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What Happened to Sticky's Finger Joint After Food Paradise? (New York, NY)

Food Paradise, Season 11 New York, New York

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Sticky's Finger Joint has closed — confirmed via nrn.com, April 26, 2024.

What the source shows: Nation's Restaurant News reported 2024-04-26 that Sticky's parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and had already shuttered several restaurants, and Yelp listings for sister Sticky's Finger Joint locations show closed. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Sticky's Finger Joint appeared in the episode 'Handheld Happiness' for its fried chicken fingers and hand-breaded chicken sandwiches, the New York City chain's signature format. The location featured sat at 85 Orchard St on Manhattan's Lower East Side. According to Nation's Restaurant News, Sticky's parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 2024-04-26, citing pandemic-related financial strain, and had by then already closed several restaurants and a ghost kitchen. Yelp listings for other Sticky's Finger Joint locations around Manhattan, including 1450 Broadway and 31 W 8th St, were marked permanently closed by 2026, with updates dated as recently as August and September 2026. A site check on 2026-09-08 found no working website tied to the Orchard Street address; Google Places instead matched that address to an unrelated business, Sticky Rice, whose own website also returned no page when checked the same day.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 11

Episode 2
Air date not confirmed
Title: Handheld Happiness · What was featured: Fried chicken tenders and hand-breaded chicken sandwiches
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. nrn.com https://www.nrn.com/fast-casual/parent-of-new-york-city-based-chicken-finger-concept-sticky-s-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/stickys-finger-joint-new-york-13
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