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What Happened to Chicken and Guns After Man v. Food? (Portland, OR)

Man v. Food, Season 5 Portland, Oregon Closed 2025

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Chicken and Guns has closed — confirmed via kptv.com, December 12, 2025.

What the source shows: KPTV reported that owner Dustin Knox announced the Cartopia food cart would close permanently December 28, 2025, to focus on the Gales Creek restaurant; Yelp's listing for the cart is marked closed as of an August 2026 update. How we decide a status →

What happened after Man v. Food?

Man v. Food's fifth season visited the Cartopia food-cart pod in Portland's Buckman neighborhood, where Chicken and Guns served wood-fired whole chicken rubbed with Latin spices alongside its signature "guns" -- baked-then-fried potatoes finished with lemon, oil, and aji sauce. The cart partnered with the Title Bout restaurant group in 2017 and was using roughly 750 chickens a week around the time of filming, according to Willamette Week. Willamette Week named it a food cart of the year in 2016, and Eater Portland included the dish among the city's chicken-and-jojo standouts in a 2021 roundup.

Co-owner Dustin Knox opened a brick-and-mortar location, Smokehouse Chicken and Guns, in Gales Creek, Oregon, in 2023, according to Willamette Week. KPTV reported that Knox announced in December 2025 that the original Cartopia cart would close December 28, 2025, so the business could concentrate on the Gales Creek restaurant.

The episode Man v. Food, Season 5

Episode 7
Aired
What was featured: wood-fired whole chicken and crispy potato ""guns""
How Man v. Food restaurants have fared: 24% closed →

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_and_Guns
  2. kptv.com https://www.kptv.com/2025/12/12/beloved-food-truck-closing-after-10-years-portlands-cartopia/
  3. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/chicken-and-guns-portland
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