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Is The Gulf Restaurant Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Orange Beach, AL)

Food Paradise, Season 13 Orange Beach, Alabama

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, The Gulf Restaurant is open — confirmed via Yelp, September 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's September 2026 listing and the business's own website both show The Gulf actively operating with current hours and menus at its Orange Beach location. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

The Gulf was featured on the episode 'Gulf Grubbin,' spotlighting the waterfront seafood restaurant's Gulf Coast-focused menu. The restaurant sits on Perdido Beach Boulevard in Orange Beach and sources Gulf seafood along with ingredients from regional farmers for a rotating seasonal menu, according to its website. Yelp's listing for the restaurant, updated September 2026, carried more than 2,000 reviews and listed current hours of 11 a.m. to 9 or 10 p.m. daily. The restaurant's own site, thegulf.com, described the Orange Beach location as offering waterfront dining alongside a second location in Fort Walton Beach. The Gulf's website called the setting 'the seaside hideaway you dreamed you'd find,' a description carried on its current locations page, which also links to an events-booking page for private gatherings.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 13

Episode 1
Air date not confirmed
Title: Gulf Grubbin' · What was featured: The Gulf's Gulf seafood and seasonal, regionally sourced coastal menu
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-gulf-orange-beach-8
  2. thegulf.com https://thegulf.com/locations/orange-beach/
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Record fp-0966 · checked by Cal Marchetti.