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Is Smitty's Market Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Lockhart, TX)

Food Paradise, Season 1 Lockhart, Texas

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Smitty's Market is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: Smitty's Market's own website is live, displays a 2026 copyright, and lists the same 208 S Commerce St address and phone number; consistent with the prior 2026-09-08 check. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

"Barbecue Paradise" (S1E6) featured Smitty's Market, spotlighting its post-oak smoked brisket and sausage cooked in the market's original pit room. Smitty's Market operates out of a 1924 building in Lockhart, Texas, according to the business's own website, and is run by the family of Edgar "Smitty" Schmidt, who bought the original Kreuz Market business in 1948 before later opening Smitty's. The website, checked 2026-09-08, showed 2026-dated page content along with the shop's Commerce Street address and phone number. Google Places, checked the same day, listed the business as operational. The site described the family as still tending the same fire their father started, continuing to serve barbecue out of the same historic Lockhart building described in the shop's own history section.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 1

Episode 6
Air date not confirmed
Title: Barbecue Paradise · What was featured: Smitty's Market's post-oak smoked brisket in a 1924 pit room
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 1 Food Paradise

Season 1: 85 of 114 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners

All 15 Season 1 episodes →

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Sources we checked 1 reference

  1. smittysmarket.com http://smittysmarket.com/
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