Is Roli Roti Gourmet Rotisserie Still Open? Man v. Food Update
Man v. Food, Season 8 San Francisco, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Roli Roti Gourmet Rotisserie is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 7, 2026.
What the source shows: The business's own event calendar lists an upcoming San Francisco Ferry Building appearance dated October 22, 2026, and a Yelp listing for the Ferry Building stall separately shows a September 2026 update. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 8, Episode 20
- Aired
- Address 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA 94111
- Website roliroti.com
We have not confirmed map coordinates for this address yet.
What happened after Man v. Food?
Roli Roti Gourmet Rotisserie was a local-flavor stop in Man v. Food's San Francisco episode (Travel Channel, host Casey Webb, aired 2019-11-26), which built its central challenge around a 49-ounce porterhouse steak at a separate steakhouse in the same episode, according to Wikipedia's episode list for the series; the Roli Roti segment instead featured the truck's rotisserie porchetta sandwich. Founded in 2001 by Swiss-trained butcher Thomas Odermatt, Roli Roti describes itself on its own site, roliroti.com, as America's first gourmet rotisserie food truck, built around herb-infused, free-range rotisserie chicken and hand-rolled porchetta. Roli Roti continues to list a recurring stall at the San Francisco Ferry Building on roliroti.com's event calendar, including a dated Ferry Building appearance scheduled for October 22, 2026. A Yelp listing for the Ferry Building location, at 1 Ferry Building, shows reviews updated in September 2026.
The episode
Also in Season 8
Season 8: 70 of 93 still open · 8 renamed, moved or under new owners
- Closed
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Ep 18Ray's Drive Inn
Open - Renamed
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Ep 20Adam's Grub Truck
Open -
Ep 20Vic Stewart's
Relocated - Open
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Ep 21Engine Room
Open - Open
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Sources we checked
- roliroti.com https://roliroti.com/
- roliroti.com https://roliroti.com/event/san-francisco-ferry-building-20/2026-10-22/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/roli-roti-gourmet-rotisserie-san-francisco
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Man_v._Food_episodes
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Record mvf-477 · checked by Cal Marchetti.