What Happened to Mac Shack After Food Paradise? (Brooklyn, NY)
Food Paradise, Season 7 Brooklyn, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, Mac Shack has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.
What the source shows: Yelp's listing for the Fulton St address, updated August 2026, shows Mac Shack as closed, while Black-Owned Brooklyn's profile describes the mac-and-cheese concept opening there in 2012. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 7, Episode 3
- Address 901 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11238
- Website macshackny.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
The episode centered on Mac Shack's build-your-own macaroni and cheese, where diners choose from cheeses such as cheddar, Gouda, fontina, and Swiss and add toppings like pulled pork, bacon, or vegetables for a customized bowl drawn from more than twenty named combinations, many named after Brooklyn neighborhoods. According to Black-Owned Brooklyn, Mac Shack opened as a mac-and-cheese restaurant in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood in 2012, sourcing ingredients from local vendors where possible. Yelp's listing for the Fulton Street address, updated in August 2026, shows the restaurant as closed. A second Mac Shack location on Malcolm X Boulevard in Bed-Stuy is listed separately on Yelp, updated March 2026, though its current operating status was not independently confirmed for this record covering the Fulton Street original.
The episode
Also in Season 7
Season 7: 34 of 48 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 2B.A.D. Burger
Closed - Closed
- Closed
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Ep 3Five Fifty-Five
Closed - Open
- Closed
- Closed
- Relocated
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Food Paradise
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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/mac-shack-brooklyn
- blackownedbrooklyn.com https://www.blackownedbrooklyn.com/stories/macshack
- macshackny.com https://www.macshackny.com/about/
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Record fp-0466 · checked by Cal Marchetti.