What Happened to Bottlefork Bar and Kitchen After Food Paradise?
Food Paradise, Season 12 Chicago, Illinois
Current status
As of October 2026, Bottlefork Bar and Kitchen has closed — confirmed via Yelp, July 2026.
What the source shows: A Yelp listing updated 2026-07 marks the business permanently closed, matching the permanently closed status on the Google listing collected for this project, and the business's website did not load. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 12, Episode 10
- Address 441 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60654
- Website bottlefork.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
The episode featured Bottlefork's whiskey-forward happy-hour menu and elevated bar bites, served in a New American gastropub setting in Chicago's River North neighborhood. Bottlefork opened in 2014 at 441 N. Clark St., built around a large bourbon and whiskey list alongside globally inspired, locally sourced small plates. A Yelp listing for the business, updated 2026-07, marks Bottlefork as permanently closed, consistent with the Google Places business record collected for this project, which also lists Bottlefork's status as permanently closed, and with the restaurant's website (bottlefork.com), which returned no response when checked on 2026-09-09. No exact closure date, successor tenant or stated reason for closing was found in the sources reviewed for this record, and no fresher source has surfaced showing the location reopened.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/bottlefork-chicago
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Record fp-0938 · checked by Cal Marchetti.