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What Happened to home.made After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Athens, GA)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 10 Athens, Georgia Closed February 2024

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, home.made has closed — confirmed via aol.com, February 2024.

What the source shows: AOL and the Red & Black both reported that home.made served its last day of business on February 16, 2024, and Yelp's listing for the restaurant is marked permanently closed. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The 'Best Meal Deal' episode featured home.made, a New American restaurant on Baxter Street in Athens, Georgia, built around scratch-made comfort food served at accessible prices. The restaurant opened in the early 2010s under owner Mimi Maumus and operated for more than a decade in downtown Athens. According to AOL, home.made served its final day of business on February 16, 2024, with the owner citing the lingering financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic together with prolonged Athens-Clarke County sewer construction outside the restaurant as reasons for closing.

The Red & Black's Athens restaurant roundup reported the same closure. Yelp's business listing for home.made was updated in June 2026 and marks the location permanently closed. A site check on 2026-09-08 found the restaurant's website returning no response, consistent with the reported closure.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 10

Episode 5
Air date not confirmed
Title: Best Meal Deal · What was featured: an affordable New American meal deal at the Athens restaurant

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. aol.com https://www.aol.com/home-made-restaurant-permanently-closed-085210893.html
  2. redandblack.com https://www.redandblack.com/eat-drink/athens-restaurant-roundup-new-breakfast-service-at-agua-linda-home-made-officially-closes-and-more/article_3d3d850e-d0c2-11ee-b9dc-e39d5ea3093c.html
  3. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/home-made-athens
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