What Happened to Forcella After Food Paradise? (Brooklyn, NY)
Food Paradise, Season 4 Brooklyn, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, Forcella has closed — confirmed via Yelp, March 2026.
What the source shows: A Yelp listing updated in March 2026 shows the original Williamsburg Forcella location as permanently closed; the Google listing originally matched to it is an unrelated same-named restaurant in Boston. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 18
- Aired
- Address 485 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
- Website forcellaboston.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
On Food Paradise's 2013 episode 'Deep Fried Paradise 3: Grease is the Word' (Travel Channel), the show visited Forcella in New York City, spotlighting the restaurant's fried montanara pizza — dough that is deep-fried before being topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella, and basil and finished in a wood-fired oven. Forcella is a Neapolitan-style pizzeria founded by pizzaiolo Giulio Adriani in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that billed the montanara as the original New York fried pizza and later expanded to additional New York City locations, including one on the Bowery in Manhattan. A Yelp listing for the chain's original Williamsburg location, at 485 Lorimer Street, updated in March 2026, marks that location permanently closed. The episode paired Forcella's fried pizza with other deep-fried specialties featured across the same broadcast.
The episode
Also in Season 4
Season 4: 134 of 199 still open · 12 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 17Carnegie Deli
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Ep 18Beer Belly
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Ep 18Dos Diablos
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Ep 18Funnelicious
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Ep 18Ozona Grill & Bar
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Ep 18Sumo Grub
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/forcella-brooklyn-4
- glenwoodnyc.com https://www.glenwoodnyc.com/manhattan-living/forcella-fried-pizza-bowery-new-york-pizza-restaurant/
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Record fp-0327 · checked by Cal Marchetti.