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What Happened to 3 Bar & Grill After Food Paradise? (Arlington, VA)

Food Paradise, Season 2 Arlington, Virginia

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, 3 Bar & Grill has closed — confirmed via arlnow.com, June 1, 2012.

What the source shows: The ARLnow article on the 2012 closure remains live and unchanged; no signal of any reopening under the same name at the Clarendon Blvd address. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Food Paradise's 'Bacon Paradise' (S2E1) featured 3 Bar & Grill, spotlighting the Arlington, Virginia restaurant's bacon dishes, pig roasts, and its annual Bacon Week promotion. The restaurant opened in October 2007 as 'Restaurant 3' under chef Brian Robinson and was rebranded 3 Bar & Grill in 2010, operating on Clarendon Boulevard in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, a dense restaurant-and-bar corridor near the Clarendon Metro station just across the Potomac from Washington, D.C. ARLnow.com reported on 2012-06-01 that the restaurant was closing. Google Places' business-status field also lists the Clarendon Boulevard address as permanently closed. No source was found describing any later reopening or a new tenant carrying the same name at that address, so the restaurant is recorded as closed based on the 2012 closure report.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 2

Episode 1
Air date not confirmed
Title: Bacon Paradise · What was featured: 3 Bar & Grill's bacon dishes and pig roasts
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Sources we checked 1 reference

  1. arlnow.com https://www.arlnow.com/2012/06/01/restaurant-3-in-clarendon-to-close/
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