Is El Pub Restaurant Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Miami, FL)

Part 1 — Season 9, Episode 11

In the Season 9 episode 'Iconic Eats', the show featured El Pub Restaurant, a Cuban restaurant in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood known for classic Cuban sandwiches and traditional Cuban entrees. The restaurant operates on Southwest 8th Street, in the heart of Calle Ocho, Miami's historic Cuban-American commercial corridor. According to the restaurant's own website, its server returned an HTTP last-modified date of September 9, 2026, the same day this record was checked, indicating the site is actively maintained rather than dormant. The page identifies the business as 'El Pub Restaurant' and 'Cuban Restaurant Little Havana' in its own title tag. No independent news coverage describing a closure, sale, or relocation was found for the Southwest 8th Street location.

Part 2 — Season 11, Episode 12

Food Paradise's "Destination Dining" episode (S11E12) featured El Pub Restaurant, part of the show's tour of destination dining spots. El Pub is a Cuban restaurant at 1548 Southwest 8th Street in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood; the episode credited it to Miami Beach, but the address places it in Miami proper, along Calle Ocho. A check of the restaurant's own website, elpubrestaurant.com, on 2026-09-08 returned an HTTP 200 response with a Last-Modified header dated 2026-09-09, and the site included a working online ordering link, though the page text carried no explicit copyright year. The page title identifies the business as a Cuban restaurant in Little Havana. No additional independent source beyond the restaurant's own website was located for this update.