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Is The Pig & Pint Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Jackson, MS)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11 Jackson, Mississippi

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, The Pig & Pint is open — confirmed via Yelp, July 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing for The Pig & Pint, updated July 2026 with 1,245 reviews and 1,129 photos, and an independent, currently active OpenTable reservation page confirm the barbecue restaurant is operating in Jackson's Fondren district. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate? 2 episodes

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11, Episode 11

"Best Thing I Ever Ate" episode "Stretchy Pants Required" featured The Pig & Pint, a barbecue restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi's Fondren neighborhood known for pairing smoked meats with a rotating beer list. The restaurant operates at 3139 North State Street. Yelp's listing for The Pig & Pint, updated July 2026, showed 1,245 reviews and 1,129 photos and listed posted hours of Monday through Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., with Sundays closed (Yelp, 2026-07). The restaurant also continued to accept reservations through an active OpenTable listing as of a 2026 check, and its own website (pigandpint.com) remained reachable with current contact information. The Pig & Pint has also been listed in local wedding-vendor directories as catering barbecue to private events in the Jackson area.

Food Paradise, Season 13, Episode 6

The episode, 'Saucy!' (S13E6), featured The Pig & Pint, a barbecue restaurant at 3139 N. State Street in Jackson, Mississippi, that describes its menu on its own site as upscale, eclectic barbecue paired with a curated beer list. Since the episode, pigandpint.com listed Monday-through-Saturday hours of 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and an online-ordering option when checked on September 9, 2026, with page content dated 2025; Google's business-profile data listed the restaurant as operational the same day.

The episodes Best Thing I Ever Ate

Air date not confirmed
Title: Stretchy Pants Required · What was featured: The Pig & Pint's Fondren-district barbecue and craft-beer selection
Air date not confirmed
Title: Saucy! · What was featured: the barbecue's upscale, eclectic pork dishes and craft beer pairings

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-pig-and-pint-jackson
  2. OpenTable https://www.opentable.com/r/the-pig-and-pint-jackson
  3. pigandpint.com http://www.pigandpint.com/
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