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What Happened to Fred's Smokehouse After Food Paradise? (Clermont, KY)

Food Paradise, Season 18 Clermont, Kentucky

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Fred's Smokehouse has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: Google Places marks the business as permanently closed, and a Yelp listing checked 2026-09-08 also displayed a 'Closed' status with no reopening information. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

The 'Hog Wild' episode (S18E7) featured Fred's Smokehouse for its Pulled Pork Nachos and Holiday Mule cocktail, according to Wikipedia's Food Paradise season 18 episode guide. The smokehouse operated on the grounds of the Jim Beam American Stillhouse in Clermont, Kentucky, in a converted barn that once stored the distillery's antique fire engine. It opened on 2013-08-16 and was named for Fred Noe, Jim Beam's seventh-generation master distiller, according to a PR Newswire release announcing the opening. A Google Places listing marks the restaurant as permanently closed. A Yelp listing, checked 2026-09-08, also displayed a 'Closed' status for the business, though neither source gave a specific closure date. No news report describing when or why the smokehouse stopped operating was found in this check.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 18

Episode 7
Air date not confirmed
Title: Hog Wild · What was featured: Pulled Pork Nachos and a Holiday Mule cocktail
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 18 Food Paradise

Season 18: 36 of 54 still open · 2 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/freds-smokehouse-clermont
  2. prnewswire.com https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jim-beam-distillery-opens-freds-smokehouse-219962661.html
  3. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Paradise_season_18
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Record fp-1506 · checked by Cal Marchetti.