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Is Blackthorn Restaurant & Pub Still Open? (Buffalo, NY)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 8 Buffalo, New York

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Blackthorn Restaurant & Pub is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 15, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: Yelp's September 2026 listing shows the pub open and highly rated, and the business's own website lists current hours and recent event photos. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Blackthorn Restaurant & Pub in the episode titled Home And Away (aired 2010-02-01), spotlighting the pub's Irish-American comfort cooking. Blackthorn Restaurant & Pub is a neighborhood pub at 2134 Seneca Street in South Buffalo, New York, that has served the area since 1977; according to the business's own website, it is co-owned by Pat Lalley and Hugger Adymy. According to Yelp, a listing updated in September 2026 shows the pub open, rated 4.1 of 5 with hundreds of photos and reviews and no closure marking.

The pub's own website lists current kitchen hours of 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, along with recent event-space photos. No name change, relocation, or new-ownership indicator was found in the material reviewed for this record.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 8

Episode 5
Aired
Title: Home And Away · What was featured: Irish-American pub cooking and comfort food
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/blackthorn-restaurant-and-pub-buffalo
  2. blackthornrestaurant.com https://www.blackthornrestaurant.com/
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Record ddd-0295 · checked by Cal Marchetti.