What Happened to Tunnel Bar-B-Q After You Gotta Eat Here!? (Windsor, ON)
Current status
As of October 2026, Tunnel Bar-B-Q has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, 2014.
Last verified
What the source shows: The University of Windsor's Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive record lists the Park Street East restaurant's years as 1941 to 2014, and Deadline Detroit reported its sale to the university and a September closing.
- Season / episode Season 1, Episode 23
- Original air date
- Address 58 Park Street East, Windsor, ON
Address
58 Park Street East, Windsor, ON
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What happened after You Gotta Eat Here!?
The 2012-09-21 episode of You Gotta Eat Here! (season 1, episode 23), as summarized by TVmaze, had host John Catucci visit Tunnel Bar-B-Q in Windsor, Ontario; the summary names no dish. The restaurant stood at 58 Park Street East, across from the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel, according to Deadline Detroit and the University of Windsor's Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive. The TBQ company's timeline page dates the family business to 1941, when it opened as Tunnel Lunch. In an article whose date was not shown on the page read, Deadline Detroit reported that the restaurant had been sold to the University of Windsor and would stay open through the summer before closing in September. The archive record lists the restaurant's years as 1941 to 2014. Fox 2 Detroit reported on 2017-07-17 on a pop-up serving Tunnel Bar-B-Q food at Beau's Grillery in Bloomfield Hills. The TBQ.ca website, with a 2026 copyright, now sells sauces and spices.
Featured on You Gotta Eat Here!
- Show
- You Gotta Eat Here!
- Season / episode
- Season 1, Episode 23
- Original air date
- Episode title
- Coastal Waters, Tunnel BBQ, Chez Claudette
- What was featured
- Barbecue restaurant; the episode's specific dish was not confirmed
- Role
- Featured restaurant
- Name on the broadcast
- Tunnel Bar-B-Q
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Visit info
- Address
- 58 Park Street East, Windsor, ON
- Venue type
- restaurant
- Official website
- tbq.ca
- State hub
- TV restaurants in Ontario
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Sources
- swoda.uwindsor.ca — https://swoda.uwindsor.ca/node/1882
- fox2detroit.com — https://www.fox2detroit.com/mornings/tunnel-bar-b-q-pop-up-at-beaus-grillery-now-open
- origin.deadlinedetroit.com — https://origin.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/tunnel_bar-b-q_windsor_s_best_known_restaurant_will_close_this_summer
- tbq-ca.myshopify.com — https://tbq-ca.myshopify.com/pages/about-us
- api.tvmaze.com — https://api.tvmaze.com/singlesearch/shows?q=you%20gotta%20eat%20here&embed=episodes
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