Is Kiki's Mexican Restaurant Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 4 El Paso, Texas
Current status
As of October 2026, Kiki's Mexican Restaurant 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 for Kiki's Mexican Restaurant (2719 N Piedras St, El Paso, TX), updated June 2026, shows detailed current weekly hours and an active, continuing review base, and the business also maintains an active Facebook page -- corroborating beyond the prior Google-Places-only automated signal. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 1
- Address Mobile Avenue, El Paso, TX 79903
- Now called Kiki's Mexican Restaurant and Bar
- Website kikisrestaurant.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
On the Cooking Channel's Best Thing I Ever Ate episode 'Close to Home' (Season 4, Episode 1), chef Aarón Sánchez named Kiki's beef machaca as his pick, according to Wikipedia's episode guide for the series. Kiki's Mexican Restaurant and Bar is a Mexican restaurant in central El Paso, Texas, founded in 1976 by Paula Yardeni, according to Wikipedia. The restaurant is also known for its enchiladas and mole, and it made Hispanic Magazine's list of the 50 Best Hispanic Restaurants annually from 1997 to 2002, according to the same source. Wikipedia records that Hector Latigo purchased the restaurant from the retiring founder in 2011, and that the building retains its original adobe-style construction with vintage decor, including wood paneling and Polaroid photos of customers on the walls.
The episode
Also in Season 4
Season 4: 60 of 102 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 1Model Bakery
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Ep 2El Chorro Lodge
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Sources we checked
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Record btiea-0299 · checked by Cal Marchetti.