What Happened to Pork & Mindy's After Food Paradise? (Chicago, IL)
Food Paradise, Season 16 Chicago, Illinois
Current status
As of October 2026, Pork & Mindy's has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: A Google Places listing, updated 2026-09-08, marks Pork & Mindy's Bucktown as permanently closed at its Milwaukee Avenue address in Chicago. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 16, Episode 8
- Address 1623 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
The episode Swine and Dine (S16E8) featured Pork & Mindy's, a barbecue restaurant in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood serving smoked meats in a quick-serve format. The Google Places record for the address lists the business as Pork & Mindy's Bucktown, with an additional service-format qualifier truncated in the source data. A Google Places listing, updated 2026-09-08, marks the location as permanently closed at 1623 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood. No business website was found in the evidence collected for this record, and no dated source indicating a relocation or a successor business at the same Milwaukee Avenue storefront was identified. Bucktown is a residential and commercial neighborhood on Chicago's North Side, and the Milwaukee Avenue corridor there hosts a mix of independent restaurants and retail.
The episode
Also in Season 16
Season 16: 44 of 72 still open · 7 renamed, moved or under new owners
- Closed
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Ep 8Domu
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Ep 8Mercado Taqueria
Closed -
Ep 8Otto Pizza
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Ep 8Smokin' Q's BBQ
Closed - Open
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Ep 8Toups' Meatery
Open - Open
Nearest open restaurants
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Best Thing I Ever Ate
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Food Paradise
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Best Thing I Ever Ate
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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
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Best Thing I Ever Ate
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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Open
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Sources we checked
- Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Pork+%26+Mindy%27s+Bucktown+1623+N+Milwaukee+Ave+Chicago+IL+60647
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Record fp-1337 · checked by Cal Marchetti.