Is The Hungry Monkey Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Newport, RI)

Food Paradise, Season 11, Episode 15

The Hungry Monkey appeared as the Newport stop on Bigger Is Better, spotlighting the diner-style café's breakfast and lunch plates and its playful monkey mascot theme. The Hungry Monkey Cafe operates in the Broadway district of Newport, Rhode Island. A banner on its own website reads, "Featured on Travel Channel's 'Food Paradise,' Receiving National Attention." A site check on 2026-09-09 found hungrymonkeycafe.com live with content dated 2024, listing delivery and pickup options and continued hours for the Broadway location.

Man v. Food, Season 10, Episode 5 Aired October 4, 2022

For the final segment of his Newport, Rhode Island stop, host Casey Webb visited this Broadway diner to attempt the 'Go Bananas Challenge,' a stuffed French toast platter built from an entire loaf of Portuguese sweet bread and topped with bananas, blueberries, strawberries and whipped cream, weighing about 4 pounds, according to the episode synopsis on Wikipedia's Man v. Food season 10 page. Webb had 30 minutes to finish the plate but ran out of time with about a third of the challenge left, per the same source, and paid the $39.95 challenge price for the loss. The Hungry Monkey Cafe describes itself on its own website as a diner-style restaurant in Newport's Broadway district serving breakfast and lunch daily. The restaurant's website also notes an earlier appearance on Travel Channel's 'Food Paradise,' with a linked 2021 Newport Daily News article describing that visit by the same host, Casey Webb.