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What Happened to Market Bar-B-Que After Food Paradise? (Minneapolis, MN)

Food Paradise, Season 17 Minneapolis, Minnesota

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Market Bar-B-Que has closed — confirmed via fox9.com, September 2025.

What the source shows: News coverage from September 2025 and a Yelp update from mid-2026 show Market Bar-B-Que's brand and building listed for sale and its locations marked permanently closed; the original listing's located match (Rollin' Nolen's BBQ) is a different, unrelated business. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Market Bar-B-Que showcased slow-smoked ribs and brisket from a real brick pit, a technique the family-run barbecue restaurant had used since opening in downtown Minneapolis in 1946. The business later moved to the Eat Street corridor on Nicollet Avenue in the late 1980s and relocated again to Northeast Minneapolis's Lowry Avenue in 2019. According to Fox 9, the restaurant's building, four food trucks, and the Market Bar-B-Que brand were listed for sale in September 2025. Bring Me the News reported around the same time that the restaurant had gone dark while the sale was pending.

A Yelp listing for the Lowry Avenue NE location, updated 2026-06, marks it permanently closed; a separate Yelp listing for the earlier Nicollet Avenue address, updated 2026-08, also marks it permanently closed. The location match auto-generated for this record pointed to Rollin' Nolen's BBQ, a different, unrelated Minneapolis barbecue restaurant a few miles away.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 17

Episode 8
Air date not confirmed
Title: Sights and Bites · What was featured: Wood-pit-smoked ribs and brisket at a historic Minneapolis BBQ joint
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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. fox9.com https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-market-bar-b-que-building-brand-sale-sept-2025
  2. bringmethenews.com https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/minneapolis-restaurant-market-bar-b-que-goes-dark-as-its-listed-for-sale
  3. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/market-bar-b-que-minneapolis-2
  4. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/market-bar-b-que-minneapolis-3
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Record fp-1410 · checked by Cal Marchetti.