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What Happened to Gold Cash Gold After Food Paradise? (Detroit, MI)

Food Paradise, Season 19 Detroit, Michigan

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Gold Cash Gold has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.

What the source shows: A Yelp listing for Gold Cash Gold was updated in August 2026 marking it permanently closed, and Deadline Detroit and Crain's Detroit Business both reported the restaurant's closure; an initial Google Places match was a different, unrelated business. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

The episode featured Gold Cash Gold's farm-to-table American menu with Southern touches, including fried chicken, bone marrow dumplings, and cassoulet-stuffed quail, according to The Infatuation. Gold Cash Gold was a restaurant at 2100 Michigan Ave in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood, housed in a former pawn shop building that Deadline Detroit reported cost nearly $2 million to renovate. Crain's Detroit Business and Deadline Detroit reported that Gold Cash Gold was closing after roughly five years in business, citing increased competition and a lack of the foot traffic that downtown and Midtown Detroit restaurants draw. A Yelp listing for the restaurant was updated in August 2026 and continues to mark it permanently closed.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 19

Episode 3
Air date not confirmed
Title: Totally Unexpected · What was featured: farm-to-table American cooking with Southern touches in a former pawn shop
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 19 Food Paradise

Season 19: 102 of 146 still open · 6 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. deadlinedetroit.com https://deadlinedetroit.com/articles/24119/detroit_s_gold_cash_gold_to_close_citing_increased_competition
  2. crainsdetroit.com https://www.crainsdetroit.com/restaurants/gold-cash-gold-restaurant-corktown-close
  3. theinfatuation.com https://www.theinfatuation.com/detroit/reviews/gold-cash-gold
  4. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/gold-cash-gold-detroit
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