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What Happened to Turnagain Arm Pit & BBQ After Food Paradise?

Food Paradise, Season 15 Anchorage, Alaska

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Turnagain Arm Pit & BBQ has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: Google Places lists the business as permanently closed, and the restaurant's former domain now hosts unrelated gambling-spam content. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

"The Last Food Frontier" (S15E1) featured Turnagain Arm Pit BBQ, a barbecue restaurant on the Old Seward Highway in Anchorage, Alaska. Google's Places record lists the business as "Turnagain Arm Pit BBQ" at 3637 Old Seward Highway, a name rendered slightly differently, as "Turn Again Armpit BBQ," in the site's own archived page title, and lists the business's status as permanently closed. A check of the restaurant's former domain, turnagainarmpitbbq.com, on 2026-09-08 found the site no longer describing a restaurant: the page, still titled "Turn Again Armpit BBQ" and carrying a 2026 copyright notice, now consists of unrelated Indonesian-language content promoting online slot and roulette gambling sites, with no restaurant menu, hours, or contact information. The domain's repurposing for unrelated gambling-related content, rather than any restaurant material, indicates the original business no longer controls the site.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 15

Episode 1
Air date not confirmed
Title: The Last Food Frontier · What was featured: Highway barbecue restaurant in Anchorage
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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  1. turnagainarmpitbbq.com http://turnagainarmpitbbq.com/
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Record fp-1177 · checked by Cal Marchetti.