What Happened to PVDonuts After Food Paradise? (Providence, RI)
Food Paradise, Season 11 Providence, Rhode Island
Current status
As of October 2026, PVDonuts has closed — confirmed via diningandcooking.com, February 2026.
What the source shows: Dining and Cooking reported Feb. 13 2026 that the Wickenden St. shop was temporarily closed with plans to reopen following a 2025 ownership sale; a Yelp listing for the same address was still marked closed as of an August 2026 update, with no independently confirmed reopening found. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 11, Episode 14
- Address 158 Wickenden St, Providence, RI 02903
- Website No current website found
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What happened after Food Paradise?
Food Paradise, Season 11, Episode 14
PV Donuts appeared as the Providence stop on Worth the Wait, showcasing the shop's rotating monthly menu of hand-crafted specialty donuts made fresh daily. Known online as PVDonuts, the shop bills itself as Rhode Island's first specialty donut shop and relocated to 158 Wickenden St. in 2023, according to Dining and Cooking. The original founders sold the business in 2025, per the same report, and Dining and Cooking reported on 2026-02-13 that the Wickenden Street shop had posted, "We are currently closed. We will reopen soon." A site check on 2026-09-09 found pvdonuts.com live with an active online-ordering widget.
Man v. Food, Season 8, Episode 8 Aired
PVDonuts, a Providence specialty doughnut shop that began as a 2016 pop-up before opening a storefront on Ives Street, hosted Casey Webb for its brioche-style doughnuts on Man v. Food's Season 8 Providence episode (aired 2019-08-20). WPRI and Turn to 10 reported in 2023 that PVDonuts left its Ives Street lease and relocated to 158 Wickenden Street. Dining and Cooking reported on February 13, 2026 that founders Lori and Paul Kettelle had sold the business in 2025, and that the Wickenden Street shop was temporarily closed with plans to reopen soon. A Yelp listing for that address was still marked closed as of an August 2026 update, roughly six months later, with no independently confirmed reopening date found by this research.
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Sources we checked
- diningandcooking.com https://www.diningandcooking.com/2512776/in-providence-rosalina-closes-pvdonuts-closed-but-says-will-reopen/
- pvdonuts.com https://www.pvdonuts.com/
- Man v. Food S8E8 (Travel Channel, aired 2019-08-20, per IMDb)
- turnto10.com https://turnto10.com/news/local/pvdonuts-ives-street-fox-point-providence-closing-moving-specialty-doughnuts-lease-special-events
- wpri.com https://www.wpri.com/business-news/pvdonuts-reveals-location-of-new-shop/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/pvdonuts-providence-5
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