What Happened to Toro After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (New York, NY)

The episode "Small Plates, Big Taste" featured Toro's Barcelona-inspired tapas, a mix of hot and cold small plates meant to be shared. Toro is a Spanish tapas restaurant co-owned by chefs Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonnette with Will Malnati, operating inside the former Nabisco Factory building in Manhattan's South Chelsea neighborhood. The dining room seats about 120 and blends the building's industrial factory bones with tall windows overlooking the surrounding cityscape, and the cocktail program leans on Spain's gin-and-tonic tradition, according to the restaurant's site.

That September 8 read reflected the restaurant's website, not its actual status: as of September 2026, OpenTable's listing for Toro NYC (85 10th Avenue, Chelsea) reads 'Permanently Closed,' and Yelp and Gayot independently show the same. The restaurant's own website remained live with present-tense copy describing ongoing service, but that reads as an un-updated site rather than evidence of continued operation, given the matching closure signal across three independent platforms.