What Happened to Lopez Southwestern Kitchen After Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Current status
As of October 2026, Lopez Southwestern Kitchen has closed — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026.
What the source shows: A Yelp business listing for the Lee Road address, updated June 2026, marks the restaurant permanently closed; the restaurant's other listings (OpenTable, Cleveland Scene) show no content newer than 2007. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 2, Episode 12
- Address 2196 Lee Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
The Best Thing I Ever Ate featured one of Lopez Southwestern Kitchen's Southwestern/Tex-Mex specialty dishes in the "Totally Unexpected" episode (season 2, episode 12). Lopez Southwestern Kitchen, also billed elsewhere as Lopez Southwest Kitchen and Lopez Southwestern Food Club, was a Southwestern restaurant and bar at 2196 Lee Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. A community-maintained Cleveland Scene listing for the business shows a Best Tex-Mex recognition dated October 10, 2007, and a Best Sunday Brunch award dated September 29, 2004, with no newer dated content on that page. According to a Yelp business listing updated June 2026, the Lee Road location is marked permanently closed. A separate OpenTable page for the restaurant likewise carried no confirmation of current operation.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/lopez-cleveland-heights-11
- community.clevescene.com https://community.clevescene.com/location/lopez-southwestern-food-club-1431219
- opentable.ca https://www.opentable.ca/lopez-southwest-kitchen
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Record btiea-0177 · checked by Cal Marchetti.