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Is The Ship Still Open? You Gotta Eat Here! Update (Hamilton, ON)

You Gotta Eat Here!, Season 5 Hamilton, Ontario

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, The Ship is listed open on theship.ca, reviewed by our team on October 20, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: The Ship's own website loaded on 2026-10-20 with an online ordering feature and a server modification date of that day, and a Google Maps listing checked 2026-10-19 shows it as operational. How we decide a status →

What happened after You Gotta Eat Here!?

The Ship, a pub in Hamilton, Ontario, was one of three restaurants in the episode of You Gotta Eat Here! (Food Network Canada) that aired 2016-11-18 under the title "The Cannibal Café, Baja Café, The Ship." TVmaze's episode listing records the featured food as pub food. The episode paired it with a Vancouver burger café, The Cannibal Café, and a Tucson brunch spot, Baja Café. A Google Maps listing, checked 2026-10-19, gives the pub's address as 23 Augusta Street, Hamilton, ON L8N 1P6, and lists the business as operational.

When the pub's own website, theship.ca, was loaded on 2026-10-20, it offered an online ordering feature, and the server reported a page modification date of 2026-10-20. The series, hosted by John Catucci, ran on Food Network Canada from 2012 to 2016, and this episode belonged to its fifth season.

The episode You Gotta Eat Here!, Season 5

Episode 26
Aired
Title: The Cannibal Café, Baja Café, The Ship · What was featured: Pub food, per the TVmaze episode listing for season 5, episode 26

Synopsis (tvmaze.com) : Host John Catucci sets sail for Hamilton, Ont., for great pub food at the Ship; devours a Southwestern brunch at Baja Café in Tucson; and sinks his teeth into a punk rock burger at Cannibal Café in Vancouver.

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. theship.ca http://www.theship.ca/
  2. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=The+Ship+23+Augusta+St+Hamilton+ON+L8N+1P6
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Record ygeh-331 · checked by Cal Marchetti.