What Happened to Mess Hall Canteen Food truck After Food Paradise?
Food Paradise, Season 17 Garden Grove, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Mess Hall Canteen Food truck has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 2026.
What the source shows: A Yelp listing for the truck's Garden Grove mailing address, updated September 2026, marked Mess Hall Canteen closed, and Google Places, checked 2026-09-08, listed the same business as permanently closed. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 17, Episode 10
- Address 9877 Chapman Ave, Garden Grove, CA 92841
- Website messhallcanteen.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
An S17E10 episode titled "The Comfort Zone" featured Mess Hall Canteen, a Southern California food truck built around loaded tater tots and stacked grilled-cheese sandwiches. According to Roaming Hunger, the truck was started by Don and Jake McPeck, a father-and-son team who drew on Don's military background and Jake's culinary training, and the truck won Food Network's Food Truck Face Off in 2014. The business's registered address was a Garden Grove, CA mailing address rather than a storefront, with service listed as call-ahead-for-location. A Yelp listing for that address, updated September 2026, marked Mess Hall Canteen closed, and Google Places, checked 2026-09-08, listed the same business as permanently closed. No relocation or reopening announcement was found in the sources reviewed, and the truck's social accounts showed no recent activity in the material checked.
The episode
Also in Season 17
Season 17: 69 of 104 still open · 4 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 9B's Cracklin
Closed - Open
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Ep 10Craftsman Row Saloon
Open - Closed
- Renamed
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Ep 10KO Catering and Pies
Closed - Closed
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Ep 10Taylor Gourmet
Closed
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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
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Food Paradise
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Sources we checked
- roaminghunger.com https://roaminghunger.com/mess-hall-canteen/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/mess-hall-canteen-garden-grove-7
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Record fp-1423 · checked by Cal Marchetti.