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Is Woody's Wood-Fire Pizza Bar & Oven Still Open? Food Paradise Update

Food Paradise, Season 12 Joplin, Missouri

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Woody's Wood-Fire Pizza Bar & Oven is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: Woody's own site returned an HTTP 403 error, so status rests on Yelp's listing, updated August 2026, which shows 148 reviews and a 4.6-star rating. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Woody's Wood-Fire Pizza Bar & Oven appeared in the episode "Route 66" (S12E2), which featured this Joplin, Missouri pizzeria along the historic highway for its wood-fired pizzas, wings, and grinders. The restaurant is family owned and operated, and its address, 1831 West 7th Street, sits on the Route 66 corridor through Joplin. The business's own website returned an HTTP 403 error when checked on 2026-09-09 and could not be used to confirm current status. Yelp's listing for the restaurant, updated in August 2026, showed 148 reviews and a 4.6-star rating, indicating the pizzeria remained active and well-reviewed. A separate visitor directory, VisitJoplinMO, listed the business under a related name, Woody's Woodfire Pizza Bar & Grill, at the same address, suggesting the restaurant uses more than one shortened name across listings.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 12

Episode 2
Air date not confirmed
Title: Route 66 · What was featured: Wood-fired pizzas, wings, and grinders
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 12 Food Paradise

Season 12: 79 of 100 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/woodys-woodfire-pizza-joplin
  2. visitjoplinmo.com https://www.visitjoplinmo.com/directory/woodys-woodfire-pizza-bar-grill/
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Record fp-0873 · checked by Cal Marchetti.