chicken has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp marks both the Broadway (Union Square) and a Brooklyn Hill Country Chicken location CLOSED as of September 2026, with no current menu or hours at either. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The Best Thing I Ever Ate's 'Fried Chicken' episode (Food Network) featured Hill Country Chicken's Southern-style fried chicken plate, served with biscuits and sides in a Texas-inspired setting. Hill Country Chicken was a fried-chicken spinoff of the Hill Country Barbecue Market group, with its flagship location on Broadway near Union Square in Manhattan and a second location that later opened in Brooklyn. According to Yelp, both the Broadway and Brooklyn locations carry a 'CLOSED' heading in a September 2026 check, with no current hours, menu, or ordering link posted at either address. Hill Country Barbecue Market, a related but separate concept from the same restaurant group, continues to operate elsewhere in Manhattan, but no evidence of an active Hill Country Chicken location was found in this search.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 5

Episode 2
Air date not confirmed
Title: Fried Chicken · What was featured: Southern-style fried chicken plate with biscuits

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/hill-country-chicken-new-york
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/hill-country-chicken-brooklyn
  3. hillcountry.com https://www.hillcountry.com/
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