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What Happened to Iguana's Taqueria After Food Paradise? (San Jose, CA)

Food Paradise, Season 14 San Jose, California Closed 2025

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Iguana's Taqueria has closed — confirmed via hoodline.com, July 24, 2025.

What the source shows: Hoodline reported the Orozco family closed Iguanas Home Of The Burritozilla for good on 2025-07-27 after 32 years, and the restaurant's website now returns a 404 error. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise? 2 episodes

Food Paradise, Season 14, Episode 5

Iguanas Home Of The Burritozilla, a family-owned Mexican restaurant founded in San Jose in 1994, appeared in the Food Paradise episode "Apps Download" (S14E6), which showcased its five-pound "Burritozilla" burrito — the same dish Joey Chestnut once ate on camera for Man v. Food. Hoodline and KRON4 reported that the restaurant's downtown San Jose location, at 330 S 3rd St, closed on July 27, 2025, after 32 years in business, as owners the Orozco family retired and relocated to Texas, following earlier closures of the chain's East San Jose and Santa Clara locations.

Man v. Food, Season 1, Episode 15 Aired

The episode featured Iguana's Taqueria's signature Burritozilla, a five-pound burrito served as an eating challenge. Iguanas Home Of The Burritozilla was a taqueria in downtown San Jose, California, run by the Orozco family for 32 years. According to Hoodline (2025-07-24), the family decided to retire the Iguanas brand to pursue new projects, and the downtown location at 330 South Third Street closed for good on 2025-07-27. Hoodline reported the family had also opened a location in San Antonio, Texas, earlier in 2025 before closing the original California restaurants.

Google Places listed the business as permanently closed, and the restaurant's website, burritozilla.com, returned a 404 error when checked 2026-09-08, with no working page found for the business. No successor business was reported at the downtown Third Street address as of the same check.

The episodes Food Paradise

Episode 5
Air date not confirmed
Title: Food Paradise XL · What was featured: 5-pound 'Burritozilla' giant burrito
Man v. Food, Season 1, Episode 15
Aired
What was featured: the five-pound Burritozilla burrito eating challenge
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. hoodline.com https://hoodline.com/2025/07/end-of-an-era-san-jose-s-beloved-iguanas-home-of-the-burritozilla-to-close-after-32-years/
  2. kron4.com https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-jose-restaurant-known-for-5-pound-burritozilla-to-close-after-32-years/
  3. burritozilla.com http://www.burritozilla.com/
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