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What Happened to PJ Pies After Food Paradise? (McAllen, TX)

Food Paradise, Season 16 McAllen, Texas

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, PJ Pies has closed — confirmed via Yelp, May 2026.

What the source shows: Re-checked 2026-09-21: pjpiesrgv.com still returns no live page, consistent with the prior HTTP 404 finding; no new information surfaced to contradict the permanently-closed determination from Yelp (May 2026). How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Food Paradise (Travel Channel) featured PJ Pies in the 'Easy as Pie' episode, highlighting the McAllen bakery's handcrafted fruit pies alongside its breakfast and lunch menu. PJ Pies is a Rio Grande Valley bakery cafe that grew out of a home-kitchen mango pie made in 2014 before the business opened a storefront and sold pies at area farmers markets. According to Yelp, updated May 2026, a listing for PJ Pies at 5712 N 10th Street in McAllen marks the business as permanently closed. The bakery's website, pjpiesrgv.com, returned no page when checked on 2026-09-08, consistent with the Yelp closure listing. Other online directories still list the business at a different McAllen address, but those pages show no 2026 dating and were not used to determine current status.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 16

Episode 3
Air date not confirmed
Title: Easy as Pie · What was featured: its handcrafted mango and fruit pies
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Sources we checked 1 reference

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/pj-pies-mcallen
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