What Happened to Rye American Bistro After Food Paradise? (Brooklyn, NY)
Food Paradise, Season 4 Brooklyn, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, Rye American Bistro has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.
What the source shows: Yelp's listing for the Brooklyn restaurant, updated August 2026, lists it as closed; the original listing's original location match was a same-named but unrelated business in a different town. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 9
- Aired
- Address 247 S 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
- Website ryegrill.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
Food Paradise's 2012 'Meatloaf Paradise' episode featured a meatloaf dish from the Brooklyn restaurant then known as Rye American Bistro. The restaurant, chef-owned by Cal Elliott, operated as an American restaurant in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, on South 1st Street, and later did business simply as Rye. Yelp's listing for the restaurant, updated in August 2026, lists it as closed. Time Out's restaurant listing for the business is separately marked closed. No 2026-dated hours, menu, or ordering information were found on an active Rye website or social account during this check. The location initially returned for this record corresponded to an unrelated restaurant in the village of Rye, New York, roughly 30 miles away, not the Brooklyn business featured on the show.
The episode
Also in Season 4
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Ep 9Neptune Diner
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Ep 9Suppenküche
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/rye-brooklyn
- timeout.com https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/rye
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Record fp-0255 · checked by Cal Marchetti.