What Happened to Aunt Mary's Café After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 11 Oakland, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Aunt Mary's Café has closed — confirmed via dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com, June 13, 2025.
What the source shows: A Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives fan site, updated 2025-06-13, listed the phone as permanently closed and described the cafe as shut in recent years. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 11, Episode 7
- Aired
- Address 4307 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
On Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives ("Favorites With A Twist," aired 2011-02-28), Guy Fieri visited Aunt Mary's Café in Oakland, California, a Southern-style brunch spot in the Temescal neighborhood, where standout dishes included Pain Perdue, potlikker gravy and biscuits, and shrimp and grits, according to a Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives fan site. The café was founded by a Texas-born chef who brought traditional Southern recipes to the Bay Area, and it offered patio seating for outdoor dining. Dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com, updated 2025-06-13, listed the café's phone number as permanently closed and described the business as having shut its doors in recent years after the site's writers had dined there on multiple occasions. The café's motto, "Southern Food with a Twist," was reflected in its menu, and the site noted an outdoor patio that had been a signature part of the dining experience.
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- dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com https://www.dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com/aunt-marys-cafe-california.html
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Record ddd-0410 · checked by Cal Marchetti.