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What Happened to WoodSpoon After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Los Angeles, CA)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 Los Angeles, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, WoodSpoon has closed — confirmed via Yelp, May 2026.

What the source shows: A dated Yelp listing marks WoodSpoon permanently closed, consistent with an inactive Infatuation review page. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The episode featured WoodSpoon's Brazilian home-style cooking, including its chicken pot pie and red-and-white sangrias, served at a small counter-service spot in Downtown Los Angeles's Historic Core. The restaurant was a longtime, Black-owned Brazilian eatery in that neighborhood, per its listing on Time Out's Los Angeles restaurant guide. A Yelp listing for WoodSpoon was updated 2026-05 and marks the restaurant permanently closed. The Infatuation's review page for WoodSpoon, still indexed under its Los Angeles restaurant guide, no longer shows current hours or an active reservation link, consistent with the Yelp closure listing. No source found names an exact closure date or a reason for the closing.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2

Episode 9
Air date not confirmed
Title: The Classics · What was featured: WoodSpoon's Brazilian home cooking, including its chicken pot pie and sangria

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/woodspoon-los-angeles-5
  2. theinfatuation.com https://www.theinfatuation.com/los-angeles/reviews/wood-spoon
  3. timeout.com https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/restaurants/woodspoon
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