What Happened to Megu After Food Paradise? (New York, NY)
Food Paradise, Season 1 New York, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, Megu has closed — confirmed via Yelp, July 2026.
What the source shows: A Yelp listing for the Dream Downtown address, updated July 2026, and a separate Gayot listing both mark Megu as permanently closed, even though the host hotel itself remains operational. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 1, Episode 4
- Address 355 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011
- Website hyatt.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
"Steak Paradise" (S1E4) featured Megu, an upscale Japanese restaurant known for Kobe beef, sushi and other Japanese small plates, located inside the Dream Downtown hotel in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. The restaurant relaunched at Dream Downtown after earlier Megu locations in Tribeca and Midtown closed in 2014, with new owner Jon Bakhshi opening a roughly 5,000-square-foot, 145-seat dining room in the hotel's former Cherry Izakaya space, according to Famous Foodies. A Yelp listing for the Dream Downtown address, updated July 2026, marks Megu as permanently closed, and a separate Gayot listing likewise identifies the restaurant as closed. The Dream Downtown hotel itself remains open and operating at the same address, according to Google Places, even though the Japanese restaurant it once housed no longer operates there.
The episode
Also in Season 1
Season 1: 85 of 114 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 3Franktitude
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Ep 4Geno's Steaks
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Best Thing I Ever Ate
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/megu-new-york-3
- gayot.com https://www.gayot.com/restaurants/megu-new-york-ny-10011_1ny160906-03.html
- famousfoodies.com https://www.famousfoodies.com/megu-back-time-dream-hotel/
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Record fp-0035 · checked by Cal Marchetti.