Is Big Wave Shrimp Truck Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Part 1 — Season 15, Episode 7 Aired October 1, 2012

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Big Wave Shrimp Truck, a food truck on Oahu's North Shore in Haleiwa, Hawaii, for the episode 'Flavortown Medley,' which aired 2012-10-01. According to the business's own website, Big Wave Shrimp has been 'serving Hawaii since 2005' from its truck on Kamehameha Highway, offering a menu of Hawaiian-style shrimp plates alongside shaded outdoor seating and background music for waiting customers. A check of the website, bigwaveshrimp.com, on 2026-09-08 found the site live and returning a normal HTTP response, with a working menu page, a photo gallery, a blog section, and a listed contact phone number, though the site displayed no explicit 2026 date. No independent news source was consulted, so the finding relies on the business's own website.

Part 2 — Season 27, Episode 4 Aired July 28, 2017

On Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Food Network), this appearance in the "Fun in the Sun" episode, which aired 2017-07-28, revisited Big Wave Shrimp, a food truck on Oahu's North Shore in Haleiwa, Hawaii. According to KHON2, the truck is a family business run by brothers Max and Jake, serving shrimp plate lunches that include at least ten shrimp, rice, salad, and a slice of fresh pineapple, eaten at outdoor picnic tables near the truck. The same source notes that many of the truck's cooks and cashiers have worked there for more than a decade, contributing to its long-running local reputation. Guy Fieri originally featured the truck's coconut shrimp when Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives first visited in October 2012, according to Flavortownusa's episode guide.