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Is Le Bernardin Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (New York, NY)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 New York, New York

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Le Bernardin is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: The restaurant's own live reservation site plus a dated Yelp listing and Michelin's current three-star rating show continued operation. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The episode featured Le Bernardin's seafood-focused tasting menus under chef Eric Ripert, known for classic French technique applied to raw and cooked fish courses in a Midtown Manhattan dining room. Le Bernardin holds three stars in the MICHELIN Guide, and La Liste again ranked it the world's top restaurant for 2026, according to those organizations' own published rankings. The restaurant's own site, checked 2026-09-08, runs a live Resy-based reservation system and lists a four-course dinner prix fixe at $215 per person alongside an eight-course tasting menu priced at $350 without wine. A Yelp listing for the restaurant was last updated 2026-07 and continues to log new customer photos and reviews. Reservations open on the first of each month for the following month, per the restaurant's own reservations page.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2

Episode 8
Air date not confirmed
Title: Crunchy · What was featured: Le Bernardin's tasting-menu seafood cuisine from chef Eric Ripert

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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. le-bernardin.com https://www.le-bernardin.com/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/le-bernardin-new-york
  3. guide.michelin.com https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/new-york-state/new-york/restaurant/le-bernardin
  4. le-bernardin.com https://www.le-bernardin.com/reservations
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