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What Happened to The Foundry on Melrose After Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3 Los Angeles, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, The Foundry on Melrose has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.

What the source shows: A Yelp listing updated August 2026 and a Foursquare listing both mark The Foundry on Melrose as permanently closed, consistent with a 2026 LAmag report of the restaurant's shutdown. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The Foundry on Melrose was chef Eric Greenspan's contemporary American restaurant on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, built around indulgent comfort food including a widely cited grilled cheese sandwich and beer-steamed mussels — the kind of crave-worthy dish that fit the show's 'Simply Irresistible' episode (S3E2). Greenspan opened the restaurant in 2007, and it was nominated that year by the James Beard Foundation as one of the best new restaurants in the country. LAmag reported that the restaurant announced a closure for a 'transitional period,' and a Yelp business page for the Melrose Avenue address was updated in August 2026 marking the listing permanently closed, according to Yelp. A Foursquare listing likewise shows the location as 'Now Closed,' according to Foursquare, though none of the sources reviewed gave an exact closure date.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3

Episode 2
Air date not confirmed
Title: Simply Irresistible · What was featured: an indulgent comfort-food dish, including the restaurant's noted grilled cheese sandwich

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-foundry-on-melrose-los-angeles
  2. Foursquare https://foursquare.com/v/the-foundry-on-melrose/466e61c5f964a520b6471fe3
  3. lamag.com https://lamag.com/news/the-foundry-to-close-sunday-for-transitional-period/
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