What Happened to K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen After Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2, Episode 9

An episode revisiting culinary classics featured K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, the French Quarter restaurant chef Paul Prudhomme and his wife Kay Hinrichs Prudhomme opened in 1979 at 416 Chartres Street. According to Wikipedia, the restaurant helped introduce Cajun cooking to a national audience and is described there as among the more influential restaurants worldwide. K-Paul's operated at the same French Quarter address under Prudhomme's Cajun-Creole menu for roughly four decades. According to Wikipedia (revised 2026-07-24), the restaurant closed in 2020. The kpauls.com domain, once the restaurant's website, now redirects to Magic Seasoning Blends, the Prudhomme-founded packaged-spice line; a site check on 2026-09-08 found the page selling spice products and still displaying an outdated coronavirus-era notice, with no reference to the restaurant still operating. No replacement restaurant was found operating under the K-Paul's name at the Chartres Street address in available current records.

Food Paradise, Season 4, Episode 16 Aired 2013

Food Paradise's "Soul Food Paradise" episode (S4E16, 2013) featured K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, spotlighting Chef Paul Prudhomme's Cajun and Creole cooking in the French Quarter. According to Wikipedia (revised 2026-07-24), Prudhomme and his wife Kay Hinrichs Prudhomme opened the restaurant in 1979, and it has been credited with helping popularize Cajun cuisine nationally before closing in 2020.