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Is La Petite Grocery Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 8 New Orleans, Louisiana

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, La Petite Grocery is listed open on lapetitegrocery.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: The restaurant's own website, checked 2026-09-08, returned HTTP 200 with 2025 copyright dating, a live reservations/ordering widget, and current posted dinner and lunch hours. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

"Small Plates, Big Taste" featured La Petite Grocery, a New Orleans restaurant occupying a converted early-1900s corner grocery store on Magazine Street in the Uptown area, known for refined Louisiana-inflected small plates and a supper-club-style bar program. The restaurant takes its name from the building's original use as a neighborhood grocery. According to the restaurant's own website, checked 2026-09-08, La Petite Grocery shows 2025 copyright dating alongside a live reservations and ordering widget and current posted hours, including dinner service from 5 p.m. and Saturday lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The site also promotes an on-site "La Petite Grocery Supper Club" bar concept, according to lapetitegrocery.com, indicating continued day-to-day operations at the Magazine Street address.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 8

Air date not confirmed
Title: Small Plates, Big Taste · What was featured: Louisiana-inflected small plates in a converted Uptown grocery building

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  1. lapetitegrocery.com https://www.lapetitegrocery.com/
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Record btiea-0637 · checked by Cal Marchetti.