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What Happened to Fancy's on Fifth Oyster Dive & Burger Bar?

Food Paradise, Season 14 Birmingham, Alabama

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Fancy's on Fifth Oyster Dive & Burger Bar has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: A Google Places listing lists the business as permanently closed, and its former domain now hosts unrelated sports-betting content. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

On "Bun-Believable," Fancy's on Fifth Oyster Dive & Burger Bar appeared as a Birmingham, Alabama gastropub combining a raw oyster bar with build-your-own burgers, with the episode focused on the kitchen's burger lineup. The restaurant operated on 41st Street South in Birmingham's Forest Park area, pairing a casual bar atmosphere with a full oyster and seafood menu. A Google Places listing checked 2026-09-08 lists Fancy's on Fifth as permanently closed. The restaurant's former domain, fancyson5th.com, no longer hosts the business's site; when checked the same day it instead served unrelated sports-betting content, with no trace of the original restaurant's pages remaining. No successor restaurant is listed at the same Birmingham address.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 14

Episode 3
Air date not confirmed
Title: Bun-Believable · What was featured: build-your-own burgers and a raw oyster bar
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. fancyson5th.com http://www.fancyson5th.com/
  2. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Fancy%27s+on+Fifth+Birmingham+AL
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Record fp-1088 · checked by Cal Marchetti.