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What Happened to Minnesota State Fair After Food Paradise? (St Paul, MN)

Food Paradise, Special St Paul, Minnesota

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Minnesota State Fair is an annual fair or festival, featured on Food Paradise (2012) -- a seasonal event, not a year-round restaurant.

What the source shows: Minnesota State Fair is an annual state fair in St Paul, MN, featured on Food Paradise's "State Fair Foods Paradise" episode (2012); it is a seasonal event, not a year-round restaurant. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

In the special 'State Fair Foods Paradise' (2012), the show visited food vendors at the Minnesota State Fair, one of the country's best-known showcases for state-fair cuisine. According to Wikipedia's Minnesota State Fair entry, revised 2026-09-08, the fair runs twelve days from late August into early September and is promoted under the nickname the Great Minnesota Get-Together, ranking as the largest U.S. state fair by average daily attendance and the second-largest by total attendance behind the State Fair of Texas. The fairgrounds sit in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, between St. Paul and Minneapolis.

According to the fair's official website, checked 2026-09-08, the site displayed a live countdown to the Aug. 26-Sept. 6, 2027 fair alongside pages for tickets, maps, hours, and accessibility guides. Google Places lists the fairgrounds at 1265 Snelling Avenue North as operational.

The episode Food Paradise, Special

Episode 211
Aired
Title: State Fair Foods Paradise · What was featured: Iconic fair-food vendors at the Minnesota State Fair
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. mnstatefair.org http://www.mnstatefair.org/
  2. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_State_Fair
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Record fp-1663 · checked by Cal Marchetti.