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What Happened to Benny's Seafood Restaurant After Best Thing I Ever Ate?

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As of September 2026, Benny's Seafood Restaurant has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, November 18, 2025.

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What the source shows: A Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives fan site (updated 2025-11-18) and Yelp (updated 2026-05, marked CLOSED) agree that Benny's Seafood Restaurant at 2500 SW 107th Ave is no longer operating, and Foursquare separately lists the location as no longer open.

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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network) featured Benny's Seafood in the show's 'Totally Fried' episode (Season 1, Episode 1), highlighting a fried dish from the South Miami, Florida restaurant's Puerto Rican menu. Benny's Seafood Restaurant was established in 1994 and became known for mofongo and other Puerto Rican seafood, beef, pork, and chicken dishes, according to Flavortown USA's restaurant-locations reference. The restaurant was previously featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Season 3, Episode 37) and is already catalogued in this database as ddd-0120, matching this batch line by name and South Miami/Miami-area location; the location returned by this batch's automated place search (a Lake Worth Beach restaurant with a different name) does not match either appearance and was disregarded. This entry logs Benny's Seafood's additional appearance on The Best Thing I Ever Ate; see ddd-0120 for the restaurant's current status, address, and operating details.

On Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives episode 'In the Family' (aired 2008-06-30), Guy Fieri visited Benny's Seafood Restaurant, a Puerto Rican restaurant in the South Miami area known for mofongo, marinated conch salad, fried shrimp, and dishes like bistec encebollado and lobster bisque. The restaurant, at 2500 SW 107th Ave, paired seafood with homestyle Puerto Rican cooking, including a mofongo one cook described on a fan site as based on a family recipe. A Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives fan site reported on 2025-11-18 that the restaurant's listing was marked permanently closed. Yelp's listing for the restaurant, updated 2026-05, also shows it as closed, and Foursquare separately lists the location as no longer open. Fan-site reviewers recalled visiting the restaurant as recently as 2012, while a 2017 visitor reported being unable to locate it at all.

Featured on Best Thing I Ever Ate

Season / episode
Season 1, Episode 1
Original air date
Not confirmed
Episode title
Totally Fried
What was featured
A fried Puerto Rican seafood dish featured in the 'Totally Fried' episode
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Benny's Seafood Restaurant
Season / episode
Season 3, Episode 12
Original air date
Episode title
In the Family
What was featured
mofongo, marinated conch salad, fried shrimp, Puerto Rican homestyle dishes
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Benny's Seafood Restaurant

Frequently asked questions

Is Benny's Seafood Restaurant still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, Benny's Seafood Restaurant has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, November 18, 2025.

What happened to Benny's Seafood Restaurant after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network) featured Benny's Seafood in the show's 'Totally Fried' episode (Season 1, Episode 1), highlighting a fried dish from the South Miami, Florida restaurant's Puerto Rican menu. As of September 2026, Benny's Seafood Restaurant has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, November 18, 2025.

Is Benny's Seafood Restaurant permanently closed?

As of September 2026, Benny's Seafood Restaurant has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, November 18, 2025. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

Where is Benny's Seafood Restaurant located?

2500 SW 107th Avenue, Miami, FL 33165. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Best Thing I Ever Ate featured Benny's Seafood Restaurant?

Season 1, Episode 1 of Best Thing I Ever Ate. The episode is titled “Totally Fried”.

Is Benny's Seafood Restaurant still using the Best Thing I Ever Ate menu or branding?

The Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network) featured Benny's Seafood in the show's 'Totally Fried' episode (Season 1, Episode 1), highlighting a fried dish from the South Miami, Florida restaurant's Puerto Rican menu. Anything newer than our last check on September 7, 2026 may not be reflected here.

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Address
2500 SW 107th Avenue, Miami, FL 33165
Venue type
restaurant
Official website
bennyseafood.com

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