What Happened to Il Vagabondo After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (New York, NY)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 New York, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, Il Vagabondo has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 2026.
What the source shows: Yelp's listing for Il Vagabondo, updated September 2026, marks the address CLOSED; a 2016 Jeremiah's Vanishing New York post cites critic Gael Greene reporting the building housing the restaurant had changed. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 2, Episode 9
- Address 351 East 62nd Street, New York, NY 10065
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
An episode on old-school dining classics featured Il Vagabondo, an Italian restaurant on East 62nd Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side that opened in 1965 and became known for its indoor bocce court, a rarity among New York restaurants. The restaurant served traditional Italian dishes in a clubby, wood-paneled dining room, with the bocce court doubling as an after-dinner draw for regulars. According to the blog Jeremiah's Vanishing New York (2016-02), restaurant critic Gael Greene reported that Il Vagabondo would be forced to close because the townhouse containing it, which the restaurant did not own, had been sold. A public Yelp listing updated 2026-09 marks the restaurant permanently closed at 351 East 62nd Street, New York. No indication of a relocated or reopened Il Vagabondo location was found in available records.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/il-vagabondo-new-york
- vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2016/02/il-vagabondo.html
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