What Happened to Mandarina After Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 4 San Francisco, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Mandarina has closed — confirmed via Yelp, January 2026.
What the source shows: Yelp's listing, updated January 2026, marks the Hayes Valley ice-pop shop as permanently closed, and no current active website or social presence was found to contradict it. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 12
- Address 535 Octavia St, San Francisco, CA 94102
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
The episode 'On A Stick' featured Mandarina's nitrogen-frozen strawberry ice pop, according to Food Network's own restaurant page for the business. Mandarina was a juice bar and ice-pop shop in San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood, selling fresh fruit juices, smoothies, and fruit-based pops at 535 Octavia Street. According to Yelp, a listing updated January 2026 marks the Octavia Street address as permanently closed. Food Network's own restaurant page for Mandarina, still hosted on foodnetwork.com, describes the business without noting the closure, indicating that page has not been updated to reflect current status. No active website, social media account, or current listing under the Mandarina name was found for the Octavia Street address during this check, and no successor business was identified at the location.
The episode
Also in Season 4
Season 4: 60 of 102 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 12Cafe Habana
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Ep 12Golden Deli
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Ep 12Minibar
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Ep 12Shake Shack
Open - Closed
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Ep 12Yakitoria
Closed -
Ep 13Bar Boulud
Closed
Nearest open restaurants
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Food Paradise
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/mandarina-san-francisco
- foodnetwork.com https://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/ca/san-francisco/mandarina-restaurant
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Record btiea-0378 · checked by Cal Marchetti.