What Happened to The Piggery After Food Paradise? (Chicago, IL)
Food Paradise, Season 18 Chicago, Illinois
Current status
As of October 2026, The Piggery has closed — confirmed via thepiggerychicago.com, September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: Google Places marks the business as permanently closed, and its website returned an HTTP 403 error when checked 2026-09-08. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 18, Episode 7
- Address 1625 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613
- Website thepiggerychicago.com
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
The pork-centered 'Hog Wild' episode (S18E7) featured The Piggery for its Piggery Cuban Sandwich and pork belly pastrami sliders, according to Wikipedia's Food Paradise season 18 episode guide. The restaurant operated at 1625 W Irving Park Road in Chicago's North Center neighborhood, according to Google Places. A Google Places listing marks The Piggery as permanently closed. The business's website, thepiggerychicago.com, returned an HTTP 403 error when checked on 2026-09-08 and would not load, consistent with the closure. No news source giving a specific closure date was found in this check, so the exact date the restaurant stopped operating remains unknown. No successor business or new ownership at the Irving Park Road address was identified in the evidence reviewed for this record.
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Sources we checked
- thepiggerychicago.com http://thepiggerychicago.com/
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Paradise_season_18
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Record fp-1505 · checked by Cal Marchetti.