Is Hot Joy Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (San Antonio, TX)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 8 San Antonio, Texas
Current status
As of October 2026, Hot Joy is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 21, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: Yelp's listing (updated September 2026), Tock reservations, and Tripadvisor all continue to show Hot Joy actively operating at 1101 Broadway, San Antonio. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 8, Episode 8
- Address 1101 East Jones Avenue, San Antonio, TX 78215
- Website No current website found
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
"The Best Thing I Ever Ate" (Food Network) featured Hot Joy in its "Extra Crispy" episode (S8E8), highlighting the San Antonio kitchen's Asian-fusion small plates and fried dishes as part of the episode's crispy-food theme. Hot Joy is an Asian fusion restaurant that pairs its menu with tiki-inspired cocktails, beer, and sake, and offers lunch specials and a daily happy hour. According to Yelp, whose Hot Joy listing was updated in September 2026, the restaurant continues to draw customer reviews at its San Antonio location near Broadway and East Jones Avenue. The listing shows ongoing review activity into September 2026, with the Asian-fusion menu and cocktail program still the draw noted by reviewers on that update, and reviewers on the same Yelp listing continued to describe the small-plates menu and cocktail selection as the restaurant's main attraction.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/hot-joy-san-antonio-2
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Record btiea-0604 · checked by Cal Marchetti.