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What Happened to Spread After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (San Diego, CA)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 4 San Diego, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Spread has closed — confirmed via happycow.net, October 21, 2014.

What the source shows: HappyCow's listing for Spread records the closure as reported in October 2014, with a dated user review from October 21, 2014 stating the restaurant was no longer there, and Food Network's restaurant page for Spread is also marked CLOSED. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

On Best Thing I Ever Ate's "Nutty" episode, Tyler Florence picked Spread's White Chocolate Pretzel Peanut Butter, one of more than fifteen house-made nut spreads served at the restaurant alongside a fully vegetarian menu. Spread was a vegetarian restaurant at 2879 University Avenue in San Diego's North Park neighborhood, built around locally grown, organic ingredients and a menu centered on housemade nut and seed spreads meant to stimulate diners' culinary imagination. According to a HappyCow user review dated October 21, 2014, a visitor found the restaurant "no longer there" on a visit two days earlier, and HappyCow's own listing records the closure as reported to the site in October 2014. Food Network's restaurant page for Spread also marks the listing CLOSED.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 4

Episode 3
Air date not confirmed
Title: Nutty · What was featured: White Chocolate Pretzel Peanut Butter, a house-made nut spread

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. happycow.net https://www.happycow.net/reviews/spread-san-diego-4575
  2. foodnetwork.com https://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/ca/san-diego/spread-restaurant
  3. thebestthingieverate.com https://www.thebestthingieverate.com/Spread-San-Diego-CA
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