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What Happened to Cereality Cereal Bar & Cafe After Food Paradise?

Food Paradise, Season 1 Santa Cruz, California Closed 2009

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Cereality Cereal Bar & Cafe has closed — confirmed via Yelp, May 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing for the Santa Cruz Cereality cafe, updated 2026-05, lists it as closed, and Santa Cruz LocalWiki states the location closed in early 2009 and was replaced by a business called Swirl. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Food Paradise's "Breakfast Paradise" episode featured Cereality Cereal Bar & Cafe in Santa Cruz, California, spotlighting its made-to-order cereal bowls served with a bar of mix-in toppings. Cereality was a cereal-bar chain concept with cafe locations that briefly operated in cities including Santa Cruz, Chicago, and Dallas. According to Santa Cruz LocalWiki, the Santa Cruz location at 1315 Pacific Avenue closed in early 2009 and was replaced by a business called Swirl. Yelp's listing for the Santa Cruz cafe, updated 2026-05, still lists it as closed.

Yelp listings for other Cereality locations, including ones in Dallas and Chicago, are likewise listed as closed, consistent with the chain no longer operating nationally. No current Cereality website or operating location under that name was found for Santa Cruz.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 1

Episode 14
Air date not confirmed
Title: Breakfast Paradise · What was featured: made-to-order cereal bowls with mix-in toppings
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 1 Food Paradise

Season 1: 85 of 114 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/cereality-bar-and-cafe-santa-cruz
  2. localwiki.org https://localwiki.org/santacruz/Cereality
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