Is El Cholo Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Los Angeles, CA)
Food Paradise, Season 13 Los Angeles, California
Current status
As of October 2026, El Cholo is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 9, 2026.
What the source shows: Google Places marks the location operational and the site's ordering/reservation tools were functioning September 9, 2026, despite some stale 2015-dated text on the page. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 13, Episode 5
- Address 1121 S Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90006
- Website elcholo.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
The episode, 'A Taste of Time' (S13E5), featured El Cholo, a Mexican restaurant at 1121 S. Western Avenue in Los Angeles that bills itself, on its own site, as a family restaurant. Google's business-profile data lists the location as El Cholo - The Original, distinguishing it from the chain's other Southern California branches. Since the episode, elcholo.com remained live with an active online-reservation and ordering feature when checked on September 9, 2026, promoting a limited-time dine-in offer of a molcajete guacamole and two combination plates; Google's listing marked the Western Avenue location operational the same day. Some page text carried an older 2015 date, but the ordering and reservation tools were functioning at the time of the check.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- elcholo.com http://elcholo.com/
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Record fp-1004 · checked by Cal Marchetti.