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What Happened to Native After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Santa Monica, CA)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 10 Santa Monica, California

Current status

Closed

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

What the source shows: Google Places lists the business as permanently closed at 620 Santa Monica Blvd #A, Santa Monica, CA 90401 as of 2026-09-08. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate featured Native on its 'Chocolate Bliss' episode, spotlighting the restaurant's seasonal New American cooking with global influences, as shown in the episode. A 2018 blog post on all-things-andy-gavin.com describes a Santa Monica restaurant called Native as a New American restaurant that opened in 2017 and closed about eighteen months later, though this could not be confirmed as the same business referenced in the original listing. Search results also returned an unrelated, separately closed business called Native Foods Cafe at a different Santa Monica address, and a current Los Angeles restaurant called Native By Nyesha, neither of which could be confirmed as connected to the show-featured Native. In a September 2026 check, Google's listing for Native at 620 Santa Monica Boulevard in Santa Monica marked the restaurant permanently closed.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 10

Episode 3
Air date not confirmed
Title: Chocolate Bliss · What was featured: seasonal New American plates with global influences

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. all-things-andy-gavin.com https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2018/09/08/going-native/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/native-restaurant-santa-monica
  3. postcard.inc https://www.postcard.inc/places/native-santa-monica-santa-monica-jQCOcNStwCy
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