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Is Bounty Hunter Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Napa, CA)

Food Paradise, Season 16 Napa, California

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Bounty Hunter is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on October 11, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing shows reviews current through April 2026; the restaurant's own website independently lists the same address, hours and wine-and-barbecue concept described in the episode. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise? 2 episodes

Food Paradise, Season 16, Episode 7

Bounty Hunter Wine Bar & Smokin' BBQ appeared in the Eat Like a Local: California episode, which featured the restaurant's wine list and smoked barbecue, including its Friday Prime Rib dinner. This Bounty Hunter is the same Napa restaurant at 975 1st St already documented in the database under a separate record, where its current status and details are maintained. According to the restaurant's website, checked 2026-09-08, Bounty Hunter listed a weekly Friday Prime Rib dinner special and described itself as a destination for wine and smoked barbecue in downtown Napa.

Man v. Food, Season 10, Episode 6 Aired

Traveling through California's Wine Country, host Casey Webb stopped at this Napa restaurant and wine bar to try its beer can chicken, a whole free-range bird rubbed with a Cajun-style spice blend, mounted on a can of Mexican lager and grilled for up to two and a half hours, according to the episode synopsis on Wikipedia's Man v. Food season 10 page. Bounty Hunter Wine Bar & Smokin' BBQ operates on First Street in downtown Napa, pairing a barbecue-focused menu with an extensive wine list, per the restaurant's own website. The stop was the first of three the episode covered across Wine Country that week, the others being a bagel shop and a burrito challenge, both in nearby Petaluma. The episode aired October 11, 2022, according to Wikipedia's season 10 episode list.

The episodes Food Paradise

Episode 7
Air date not confirmed
Title: Eat Like a Local: California · What was featured: the restaurant's wine list and smoked barbecue, including its Friday Prime Rib dinner
Man v. Food, Season 10, Episode 6
Aired
What was featured: Cajun-spiced beer can chicken at a Napa wine bar
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Season 16: 44 of 72 still open · 7 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. bountyhunterwinebar.com https://www.bountyhunterwinebar.com/
  2. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_v._Food_season_10
  3. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/bounty-hunter-wine-bar-and-smokin-bbq-napa
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Record mvf-577 · checked by Cal Marchetti.