What Happened to Bang! After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? (Denver, CO)
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 12 Denver, Colorado
Current status
As of October 2026, Bang! has closed — confirmed via Yelp, March 2026.
What the source shows: Multiple restaurant fan sites -- Yelp (updated 2026-03), flavortownusa.com, and Gayot -- list Bang! as permanently closed, though no source reviewed gives an exact closure date. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 12, Episode 5
- Aired
- Address 3472 W 32nd Ave, Denver, CO 80211
- Website bangparkhill.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Bang! for the 'Southern Flavor' episode, aired 2011-09-19, highlighting the restaurant's gumbo with warm jalapeno cornbread and its signature meatloaf drizzled with spicy homemade ketchup. Bang! operated as a New American comfort-food restaurant at 3472 W 32nd Ave in Denver's Highland neighborhood, run by brothers Chris and Jeff Oakley with Cissy Olderman handling desserts. Yelp's listing for Bang!, updated 2026-03, lists the restaurant as permanently closed, and flavortownusa.com's location page for the show also tags the restaurant closed. Gayot's restaurant guide separately notes the location as closed.
None of these sources gives a specific closure date, and no current website or social account for Bang! was located. Westword's business-directory page for Bang! remains online but shows no current hours or 2026 activity. No owner statement about the closure was found. The West 32nd Avenue storefront's current occupant, if any, was not identified in available sources.
The episode
Also in Season 12
Season 12: 20 of 39 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 4Bun ‘N Barrel
Closed - Closed
- Open
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Ep 5Broken Record
Closed - Closed
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Ep 6Get Fresh Café
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Ep 6Nana Organic
Closed - Open
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/bang-denver
- flavortownusa.com https://www.flavortownusa.com/locations/430/bang
- gayot.com https://www.gayot.com/restaurants/bang-denver-co-80211_31dv9923.html
- westword.com https://www.westword.com/location/bang-5160932
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Record ddd-0443 · checked by Cal Marchetti.