Is Mission Chinese Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 8 San Francisco, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Mission Chinese is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on October 18, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: Yelp's San Francisco listing for Mission Chinese Food, refreshed August 2026, shows active reviews and photos with no closure notice, and the business's own site still publishes a dedicated San Francisco location page. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 8, Episode 11
- Address 2234 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
- Website missionchinesefood.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
"Serious Spice" featured Mission Chinese Food, the Sichuan-inflected Chinese-American restaurant on Mission Street in San Francisco's Mission District, built around chili-forward dishes such as mapo tofu, dry-fried chicken wings, and salt cod fried rice. The restaurant grew out of chef Danny Bowien's pop-up concept before becoming a full restaurant and later expanding with a New York location. According to Yelp, whose San Francisco listing was refreshed in August 2026, the Mission Street restaurant continues to draw active reviews and photos with no closure notice attached to the page.
The business's own website, missionchinesefood.com, still maintains a dedicated San Francisco location page in addition to its New York listing, though the site's homepage defaults to showing the New York address and hours first. No 2026-dated news source confirming the San Francisco location's current status beyond these listings was found.
The episode
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Season 8: 63 of 80 still open · 5 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 10Fred's Meat & Bread
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Ep 11Bhatti Indian Grill
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Ep 11Guisados
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Ep 11Rasika (West End)
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Ep 11Redbird
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Ep 11Shuang Cheng
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/mission-chinese-food-san-francisco-4
- missionchinesefood.com https://www.missionchinesefood.com/sanfrancisco
- missionchinesefood.com https://www.missionchinesefood.com/
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Record btiea-0627 · checked by Cal Marchetti.