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What Happened to Vicious Dogs After Food Paradise? (North Hollywood, CA)

Food Paradise, Season 16 North Hollywood, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Vicious Dogs has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: A Google Places listing checked 2026-09-08 shows Vicious Dogs' business status as permanently closed, with no other dated source found to confirm or add detail. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Vicious Dogs appeared in the Hottest Dogs episode, which highlighted the restaurant's specialty hot dogs. Vicious Dogs operated as a hot dog restaurant at 5231 Lankershim Blvd, in the North Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California, an area also known as NoHo. A Google Places listing checked on 2026-09-08 marked Vicious Dogs as permanently closed. No dated news article, social media post, or business website confirming when or why the restaurant closed was found in available records. The Google Places listing did not include a closure date beyond the September 2026 check, and no working website was located for the business. Because the closure is documented by only the single Google Places status flag, no additional detail about a possible relocation, new ownership, or renaming was available to confirm or rule out.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 16

Episode 6
Air date not confirmed
Title: Hottest Dogs · What was featured: the restaurant's specialty hot dogs
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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  1. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=34.165774,-118.3754476
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Record fp-1323 · checked by Cal Marchetti.