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Is The Urban Oven (food truck) Still Open? Food Paradise Update

Food Paradise, Season 7 Los Angeles, California

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, The Urban Oven (food truck) is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: A Yelp listing for The Urban Oven's Redondo Beach-area catering operation, dated 2026-09, shows the business active, and the company's own website continues to advertise mobile wood-fired pizza catering across the LA area; the Google Places match provided for this record was a different, unrelated pizzeria in Danville, Indiana. How we decide a status →

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What happened after Food Paradise?

The Urban Oven's segment on Food Paradise's "Street Food Paradise" episode highlighted the Los Angeles truck's wood-fired approach to mobile pizza catering, according to the company's own website. Founder Scott trained under established pizzaiolos before building a mobile catering business that brings a wood-burning oven to weddings, corporate events, and other gatherings across the Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara areas, later adding family-style Italian dishes and desserts to the menu, per the same site. The Urban Oven later expanded into a brick-and-mortar restaurant in downtown Los Angeles, but a Yelp listing dated 2025-11 marks that downtown location closed.

The original mobile catering and food-truck business continues to operate, according to a separate Yelp listing for a Redondo Beach-area operation dated 2026-09 and the company's own website. The Google Places record supplied for this listing pointed to an unrelated, same-named pizzeria in Danville, Indiana, rather than the Los Angeles business featured on the show.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 7

Air date not confirmed
Title: Street Food Paradise · What was featured: wood-fired mobile pizza catering with hand-crafted artisanal pies
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 7 Food Paradise

Season 7: 34 of 48 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners

All 6 Season 7 episodes →

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. theurbanoven.com https://theurbanoven.com/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-urban-oven-redondo-beach-5
  3. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-urban-oven-los-angeles-4
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Record fp-0480 · checked by Cal Marchetti.