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What Happened to Meatzilla! After Food Paradise? (Los Angeles, CA)

Food Paradise, Season 15 Los Angeles, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Meatzilla! has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's Downtown LA listing for Meatzilla! carries a "CLOSED" tag as of an August 2026 update; Wikipedia's Man v. Food season 6 page separately reports that Yelp, TripAdvisor and Foursquare users flagged the same closure after the episode aired. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise? 2 episodes

Food Paradise, Season 15, Episode 5

Food Paradise (Travel Channel) featured Meatzilla!'s burgers in the episode 'Street Eats,' which aired February 25, 2018, according to IMDb. Meatzilla! is a burger restaurant in downtown Los Angeles known for charbroiled, hand-formed patties made from antibiotic- and hormone-free Angus beef.

Man v. Food, Season 6, Episode 1 Aired

Casey Webb's Los Angeles episode also stopped at Meatzilla!, a Downtown LA restaurant on South Main Street known for oversized burgers and sandwiches, according to Stuff in LA. Webb took on the "Beef Beef Burger," two five-ounce Angus patties topped with melted American and Muenster, sliced pickles, onions and Sriracha ketchup, capped "Meatza style" with a personal pepperoni-and-cheese pizza standing in for the top bun. The episode aired December 4, 2017, as part of the show's second season under host Casey Webb, per Wikipedia's Man v. Food season 6 page. That page also reported that Yelp, TripAdvisor and Foursquare users flagged the restaurant's closure after the episode aired. Yelp's own listing for the address carries a "CLOSED" tag as of an August 2026 update, consistent with those posts.

The episodes Food Paradise

Episode 5
Air date not confirmed
Title: Street Eats · What was featured: Meatzilla!'s charbroiled burgers on Street Eats
Man v. Food, Season 6, Episode 1
Aired
What was featured: Beef Beef Burger with pizza-topped bun, Meatza style
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Season 15: 77 of 104 still open · 6 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 6 references

  1. imdb.com https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8115490/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/meatzilla-los-angeles
  3. meatzilla-la.com https://meatzilla-la.com/
  4. stuffinla.com https://stuffinla.com/meatzilla-downtown-la-dtla-hamburger-restaurant/
  5. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_v._Food_(season_6)
  6. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/meatzillalosangeles/videos/man-v-food-meatzilla/922903724541504/
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