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What Happened to Resto After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (New York, NY)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 New York, New York

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Resto has closed — confirmed via Yelp, July 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing for 111 East 29th Street was updated in July 2026 and marks Resto permanently closed; no independent second source was located. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The 'Meat-Fest' episode featured Resto's Belgian-style gastropub menu, centered on the restaurant's mussels, frites, and charcuterie plates. Resto was a Belgian-influenced restaurant at 111 East 29th Street in Manhattan, opened in April 2007 by owner Christian Pappanicholas as a casual neighborhood gathering place serving approachable Belgian food in a New York style. Yelp's listing for the 29th Street address was updated in July 2026 and marks the restaurant permanently closed. No additional dated news source confirming an exact closure date was located; the Yelp listing update is the evidence currently on file for this record. A separate blog review of Resto, dated February 2010, is also listed among this record's sources as an independent account from the restaurant's early years.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2

Episode 5
Air date not confirmed
Title: Meat-Fest · What was featured: Belgian-style gastropub fare, mussels, and charcuterie plates

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/resto-new-york
  2. chewingthefat.us.com https://chewingthefat.us.com/2010/02/review-of-resto-belgian-restaurant-on-e.html
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Record btiea-0128 · checked by Cal Marchetti.