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What Happened to Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen After Food Paradise?

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As of September 2026, Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen has closed — confirmed via Yelp, December 2025.

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What the source shows: Yelp's listing for the business is marked permanently closed with an update dated December 2025, matching the CLOSED_PERMANENTLY business status Google Places carried in the packet.

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What happened after Food Paradise?

Food Paradise's 'Passport on a Plate' episode featured Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen, an Irish pub in Astoria, Queens, built around Irish comfort food, cocktails, and a dedicated whiskey bar called The Blacksmith, according to Time Out New York's write-up of the venue. The business operated at 40-11 30th Avenue in Astoria, a residential stretch of northwest Queens a short walk from the Broadway N/W subway stop, before closing. Yelp lists the Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen page as permanently closed, with photos and reviews last updated in December 2025, and Google Places' record for the same address also showed a permanently-closed business status in the same 2026-09-08 data pull. No source located during this research specified an exact closing date or a reason for the closure.

Featured on Food Paradise

Season / episode
Season 10, Episode 5
Original air date
Not confirmed
Episode title
Passport on a Plate
What was featured
Irish pub food, cocktails, and a dedicated whiskey bar
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen

Frequently asked questions

Is Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen has closed — confirmed via Yelp, December 2025.

What happened to Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen after Food Paradise?

Food Paradise's 'Passport on a Plate' episode featured Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen, an Irish pub in Astoria, Queens, built around Irish comfort food, cocktails, and a dedicated whiskey bar called The Blacksmith, according to Time Out New York's write-up of the venue. As of September 2026, Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen has closed — confirmed via Yelp, December 2025.

Is Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen permanently closed?

As of September 2026, Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen has closed — confirmed via Yelp, December 2025. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

Where is Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen located?

40-11 30th Ave, Astoria, NY 11103. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Food Paradise featured Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen?

Season 10, Episode 5 of Food Paradise. The episode is titled “Passport on a Plate”.

What do reviews say since Food Paradise?

Yelp lists the Passage Irish Bar and Kitchen page as permanently closed, with photos and reviews last updated in December 2025, and Google Places' record for the same address also showed a permanently-closed business status in the same 2026-09-08 data pull. We summarise what dated sources report; we do not publish our own rating.

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Visit info

Address
40-11 30th Ave, Astoria, NY 11103
Venue type
bar
Official website
None found

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Sources

  • Yelp — https://www.yelp.com/biz/passage-irish-bar-and-kitchen-astoria-2
  • timeout.com — https://www.timeout.com/newyork/bars/passage-irish-bar-and-kitchen

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