Is Tsar Nicoulai, Ferry Building Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 San Francisco, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Tsar Nicoulai, Ferry Building is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 7, 2026.
What the source shows: Tsar Nicoulai's own website, checked September 7, 2026 and carrying a 2026 copyright notice, lists the Ferry Building cafe as an active location, and an event platform lists an oyster and caviar pop-up held there on June 3, 2026. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 2, Episode 4
- Address 1 Ferry Building, Shop 16, San Francisco, CA 94111
- Website tsarnicoulai.com
We have not confirmed map coordinates for this address yet.
What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Tsar Nicoulai Caviar operates a caviar cafe inside the Ferry Building Marketplace at 1 Ferry Building in San Francisco, serving farmed California white sturgeon caviar by the tin alongside caviar service, oysters, and sparkling wine pairings. The company is one of the domestic producers that helped popularize sustainably farmed American caviar as an alternative to imported product. According to the company's own website, tsarnicoulai.com, checked September 7, 2026 and carrying a 2026 copyright notice, the Ferry Building location remains listed as an active cafe. An event listing on the ma.to events platform, dated June 3, 2026, shows the cafe hosting an oyster and caviar pop-up event that month. A Yelp business listing for the cafe, updated in August 2026, gives its phone number as 415-800-9282 and does not mark it closed.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- tsarnicoulai.com https://tsarnicoulai.com/pages/locations
- ma.to https://ma.to/event/oyster-caviar-pop-up-03-jun-2026
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/tsar-nicoulai-caviar-cafe-san-francisco
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Record btiea-0117 · checked by Cal Marchetti.