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Is Pho Tau Bay Vietnamese Cuisine Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 6 New Orleans, Louisiana

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Pho Tau Bay Vietnamese Cuisine is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: A Yelp listing for Pho Tau Bay, updated September 2026 with 414 photos and 421 reviews, showed the restaurant active at 1565 Tulane Avenue. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The episode featured Pho Tau Bay Vietnamese Cuisine, a Vietnamese restaurant on Tulane Avenue that has served the New Orleans area since 1982. The restaurant specializes in pho and other Vietnamese dishes for the Mid-City neighborhood, drawing a long-running local following over more than four decades in business. According to a Yelp listing updated September 2026, showing 414 photos and 421 reviews, the restaurant remained active at 1565 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans. The Yelp page listed weekday hours of 11 AM to 7 PM, with the restaurant closed on weekends. An OpenTable listing, independently carrying a 2026 update notice, listed the same Tulane Avenue address and phone number, (504) 368-9846, for the restaurant, reinforcing that the business was still taking reservations and operating under the same name and location.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 6

Episode 2
Air date not confirmed
Title: New Orleans · What was featured: Mid-City New Orleans restaurant serving Vietnamese pho since 1982

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-tau-bay-restaurant-new-orleans
  2. OpenTable https://www.opentable.com/r/pho-tau-bay-new-orleans
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