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What Happened to La Isla After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Seattle, WA)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 9 Seattle, Washington

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, La Isla has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing for La Isla Cuisine at 2320 NW Market St, updated August 2026 and marked 'CLOSED,' reports the Ballard location closed due to fire damage. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

In the episode 'Layers of Goodness' (S9E15), the series featured La Isla Cuisine, a Puerto Rican restaurant at 2320 NW Market Street in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, known for Caribbean and coastal Puerto Rican dishes. Yelp's listing for the location, updated August 2026, is marked 'CLOSED' and reports the restaurant closed after fire damage. Laislacuisine.com, the business's own site, continues to promote the La Isla Cuisine name and describes it as Washington state's first Puerto Rican restaurant. According to public listing information, a separate La Isla Cuisine location has opened in Redmond, Washington, at the Redmond Square shopping center, operating independently of the Ballard address featured in the episode. Because the fire-related closure of the Ballard location has not been confirmed as permanent by an independent dated source, this record is reported rather than verified.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 9

Episode 15
Air date not confirmed
Title: Layers of Goodness · What was featured: Puerto Rican coastal specialties at a Ballard restaurant

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/la-isla-cuisine-seattle
  2. laislacuisine.com https://laislacuisine.com/
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Record btiea-0712 · checked by Cal Marchetti.