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What Happened to The American Dream After Food Paradise?

Food Paradise, Season 19 Huntington Beach, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, The American Dream has closed — confirmed via Yelp, March 2026.

What the source shows: Google Places marks the business as permanently closed, a Yelp listing updated 2026-03 agrees, and the business's website returned an HTTP 522 error when checked 2026-09-08. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

The dessert-themed 'Ooey Gooey Greatness' episode (S19E1) featured The American Dream for its Chorizo Chili Mac and Spicy Grilled Chicken Mac and Cheese, according to Wikipedia's Food Paradise season 19 episode guide. The restaurant was a burger-and-beer tap house at Pacific City in Huntington Beach, California, known for brisket burgers and roughly 60 craft beer taps, with ocean views over the beach, according to a review on Hopped.com. A Google Places listing marks the business as permanently closed. A Yelp listing updated 2026-03 also marks The American Dream as closed.

The business's website, theamericandreamhb.com, returned an HTTP 522 connection-timeout error when checked on 2026-09-08 and would not load. No news source giving a specific closure date was found in this check, so the exact date the restaurant stopped operating remains unknown.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 19

Episode 1
Air date not confirmed
Title: Ooey Gooey Greatness · What was featured: Chorizo Chili Mac and Spicy Chicken Mac and Cheese
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 19 Food Paradise

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-american-dream-huntington-beach
  2. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Paradise_season_19
  3. hopped.com https://hopped.com/places/the-american-dream
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Record fp-1511 · checked by Cal Marchetti.