What Happened to The Bang Candy Company After Food Paradise?
Food Paradise, Season 11 Nashville, Tennessee
Current status
As of October 2026, The Bang Candy Company has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: A Google listing shows the business, recorded as Bang Candy, as permanently closed, and the brand's remaining web presence is a product collection on a different company's site. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 11, Episode 1
- Address 1300 Clinton St #127, Nashville, TN 37203
- Website hesterandcook.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
Food Paradise featured The Bang Candy Company in Nashville, Tennessee, in the season 11 premiere episode "Lay It on Thick," spotlighting the company's handmade confections. The business operated as a candy and syrup maker inside a shared building on Clinton Street. Google Places lists the business, recorded there as Bang Candy, at 1300 Clinton St #127 as permanently closed; this check checked the status 2026-09-08. The website listed for the business, hesterandcook.com, checked the same day, no longer shows a Nashville storefront; instead it displays a Bang Candy product collection sold through Hester & Cook, a separate company whose site carries a 2026 copyright notice and shipping information. No independent news report describing the Nashville shop's closure was found during this check, so the closing date is undetermined beyond what the Places listing shows.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=36.1644824,-86.796248
- hesterandcook.com https://hesterandcook.com/collections/bang-candy
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Record fp-0749 · checked by Cal Marchetti.