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What Happened to Maypop After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (New Orleans, LA)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 10 New Orleans, Louisiana

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Maypop has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: Google Places lists the business as permanently closed at 611 O'Keefe Ave, New Orleans, LA 70113 as of 2026-09-08. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Maypop appeared in the episode "Key Ingredient," which showcased the restaurant's Southeast Asian-inflected New Orleans cooking. The restaurant operated in the city's Warehouse/Central Business District and paired French Quarter ingredients with Vietnamese and Thai technique, a concept created as a sister project to the New Orleans restaurant Mopho. Since the episode aired, few dated updates have surfaced. A Yelp business listing marked the restaurant closed, updated 2026-08, though the notice does not give a specific closure date. In a September 2026 check, Google's listing for 611 O'Keefe Avenue also marked Maypop permanently closed; no successor business at the address has been reported. The restaurant's listed address is 611 O'Keefe Avenue in New Orleans.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 10

Episode 7
Air date not confirmed
Title: Key Ingredient · What was featured: Southeast Asian-inflected New Orleans cuisine on 'Key Ingredient'

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  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/maypop-restaurant-new-orleans
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Record btiea-0766 · checked by Cal Marchetti.