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Is Little Nonna's Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Philadelphia, PA)

Food Paradise, Season 19 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Little Nonna's is open — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.

What the source shows: The restaurant's own website returns HTTP 200 with current dinner hours and an ordering widget, and a Yelp listing updated 2026-08 shows more than 1,500 reviews and continuing activity, together indicating the restaurant remains open. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Food Paradise's 'Neighborhood Hangouts' episode featured Little Nonna's, an Italian-American restaurant from chefs Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran in Philadelphia's Midtown Village. The 40-seat dining room is designed to evoke an Italian grandmother's living room, with vintage lace curtains, antique copper pots, and homestyle dishes served alongside an all-Italian wine list. The restaurant has operated at 1234 Locust Street since opening under Turney and Safran. A Yelp listing updated 2026-08 showed the restaurant still active, with more than 1,500 reviews and photos posted through that month.

Little Nonna's own website, last modified 2026-05-28 according to server records, listed Sunday dinner hours of 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and an online ordering option. Tripadvisor and OpenTable also carried current listings for the restaurant during the same period, with no closure or ownership change reported anywhere.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 19

Episode 29
Air date not confirmed
Title: Neighborhood Hangouts · What was featured: Homestyle Italian-American dinners in a vintage grandmother's-living-room dining room
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 19 Food Paradise

Season 19: 102 of 146 still open · 6 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/little-nonnas-philadelphia
  2. littlenonnas.com https://littlenonnas.com/
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Record fp-1647 · checked by Cal Marchetti.