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What Happened to Tony Boloney's After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Hoboken, NJ)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11 Hoboken, New Jersey Closed July 2025

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Closed

As of October 2026, Tony Boloney's has closed — confirmed via hobokengirl.com, July 2025.

What the source shows: Hoboken Girl reported that a kitchen fire closed the Hoboken location on July 31, 2025, and later reported the owner was still working through insurance and fire-remediation issues; an August 2026 Yelp listing still marks the address permanently closed with no reopening confirmed. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate? 2 episodes

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11, Episode 7

The Cooking Channel's 'Best Thing I Ever Ate' featured one of Tony Boloney's signature specialty pizzas in the episode 'Pie's the Limit.' The Hoboken pizzeria, established in 2009, is known for playful, chef-named pies and a casual, music-driven atmosphere. According to the restaurant's Toast ordering page, Tony Boloney's Hoboken operates at 263 First St., Hoboken, NJ, and lists pizza, subs, wings, and salads on its menu.

Man v. Food, Season 8, Episode 3 Aired

Man v. Food's Casey Webb visited Tony Boloney's in Hoboken, New Jersey, a pizzeria and sandwich shop known for its stuffed pizzas and oversized specialty sandwiches, several named after regulars and local characters. The Hoboken shop was the original location of a small chain that later added outposts in Jersey City, Atlantic City, and Arlington, Virginia. Since the episode aired, Hoboken Girl reported the closure on July 31, 2025, after a kitchen fire at the Hoboken store, and reported in October 2025 that the property owner was still working through insurance and fire-remediation issues.

A Yelp listing updated August 2026 still marks the location permanently closed. Hoboken Girl also reported that the separate Jersey City location closed for good, while the Atlantic City and Arlington, Virginia locations were reported by the same outlet as still operating. As of the most recent reporting, no reopening date for the Hoboken store had been announced.

The episodes Best Thing I Ever Ate

Episode 7
Air date not confirmed
Title: Pie's the Limit · What was featured: One of Tony Boloney's signature specialty pizzas, in the 'Pie's the Limit' episode
Man v. Food, Season 8, Episode 3
Aired
What was featured: stuffed pizza and specialty deli sandwiches

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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. Toast https://www.toasttab.com/local/order/tony-boloneys-hoboken-263-first-st
  2. hobokengirl.com https://www.hobokengirl.com/tony-boloneys-fire-hoboken-nj-july-2025/
  3. hobokengirl.com https://www.hobokengirl.com/tony-boloneys-closes-jersey-city-location/
  4. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/tony-boloneys-hoboken-hoboken
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