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Where Is Bootleggin' BBQ Now? Food Paradise Update (St. Louis, MO)

Food Paradise, Season 15 St. Louis, Missouri

Current status

Relocated

As of October 2026, Bootleggin' BBQ has relocated to 3457 Morgan Ford Rd, St. Louis, MO — confirmed via the business's own website/social account, accessed September 2026. The original location is closed.

What the source shows: Bootleggin' BBQ, the Kansas City-style barbecue concept originally at 1933 Washington Ave in Downtown West St. Louis (the location associated with the Food Paradise episode), closed that address and relocated to 4501 Chouteau Ave in Forest Park Southeast, per KSDK Business Journal. The business's official website and Instagram feed, with posts dated as recently as September 14, 2026, confirm it remains open there as "Bootleggin' BBQ Tavern." How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

"Chowin' Down the Mississippi River" (S15E3) covered Kansas City-style barbecue on its St. Louis stop. According to Feast Magazine, a restaurant called Bootleggin' served Kansas City-style barbecue in the city's Downtown West neighborhood, and the same ownership group later opened a related bar, Bootleggin' Bob's, which Feast Magazine reported combined St. Louis-style pizza crusts with barbecued meats and a full bar at 3457 Morgan Ford Road in south St. Louis. the original listing's location match ties the featured business to that second address, but the two read as distinct venues, and no dated source confirms which one aired. Yelp listed a page for Bootleggin' Bob's as updated in April 2026, but the website given for this record, bootlegginbobs.com, did not respond during a check on 2026-09-08. Given the naming overlap between the two related venues, this record could not be matched with confidence to a single, verifiable business.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 15

Episode 3
Air date not confirmed
Title: Chowin' Down the Mississippi River · What was featured: Kansas City-style barbecue along the Mississippi River food tour
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 15 Food Paradise

Season 15: 77 of 104 still open · 6 renamed, moved or under new owners

All 13 Season 15 episodes →

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/bootleggin-bobs-st-louis
  2. feastmagazine.com https://www.feastmagazine.com/restaurants/in-south-st-louis-the-newly-opened-bootleggin-bob-s-pairs-kansas-city-style-barbecue/article_a5686f50-d54c-11eb-a3e7-4b1513244404.html
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Record fp-1191 · checked by Cal Marchetti.