Is Lou Malnati's Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Chicago, IL)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, All-Star, Episode 2

The 'Pizza and Burgers' All-Star episode of Best Thing I Ever Ate highlighted Lou Malnati's deep-dish pizza, the buttery, cheese-forward pie the Chicago chain built its name on. Lou Malnati's is a pizzeria chain headquartered in Chicago, and this location sits in the South Loop at 805 South State Street. The restaurant's own website, checked 2026-09-08, returned a live 2026 site with menu, hours, catering and event-booking pages and no indication of closure. Yelp's listing for the South Loop address, updated in September 2026, showed roughly 3,475 reviews and nearly 3,900 photos, consistent with a location seeing regular customer traffic. Together the two independently maintained sources point to a pizzeria still serving guests at this address.

Food Paradise, Season 1, Episode 2

The episode featured Lou Malnati's Chicago-style deep-dish pizza, prepared at the River North location on North Wells Street. Lou Malnati's own website, checked on 2026-09-08, carried 2026-dated content, listed current hours, and offered active online ordering for the River North restaurant. A Google Places listing checked the same day recorded the North Wells Street address as operational. This appearance is treated as the same Lou Malnati's business already documented in the database under a separate record.

You Gotta Eat Here!, Season 3, Episode 25 Aired July 4, 2014

Lou Malnati's Pizzeria, a Chicago deep-dish pizza company, appeared in the 'Chicago Edition' episode of You Gotta Eat Here! (Season 3, episode 25) that aired 2014-07-04. TVmaze's episode listing names deep-dish pizza as the featured dish. TVFoodMaps lists Lou Malnati's Pizzeria among its You Gotta Eat Here restaurants, describing it as a Chicago-based pizzeria featured on several TV shows; that page shows no air date or location. The company's own website says the Malnati family has made Chicago-style deep dish for more than 50 years and that the business started in Lincolnwood, Illinois, in 1971.

The episode listing does not say which Lou Malnati's location was filmed. The company's South Loop page, at 805 S. State Street, carries a 2026 copyright and lists hours of 11 am to 11 pm on most days (loumalnatis.com, viewed 2026-10-20).