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Is The Melting Pot Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Thousand Oaks, CA)

Food Paradise, Season 4 Thousand Oaks, California

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, The Melting Pot is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: The location's own website (checked 2026-09-08) offers live table booking and current hours, and Yelp reviews were updated in August 2026, outweighing Google Places' temporarily-closed flag from the same period. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Food Paradise's 2013 'Cheese Paradise' episode (Season 4, Episode 19) featured this Thousand Oaks location of the Melting Pot, a fondue chain built around cheese, meat, seafood, and chocolate courses served with dipping sauces, according to Wikipedia's entry on the chain (revised June 16, 2026). The Tampa, Florida-based company operates as part of Front Burner Brands and listed 95 locations in a May 2026 update to the same entry. The Thousand Oaks location's own website, checked September 8, 2026, showed a live table-booking option and current hours beginning at 5 p.m. on weeknights, and Yelp's page for the location was updated in August 2026 with continuing customer reviews. Google's business listing flagged the location as temporarily closed in the same September 2026 data pull, but the location's own booking page and the fresher Yelp activity point to it remaining in operation.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 4

Episode 19
Aired
Title: Cheese Paradise · What was featured: cheese, meat, seafood, and chocolate fondue courses
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 4 Food Paradise

Season 4: 134 of 199 still open · 12 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. meltingpot.com https://www.meltingpot.com/thousand-oaks-ca/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-melting-pot-thousand-oaks-thousand-oaks-3
  3. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Melting_Pot_(restaurant)
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Record fp-0337 · checked by Cal Marchetti.