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Is Tamales Ancira Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (San Diego, CA)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11 San Diego, California

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Tamales Ancira shows as open per Google location data; not yet reviewed by our team.

What the source shows: Google Places lists the business as operational at 2260 Main St Unit 17, Chula Vista, CA 91911 on 2026-09-08. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network) featured the restaurant in its Holiday Delights episode (S11E5), a segment built around a tamale specialty implied by the business's name. Tamales Ancira is a Mexican restaurant with multiple listed locations in the San Diego area. Yelp carries a page for a location at 2015 Garnet Avenue in San Diego, last updated February 2026, and a separate page for a former location at 1404 Garnet Avenue in San Diego marked as closed with no update date shown. Yelp and Tripadvisor also list active pages for locations in Chula Vista and Escondido, California, and search results describe a long-running Tijuana location as well. Because the San Diego listings conflict on which address is current, and no dated source confirms which location the show featured, this record could not be resolved to a single current status.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11

Episode 5
Air date not confirmed
Title: Holiday Delights · What was featured: the restaurant's tamales, per its name and Mexican-cuisine listings

Also in Season 11 Best Thing I Ever Ate

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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/tamales-ancira-san-diego
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/tamales-ancira-san-diego-2
  3. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/tamales-ancira-chula-vista?start=60
  4. Tripadvisor https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g32210-d4947117-Reviews-Tamales_Ancira-Chula_Vista_California.html
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