RDG Grill + Bar Annie Is Now The Annie Café & Bar
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3 Houston, Texas
Current status
As of October 2026, houstoniamag.com lists this address as The Annie Café & Bar; reviewed by our team on September 21, 2026, not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: Restaurant histories trace the Post Oak Boulevard address from the original Café Annie through RDG + Bar Annie, a 2016 reversion to the Café Annie name, and on to its current identity as The Annie Café & Bar. Re-confirmed September 2026: The Annie Café & Bar's own site and a Yelp listing updated September 2026 show it actively operating at 1800 Post Oak Blvd. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 3, Episode 1
- Address 1800 Post Oak Blvd #6170, Houston, TX 77056
- Now called The Annie Café & Bar
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
RDG Grill + Bar Annie was chef Robert Del Grande's grill-focused restaurant on Post Oak Boulevard in Houston, built around dishes like grilled bacon-wrapped eggs and a family Sunday-doughnuts tradition, according to a TV Foodies profile of the location — a fit for the show's 'Grilled' episode (S3E1). The restaurant traced back to Del Grande's original Café Annie, which closed in May 2009 before he opened 'Restaurant RDG' nearby two months later, according to a Bringing It Home history of the space. By May 2016, the Post Oak address had reverted to the Café Annie name, according to Houstonia Magazine, before further evolving into its current form, The Annie Café & Bar, still at 1800 Post Oak Boulevard. That history page currently lists Brian Sutton as executive chef with Del Grande now serving as chef emeritus and partner, according to Bringing It Home.
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Sources we checked
- houstoniamag.com https://www.houstoniamag.com/eat-and-drink/2016/05/rdg-is-dead-long-live-cafe-annie
- bringingithome.com https://www.bringingithome.com/restaurantstexas/the-annie-caf-amp-bar-houston-texas-5wgh9-syp8y-knd26
- tvfoodies.com https://www.tvfoodies.com/locations/2192/rdg-grill-bar-annie/
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