Is Barone's Famous Italian Restaurant Still Open? (Los Angeles, CA)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 25, Episode 5 Aired August 12, 2016

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Barone's Famous Italian for its thin-crust pizza and classic Italian dishes on the 2016 episode "Global Greats." The restaurant, which its own website credits as having introduced Southern California's first thin-crust pizza, operates in the Valley Glen neighborhood of Los Angeles at 13726 Oxnard St. A 2026-09-08 site check found baronesla.com live, with a "TV/Media" page referencing the restaurant's television appearances, posted weekday and weekend hours, and a working online ordering system. Posted hours listed Thursday through Sunday service, running as late as 9:30 p.m. on weekends. Google Places lists Barone's business status as operational. The site also continued to advertise distribution and marketing services alongside its restaurant menu, contact information, and pages for private events.

Food Paradise, Season 18, Episode 3

Food Paradise's "Most Valuable Plates" episode (S18E3) featured Barone's Famous Italian Restaurant, an Italian restaurant in the Valley Glen neighborhood of Los Angeles that describes itself on its own site as serving "Southern California's first thin crust pizza" alongside other Italian dishes. A direct check of baronesla.com on 2026-09-08 returned the site loading normally, with posted current weekly hours — including Thursday 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and weekend hours extending later — and a working online-ordering option. The site also maintains a dedicated media page referencing television and press coverage, though this check did not independently verify the content of that coverage.

Google Places lists the business as operational at the same Oxnard Street address. No news coverage, closure notice, ownership change, or rename was found for this restaurant during the check, and the site's own content did not carry an explicit 2026 copyright date beyond the live ordering system and posted hours.