Is Nosh Kitchen Bar Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Portland, ME)

Food Paradise, Season 17, Episode 1

The Food Paradise episode "Cruisin' the Coasts" (S17E1) featured Nosh Kitchen Bar, an upscale late-night pub in downtown Portland known for oversized specialty burgers and shareable "noshing" plates. Signature items include the Slab burger, built from a NOSH patty stacked between two wedges of pizza with provolone, pesto, and red pepper marinara, plus a foot-long cheesesteak and a 90s-throwback Dunkaroos dessert of animal crackers, frosting, and Lucky Charms marshmallows. The restaurant, at 551 Congress St., has been wrap-free by choice since 2010. According to Yelp, whose listing was updated in August 2026, Nosh Kitchen Bar continues to operate; the restaurant's own website, checked September 8, 2026, listed current hours of 11:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. daily.

Man v. Food, Season 3, Episode 14 Aired September 8, 2010

Nosh Kitchen Bar appeared on Man v. Food's Portland, Maine episode (S3E14), which first aired September 8, 2010. The restaurant is a gastropub on Congress Street in Portland's Arts District, serving comfort food, draft beer, and cocktails. According to the restaurant's own website, noshportland.com, the site lists current hours of 11:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. daily with a kitchen open until midnight, and offers online ordering, as observed in a September 8, 2026 check. Google's business listing for Nosh Kitchen & Bar at 551 Congress St, Portland, separately lists the business status as operational, checked the same day. Both the website and the Google listing show a matching address and phone number, 207-536-4723, corroborating that the restaurant continues to operate at its original Congress Street location.