What Happened to The Meatloaf Bakery After Food Paradise? (Chicago, IL)
Food Paradise, Season 4 Chicago, Illinois
Current status
As of October 2026, The Meatloaf Bakery has closed — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026.
What the source shows: Yelp's listing for The Meatloaf Bakery, updated June 2026, lists it as closed; the original listing's original location match was a different business at a different Chicago address. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 9
- Aired
- Address 2464 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
- Website loafloungechicago.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
Food Paradise's 2012 'Meatloaf Paradise' episode featured The Meatloaf Bakery's meatloaf-and-mashed-potato desserts, sold in cupcake form, including a "Motherloaf" combination of beef, pork, and veal topped with mashed potatoes. The Meatloaf Bakery operated as a bakery on North Clark Street in Chicago. Yelp's listing for the business, updated in June 2026, lists it as closed. Several food-delivery platform pages for the business, including Seamless, DoorDash, and Grubhub, still display the same North Clark Street address without confirming current operation. No 2026-dated hours or ordering activity were found on an active Meatloaf Bakery website or social account during this check. The location initially returned for this record, Loaf Lounge, is a separate business at a different Chicago address and was not confirmed to be a continuation of The Meatloaf Bakery.
The episode
Also in Season 4
Season 4: 134 of 199 still open · 12 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 8Cozy Corner
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- Closed
- Relocated
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Ep 9Neptune Diner
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Ep 9Suppenküche
Open - Closed
Nearest open restaurants
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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
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Best Thing I Ever Ate
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Food Paradise
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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
New owners -
Chicago Pizza & Oven Grinder Co.
Best Thing I Ever Ate · Food Paradise
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Food Paradise
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-meatloaf-bakery-chicago
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Record fp-0257 · checked by Cal Marchetti.