What Happened to Lucques After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (West Hollywood, CA)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 5 West Hollywood, California Closed 2020
Current status
As of October 2026, Lucques has closed — confirmed via Time Out, March 11, 2020.
What the source shows: Google Places marks Lucques as permanently closed, and Time Out Los Angeles reported on 2020-03-11 that the owners would close the restaurant that spring after 21 years. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 5, Episode 9
- Address 8474 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90069
- Website lucques.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
On Food Network's Best Thing I Ever Ate, in the 2011 episode "French Favorites," New York Times critic Frank Bruni named Lucques' braised beef short ribs as his favorite dish. Lucques was a California-French restaurant at 8474 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, opened on 1998-09-25 by chef Suzanne Goin and restaurateur Caroline Styne and known for its prix fixe Sunday Suppers; the pair later won James Beard Foundation honors, Goin for outstanding chef in 2016 and Styne for outstanding restaurateur in 2018. According to Time Out Los Angeles, reported 2020-03-11, Goin and Styne announced they would close Lucques that spring after 21 years in business, and LAmag reported the restaurant served its final service on 2020-05-06. Google's Places listing, checked 2026-09-08, marks Lucques as permanently closed.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- timeout.com https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/news/california-cuisine-stalwart-lucques-will-surprisingly-close-this-spring-031120
- lamag.com https://lamag.com/dining/lucques-closing/
- foodiepie.com https://www.foodiepie.com/list.php?e=Best-Thing-I-Ever-Ate-French-Favorites
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Record btiea-0467 · checked by Cal Marchetti.