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Is Green Door Tavern Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Chicago, IL)

Food Paradise, Season 13 Chicago, Illinois

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Green Door Tavern is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 9, 2026.

What the source shows: Wikipedia dates the tavern to 1921 in a wood-frame building from 1872, and the operator's own site plus Google Places both show it operating as of the September 2026 check. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

The episode, 'A Taste of Time' (S13E5), spotlighted the Green Door Tavern's standing as one of Chicago's most historic watering holes. According to Wikipedia (revised 2026-05-28), the tavern is reputedly Chicago's oldest surviving drinking establishment, opened in 1921 inside a wood-frame building that James McCole built in 1872, one year after the Great Chicago Fire, using a construction style later outlawed in the city's Central Business District. The business describes itself, on its own site, as a River North bar and restaurant at 678 N. Orleans Street. Since the episode, the tavern's own website (greendoorchicago.com) has kept an online-ordering feature live and was last updated September 9, 2026, according to a site check that day; Google's business-profile data listed the tavern as operational on the same date.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 13

Episode 5
Air date not confirmed
Title: A Taste of Time · What was featured: the tavern's 1872 wood-frame building and 1921 opening as a bar
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. greendoorchicago.com https://www.greendoorchicago.com/
  2. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Door_Tavern
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Record fp-1001 · checked by Cal Marchetti.