What Happened to Sweet Martha's Cookie Jar @ Minnesota State Fair?
Food Paradise, Season 8 Falcon Heights, Minnesota
Current status
As of October 2026, Sweet Martha's Cookie Jar @ Minnesota State Fair was a seasonal concession at a fair or festival -- not a year-round restaurant, and it does not operate as a standalone business.
What the source shows: Sweet Martha's Cookie Jar is a concession at the Minnesota State Fair, featured on Food Paradise's "Minnesota State Fair" episode; it serves only during the annual fair, not as a year-round restaurant. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 8, Episode 1
- Address 1710 Carnes Ave, Falcon Heights, MN 55108
- Website sweetmarthas.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
Food Paradise's Minnesota State Fair episode featured Sweet Martha's Cookie Jar, the fairgrounds stand known for baking its chocolate-chip cookies to order and serving them warm by the bucketful. Sweet Martha's has operated at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in Falcon Heights since 1979, advertising that its cookies come oven hot and baked on the spot. According to the stand's own website, checked 2026-09-09 and carrying a 2026 copyright notice, the site remains live with sections covering its history, frozen cookie dough sales, employment, and an online shop, along with an active ordering feature. Google Places lists the business as temporarily closed, which reflects the stand's normal seasonal operation -- open only during the annual fair -- rather than a permanent closure.
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Sources we checked
- sweetmarthas.com http://www.sweetmarthas.com/
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Record fp-0500 · checked by Cal Marchetti.