What Happened to Grand Champion BBQ After Food Paradise? (Roswell, GA)
Food Paradise, Season 18 Roswell, Georgia
Current status
As of October 2026, Grand Champion BBQ has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.
What the source shows: Yelp listings for two separate Roswell, GA addresses tied to Grand Champion BBQ — 4401 Shallowford Rd (updated August 2026) and 982 Canton St (updated June 2026) — are both marked 'CLOSED' in their page titles, while the brand's Mableton location and gcbbq.com domain now display different 'Owens & Co' branding. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 18, Episode 3
- Address 4401 Shallowford Rd, Roswell, GA 30075
- Website gcbbq.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
Food Paradise's "Most Valuable Plates" episode (S18E3) featured Grand Champion BBQ, a Roswell, Georgia barbecue restaurant built around competition-style smoked meats. Grand Champion BBQ operated more than one Roswell address over the years, including spots on Canton Street and Shallowford Road. According to Yelp, the Shallowford Road location's page, updated August 2026, and the Canton Street location's page, updated June 2026, both carry a "CLOSED" marker in their listing titles. Separately, the gcbbq.com domain once tied to the brand now redirects to a barbecue business branded "Owens & Co," operating from a Mableton, Georgia address rather than Roswell, suggesting the surviving portion of the business rebranded away from the Roswell restaurant the episode featured. No source found during this check described a Roswell reopening, and no named news outlet with a date was located describing the closures directly, so the closure is attributed here to the two dated Yelp listings.
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Record fp-1472 · checked by Cal Marchetti.