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What Happened to Arizona State Fair After Food Paradise? (Phoenix, AZ)

Food Paradise, Special Phoenix, Arizona

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Arizona State Fair is an annual fair or festival, featured on Food Paradise (2012) -- a seasonal event, not a year-round restaurant.

What the source shows: Arizona State Fair is an annual state fair in Phoenix, AZ, featured on Food Paradise's "State Fair Foods Paradise" episode (2012); it is a seasonal event, not a year-round restaurant. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

In the special 'State Fair Foods Paradise' (2012), the show toured food vendors at the Arizona State Fair in Phoenix. According to Wikipedia's Arizona State Fair article, revised 2025-07-23, the fair began in 1884, ran annually from 1946 through 2019 and again since 2021, and is organized by the Arizona Exposition and State Fair, a self-supporting state agency that receives no funding from the state's General Fund; the same article notes the grounds also host the Maricopa County Fair and the Arizona National Livestock Show. According to the fair's official website, checked 2026-09-08, the site carried a 2026 copyright notice and 2026-dated page content, with sections covering admission and hours, directions and parking, and fair food. Google Places lists the fairgrounds at 1826 West McDowell Road in Phoenix as operational.

The episode Food Paradise, Special

Episode 211
Aired
Title: State Fair Foods Paradise · What was featured: Fairground food vendors at the Arizona State Fair
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. azstatefair.com https://azstatefair.com/
  2. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_State_Fair
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Record fp-1665 · checked by Cal Marchetti.