Is The Modern Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (New York, NY)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 New York, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, The Modern is listed open on themodernnyc.com, reviewed by our team on September 15, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: OpenTable and the restaurant's own site both showed live, bookable reservation pages for the Bar Room and main dining room. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 2, Episode 12
- Address 9 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10103
- Website themodernnyc.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Best Thing I Ever Ate featured a dish from The Modern, the two-Michelin-starred restaurant beside the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, highlighting executive chef Thomas Allan's contemporary American cooking. The restaurant operates two distinct experiences: a tasting menu in the main dining room and an a la carte menu in the adjoining Bar Room, with views of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. According to themodernnyc.com, checked on 2026-09-08, the restaurant's own site listed active lunch and dinner hours and an online reservations page accepting bookings up to 28 days in advance.
OpenTable separately carried live reservation pages for both the Bar Room and the main dining room under the same address, 9 West 53rd Street. The Modern received two stars in the Michelin Guide's 2025 New York edition, according to Michelin's published guide.
The episode
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Ep 12Humphry Slocombe
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Sources we checked
- themodernnyc.com https://www.themodernnyc.com/reservations-11/
- OpenTable https://www.opentable.com/r/the-modern-dining-room
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Modern_(restaurant)
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Record btiea-0181 · checked by Cal Marchetti.