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What Happened to Dirt Dog After Food Paradise? (Los Angeles, CA)

Food Paradise, Season 17 Los Angeles, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Dirt Dog has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: A Google Places listing marks the business as permanently closed, and its website, though returning HTTP 200, displays only broken website-builder code rather than a functioning menu or hours page. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Food Paradise's "Fast Food Finds" episode featured Dirt Dog, a hot dog restaurant with locations in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, at its Los Angeles address of 2528 South Figueroa Street, near the University of Southern California campus. According to a Google Places listing checked on 2026-09-08, the business is marked permanently closed at that address. The domain dirtdogla.com still returned an HTTP 200 response on 2026-09-08, but the page displayed only broken website-builder code and formatting artifacts rather than a working menu, hours, or ordering page, and no 2026-dated content was found there. Nothing in the sources reviewed for this entry showed current operation at the Figueroa Street address, and no functioning online ordering system could be located for the business under its former domain.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 17

Episode 7
Air date not confirmed
Title: Fast Food Finds · What was featured: the stand's LA-style hot dogs
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 17 Food Paradise

Season 17: 69 of 104 still open · 4 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Dirt+Dog+2528+S+Figueroa+St+Los+Angeles+CA+90007
  2. dirtdogla.com http://www.dirtdogla.com/
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Record fp-1400 · checked by Cal Marchetti.