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What Happened to FNG Highlands After Food Paradise? (Denver, CO)

Food Paradise, Season 19 Denver, Colorado Closed June 2022

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, FNG Highlands has closed — confirmed via businessden.com, May 14, 2024.

What the source shows: Google's listing marks the location permanently closed, the restaurant's own website is unreachable, a BusinessDen article dated 2024-05-14 covers a landlord lawsuit tied to the June 2022 closure, and a Yelp page updated 2026-03 still shows the business as permanently closed. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Food Paradise's 'Neighborhood Hangouts' episode featured FNG Highlands, a Denver comfort-food restaurant from chef Troy Guard known for an elevated American menu, cocktails, and a rock-and-roll atmosphere in the West Highland neighborhood. The restaurant operated at 3940 West 32nd Avenue for several years under Guard's ownership. Restaurant Hospitality reported that FNG closed temporarily in the summer of 2021 due to a labor shortage before reopening that October with a revised menu. According to the Denver business news site BusinessDen (2024-05-14), FNG's landlord sued Guard after the restaurant closed permanently in June 2022, alleging he violated a 10-year lease on the space. A Yelp listing updated 2026-03 continued to mark the location as permanently closed, still showing 278 photos and 269 reviews accumulated during the restaurant's run, with no new operator listed at the address.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 19

Episode 29
Air date not confirmed
Title: Neighborhood Hangouts · What was featured: Elevated American comfort food and cocktails at a West Highland neighborhood spot
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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. businessden.com https://businessden.com/2024/05/14/guard-sued-by-landlord-over-2022-fng-restaurant-closure/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/fng-restaurant-denver
  3. restaurant-hospitality.com https://www.restaurant-hospitality.com/new-restaurants/troy-guard-s-fng-restaurant-reopens-in-denver-after-labor-shortage-forced-a-closure
  4. fngrestaurant.com https://www.fngrestaurant.com/
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Record fp-1646 · checked by Cal Marchetti.