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Is Stanton's City Bites Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Houston, TX)

Food Paradise, Season 19 Houston, Texas

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Stanton's City Bites is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 21, 2026.

What the source shows: The restaurant's own website (stantonscitybites.com) now loads successfully, showing current posted hours (Sun 11am-4pm, Tue-Thu 11am-8pm, Fri-Sat 11am-9pm, closed Mon) at 1420 Edwards St, Houston, TX 77007, resolving the access error noted in the prior check. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

The S19E5 episode "Bucket List Burgers" featured Stanton's City Bites' classic hamburger in Houston, Texas. Stanton's City Bites is a burger restaurant on Edwards Street in the Washington Avenue area of Houston that began as a corner grocery store in 1961 before evolving into a burger stand, according to a Yelp business listing for the restaurant. The restaurant's own website returned an access error during an automated check on 2026-09-08 and could not be read directly. According to the Yelp listing (yelp.com/biz/stantons-city-bites-houston), last updated in July 2026, the business listed weekly hours of Tuesday through Thursday 11am to 8pm, Friday and Saturday 11am to 9pm, Sunday 11am to 4pm, and closed on Monday. Visit Houston Texas also carried a current listing for the restaurant at the same Edwards Street address.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 19

Episode 5
Air date not confirmed
Title: Bucket List Burgers · What was featured: its classic Houston hamburger
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 19 Food Paradise

Season 19: 102 of 146 still open · 6 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/stantons-city-bites-houston
  2. visithoustontexas.com https://www.visithoustontexas.com/listings/stantons-city-bites/30193/
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Record fp-1546 · checked by Cal Marchetti.