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Is Clay Pit Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Austin, TX)

Food Paradise, Season 15 Austin, Texas

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Clay Pit is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 21, 2026.

What the source shows: Re-checked 2026-09-21: the business's own official site (claypit.com) is live with a real-time hours widget, a matching address (1601 Guadalupe St), a current happy-hour promotion, and active Toast reservations/ordering. Source upgraded from Yelp (secondary) to the business's own site (primary, current). How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Food Paradise (Travel Channel) featured Clay Pit's contemporary Indian tandoor cooking in the episode 'Feast From The East,' which aired February 18, 2018, according to IMDb; the episode highlighted the restaurant's Boti Kebab, chunks of lamb marinated in Indian chili, with owner Balinder Singh and executive chef Navdeep Singh appearing. Clay Pit has operated in downtown Austin since 1998, housed in the historic Bertram Building on Guadalupe Street. Since the episode, the business has continued operating at the same address: a Yelp business listing updated in June 2026 showed Clay Pit active, with more than 2,100 reviews and over 1,100 photos posted for the Guadalupe Street location. The restaurant's own website, claypit.com, continued to list the Bertram Building address and tandoor-focused menu, though it did not load during an automated check on 2026-09-08. Clay Pit remains one of downtown Austin's longer-running Indian restaurants.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 15

Episode 4
Air date not confirmed
Title: Feast From The East · What was featured: Clay Pit's tandoor-cooked contemporary Indian dishes on Feast From The East
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. imdb.com https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8055094/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/clay-pit-austin
  3. claypit.com https://claypit.com/
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Record fp-1202 · checked by Cal Marchetti.