What Happened to Southern Hot Chicken & Sandwiches After Food Paradise?
Food Paradise, Season 11 St. Louis, Missouri
Current status
As of October 2026, Southern Hot Chicken & Sandwiches has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: Google Places listed the business status for Southern as permanently closed, and the restaurant's own website, while still loading, contained only historical content referencing 2015 with no current hours or online ordering. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 11, Episode 13
- Address 3108 Olive St, St. Louis, MO 63103
- Website stlsouthern.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
In the 'Chow Down Meat Town' episode (S11E13), the show visited Southern Hot Chicken & Sandwiches, a fried-chicken restaurant in St. Louis, Missouri. The restaurant's own site credits a team of chefs, including the pitmaster from Pappy's Smokehouse, with developing Southern's fried-chicken marinade and breading, and describes Southern as having been one of St. Louis's most anticipated restaurant openings in 2015. According to Google Places, the business listing for Southern is marked permanently closed. The restaurant's website still loads, but checked on 2026-09-08 it carried no ordering widget and no content newer than the 2015 opening-era text described above, so it does not indicate current operation; per the site-check evidence, an old site that still loads is not treated as proof a business remains open. No specific closure date attributable to a named source was found in the evidence reviewed.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- stlsouthern.com https://www.stlsouthern.com/
- Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Southern+Hot+Chicken+St+Louis+MO
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Record fp-0846 · checked by Cal Marchetti.