Is Lardo Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Portland, OR)

Food Paradise, Season 8, Episode 5

This episode featured Lardo, spotlighting its pork belly sandwiches and other Portland-style sandwich-shop cooking built around 'bringing fatback' to the sandwich counter. The Hawthorne Boulevard location sits in Southeast Portland and operates alongside the brand's other Portland-area sandwich shops under the same ownership. The restaurant's own website, checked, listed active online ordering, gift-card sales, and a gallery of the shop's food and space, along with contact information routed through [email protected]. The site's copyright and page content skewed toward 2023, so this appearance record relies on the sandwich shop's continued presence in the database's existing record rather than any newer confirmation gathered here. The name and Hawthorne Boulevard address match the business already documented in the database, and this appearance adds the show's episode to that existing listing's history rather than creating a new entry.

Man v. Food, Season 5, Episode 7 Aired August 28, 2017

Man v. Food's fifth season stopped at Lardo, a Portland sandwich shop built around pork- and beef-forward combinations such as the Dirty Pork Sandwich and a Korean pork shoulder sandwich. Lardo opened its first two Portland locations in the Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood and downtown's West End before adding a third shop on North Williams Avenue in 2014; that North Portland location closed in 2016, and the West End shop closed in 2024, according to Eater Portland. The Hawthorne Boulevard restaurant featured on the show remains the flagship, and Lardo has since expanded into vendor spots at the Moda Center, added in 2023, and Portland International Airport. Portland Monthly included the Korean pork shoulder sandwich among the city's "most iconic" dishes in a 2025 list, and the Oregonian reported on Lardo's participation in Portland's 2026 Dumpling Week event.

You Gotta Eat Here!, Season 4, Episode 2 Aired February 6, 2015

Season 4, episode 2 of You Gotta Eat Here! aired on 2015-02-06 under the title "Lardo, Priddis View, Shuswap Pie Company." TheTVDB's episode overview, read 2026-10-19, says host John Catucci celebrates fat-forward cooking at Lardo, while TVmaze lists the same episode with no summary text. Neither page names the city of the Lardo segment, and the episode pairs it with restaurants in Alberta and British Columbia, so the link to the Portland, Oregon shop rests on the shared name alone. The Portland business's own About page (lardosandwiches.com, read 2026-10-19) describes a pork-focused sandwich shop that chef and owner Rick Gencarelli opened as a food cart in September 2010 and that now operates on both sides of the river. The page lists pork-drenched double burgers, a giant meatball banh mi, and hand-cut fries smothered in pork, and it does not mention the television show.