What Happened to Pietisserie After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Oakland, CA)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 10 Oakland, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Pietisserie has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, September 14, 2026.
What the source shows: Pietisserie's own official website (pietisserie.com) currently displays only a farewell letter from founder Jaynelle St. Jean, stating she 'relocated to the country and started raising hogs' after 'a baker's dozen.. years of operating Pietisserie,' with the letter's content referencing the 2023 holiday season. No menu, ordering, or storefront information remains on the site. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 10, Episode 12
- Address 1605 2nd Ave, Oakland, CA 94606
- Website pietisserie.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Pietisserie is a pie-focused bakery that, according to KQED's Bay Area Bites, opened a storefront in Oakland, California, offering handmade pies and pastries after building a following through pop-ups and farmers-market stands. It was featured on the show, episode 'Yummy in the Middle' (S10E12), as an Oakland pie shop. Locating current, dated information specifically for the Oakland storefront proved difficult: a business-listing aggregator lists a Pietisserie address at 1605 2nd Avenue, Oakland, CA 94606, but no current site, current review, or current hours were found tied to that address.
A Yelp listing for a separately addressed Pietisserie, at 1225 Fourth Street in Berkeley, CA, was marked permanently closed as of a June 2026 update, but that is a different city and address from the location referenced in the episode, so it does not resolve the Oakland location's status. In an October 2026 check, Pietisserie's own website showed only a farewell letter from founder Jaynelle St. Jean, who wrote that she had relocated to the country and started raising hogs after years of running the bakery, indicating the business as a whole has ended.
The episode
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Ep 11Ben's Chili Bowl
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Ep 12Billy's Mini Mart
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Ep 12Loring Place
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Ep 12MW Restaurant
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Ep 12Osteria Mozza
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Ep 12Varsi Deli
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Record btiea-0802 · checked by Cal Marchetti.