What Happened to Martha Lou's Kitchen After Food Paradise?
Food Paradise, Season 4 Charleston, South Carolina
Current status
As of October 2026, Martha Lou's Kitchen has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: Google Places lists the business as permanently closed, and its former website domain now hosts unrelated third-party content rather than the restaurant's own site. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 16
- Aired
- Address 1068 Morrison Dr, Charleston, SC 29403
- Website marthalouskitchen.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
Food Paradise's "Soul Food Paradise" episode (S4E16, 2013) featured Martha Lou's Kitchen, spotlighting the Charleston kitchen's soul food plates such as fried chicken, lima beans, and other home-style Southern sides served from a small storefront on Morrison Drive that had operated for decades under founder Martha Lou Gadsden. Google Places lists the business as permanently closed. When checked on 2026-09-08, the restaurant's former web address, marthalouskitchen.com, no longer led to the business's own site; instead it resolved to an unrelated third-party gambling-promotion page, with no remaining trace of the restaurant's original content or menu. No other current source describing the restaurant's operations, ownership, or exact closure date was found in the available evidence, leaving the closure dated only to the Places flag itself.
The episode
Also in Season 4
Season 4: 134 of 199 still open · 12 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 16Fu-Fu Cuisine
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Ep 16Mama Dip's Kitchen
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Ep 16Mary Mac's Tea Room
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Sources we checked
- Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=32.809678,-79.9454275
- marthalouskitchen.com http://marthalouskitchen.com/
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Record fp-0313 · checked by Cal Marchetti.