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What Happened to Llama Inn After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Brooklyn, NY)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 9 Brooklyn, New York Closed 2025

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Llama Inn has closed — confirmed via greenpointers.com, April 17, 2026.

What the source shows: Greenpointers reported on 2026-04-17, and Resy in May 2026, that Llama Inn closed at end of 2025 and the same Withers Street space now houses a new restaurant, Cafe Bar J.F., from the same ownership group. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Llama Inn was a Peruvian restaurant at 50 Withers Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, known for wood-fired small plates and a pisco-forward bar program, according to Wikipedia (revised 2026-07-11). Best Thing I Ever Ate featured the restaurant's Peruvian menu in the episode "One of a Kind" (Season 9, Episode 17). According to Greenpointers, reporting 2026-04-17, Llama Inn closed at the end of 2025, and the same Withers Street space was being taken over by Cafe Bar J.F., a new South American-inspired tavern from the same restaurant group.

According to Resy, reporting in May 2026, Cafe Bar J.F. -- led by Llama Inn alumnus Juan Correa and chef Francisco Castillo of sister restaurant Llama San -- opened on 2026-05-13. A site check on 2026-09-08 found llamainnnyc.com no longer returning a response, consistent with the closure. No indication of a Llama Inn reopening elsewhere was found in this check.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 9

Episode 17
Air date not confirmed
Title: One of a Kind · What was featured: Peruvian small plates and pisco cocktails at Llama Inn in Williamsburg

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. greenpointers.com https://greenpointers.com/2026/04/17/south-american-tavern-cafe-bar-j-f-to-open-this-spring-in-former-home-of-llama-inn/
  2. blog.resy.com https://blog.resy.com/2026/05/cafe-bar-jf-nyc/
  3. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama_Inn
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Record btiea-0725 · checked by Cal Marchetti.