Is Southside Market & Barbeque Still Open? Food Paradise Update
Food Paradise, Season 4 Elgin, Texas
Current status
As of October 2026, Southside Market & Barbeque is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: The business's own website lists current weekly hours for the Elgin location, and its Yelp listing (updated September 2026) continues to show it active. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 4
- Aired
- Address 1212 US-290, Elgin, TX 78621
- Website southsidemarket.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
Food Paradise's "Sausage Paradise" (2012, season 4) featured Southside Market & Barbeque's Elgin-style hot-gut sausage, spotlighting the coarse-ground, all-beef links alongside the market's smoked brisket. According to Wikipedia (revised 2026-02-24), Southside Market & Barbeque is a historic barbecue restaurant and meat market in Elgin, Texas, established in 1882, that has since expanded into a multi-location chain. On 2026-09-08, the southsidemarket.com website listed current hours of 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, along with active online ordering for pickup, delivery, and nationwide shipping, indicating the business continues to operate under the same name at its US-290 location in Elgin.
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Sources we checked
- southsidemarket.com https://southsidemarket.com/pages/restaurant-locations/best-bbq-elgin-tx
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southside_Market_%26_Barbeque
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Record fp-0214 · checked by Cal Marchetti.