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What Happened to Mama's Cantina After Food Paradise? (Seattle, WA)

Food Paradise, Season 10 Seattle, Washington

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Mama's Cantina has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: A Google Maps listing for Mama's Cantina shows the business as permanently closed at the 2nd Avenue address, with no current website or social presence located. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

The episode "Like Mama Made" featured Mama's Cantina, a Mexican-style cantina that the show highlighted for family-recipe-inspired plates evoking home cooking. Mama's Cantina operated from a storefront at 2234 2nd Ave in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, a dense restaurant corridor near downtown Seattle. According to a Google Maps business listing checked on 2026-09-08, Mama's Cantina's status is listed as permanently closed. No current website, delivery listing, or active social media account for the restaurant could be located as of the same date, consistent with the Maps listing.

The 2nd Avenue storefront that once housed Mama's Cantina sits among a mix of restaurants and bars in the Belltown district, and no successor business at the address was identified during this check. The evidence available for this record is limited to the Maps listing itself, since no cached website, delivery-platform page, or news coverage of the closure could be found as of the check date.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 10

Episode 12
Air date not confirmed
Title: Like Mama Made · What was featured: Mexican-style cantina plates evoking family recipes
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Sources we checked 1 reference

  1. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Mama%27s+Cantina+2234+2nd+Ave+Seattle+WA+98121
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Record fp-0731 · checked by Cal Marchetti.