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What Happened to Durgin-Park After Man v. Food? (Boston, MA)

Man v. Food, Season 6 Boston, Massachusetts Closed January 2019

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Durgin-Park has closed — confirmed via wgbh.org, January 14, 2019.

What the source shows: WGBH News reported that Durgin-Park closed in January 2019 after nearly 200 years in business, with the owners citing declining profitability as the reason. How we decide a status →

  • Episode Season 6, Episode 2
  • Aired
  • Address 340 Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston, MA 02109
  • Website No current website found

We have not confirmed map coordinates for this address yet.

What happened after Man v. Food?

In the same Boston episode, Casey Webb took on a 2.5-pound, plate-sized prime rib challenge at Durgin-Park, a Yankee-style restaurant that had operated at Faneuil Hall Marketplace since the 1820s, according to Metro US's coverage of the episode. The restaurant traced its name to 1827, when a customer named Eldridge Park bought it together with local merchants John Durgin and John Chandler, per Wikipedia's Durgin-Park entry. The Boston stop aired December 4, 2017. WGBH News reported that Durgin-Park closed in January 2019 after nearly 200 years in business, with the owners citing declining profitability as the reason.

The Faneuil Hall Marketplace space it occupied has since been sold, per the same report. Because the historic marketplace's block-style address could not be matched by either the Census geocoder or OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service, coordinates for the site are marked pending rather than estimated.

The episode Man v. Food, Season 6

Episode 2
Aired
What was featured: 2.5-pound plate-sized prime rib challenge
How Man v. Food restaurants have fared: 24% closed →

Also in Season 6 Man v. Food

Season 6: 25 of 43 still open · 2 renamed, moved or under new owners

All 14 Season 6 episodes →

All 134 TV restaurants in Massachusetts →

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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. metro.us https://www.metro.us/man-v-food-host-tackles-bostons-food-challenges/
  2. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_v._Food_(season_6)
  3. wgbh.org https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2019/01/14/after-nearly-200-years-bostons-durgin-park-restaurant-is-no-more
  4. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durgin-Park
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