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What Happened to Papa's Soul Food Kitchen and BBQ? (Eugene, OR)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 21 Eugene, Oregon Closed November 2017

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Papa's Soul Food Kitchen and BBQ has closed — confirmed via nbc16.com, November 3, 2017.

What the source shows: NBC16 reported on 2017-11-03 that the 15-year-old Whiteaker-neighborhood restaurant would permanently close that weekend, and a Yelp listing for the Blair Boulevard address, updated 2026-02, still marks it permanently closed. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

On the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives episode 'Chicken Chowfest' (aired 2014-11-28), Papa's Soul Food Kitchen and BBQ showed off its Cajun, Creole, and classic Southern soul food alongside slow-smoked barbecue, built on family recipes passed down from the Deep South. The restaurant operated for 15 years on Blair Boulevard in Eugene, Oregon's Whiteaker neighborhood, building its reputation on family recipes carried forward from the Deep South and becoming a well-known neighborhood fixture. NBC16's coverage of the closure described the restaurant as a longtime fixture of the local food scene.

NBC16 reported on 2017-11-03 that the restaurant would permanently close that same weekend, after a decade and a half in business. A Yelp listing for the Blair Boulevard address, updated 2026-02, still shows the business marked as permanently closed, with no successor restaurant at the address identified among the sources reviewed.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 21

Episode 11
Aired
Title: Chicken Chowfest · What was featured: Cajun, Creole, and Southern soul food with slow-smoked barbecue
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. nbc16.com https://nbc16.com/news/local/the-iconic-papas-soul-food-kitchen-a-final-goodbye
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/papas-soul-food-kitchen-eugene
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