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What Happened to Upstairs On the Square After Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 1 Cambridge, Massachusetts Closed December 2013

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Closed

As of October 2026, Upstairs On the Square has closed — confirmed via Wikipedia, July 11, 2026.

What the source shows: Wikipedia (revised 2026-07-11) describes Upstairs On the Square's 31-year run ending December 31, 2013 after its landlord sold the building, and a Google listing checked 2026-09-08 marks the business permanently closed. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The Best Thing I Ever Ate's pilot episode featured Upstairs On the Square, a Harvard Square restaurant that Wikipedia, revised 2026-07-11, describes as serving an adventurous, classic European menu. The restaurant, originally called UpStairs at the Pudding for its location above Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was owned and run together for more than three decades by Mary-Catherine Deibel and Deborah Hughes. According to Wikipedia, the restaurant ended its 31-year run on December 31, 2013, after the building's landlord sold the property housing it. Google's listing, checked 2026-09-08, marks the business permanently closed, corroborating the closure described by Wikipedia. In 2012, before the closure, Hughes' daughter Charlotte Silver published a memoir, Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood, about growing up at the restaurant, according to Wikipedia.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 1

Episode Pilot
Air date not confirmed
Title: Pilot · What was featured: adventurous classic European cuisine at a Harvard Square restaurant

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