Is Broke Da Mouth Grindz Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 28 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Current status
As of October 2026, Broke Da Mouth Grindz is open — confirmed via Yelp, September 2026.
What the source shows: The most active, most-reviewed Yelp listing for the restaurant is dated September 2026 with no closure marking, and the business's own website returned a same-day server update, both corroborated by an operational Google Places listing. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 28, Episode 19
- Aired
- Address 74-5565 Luhia St, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
- Website brokedamouthgrindz.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Broke Da Mouth Grindz in the episode "Culinary Journey," aired September 7, 2018, for its Filipino-Hawaiian plate-lunch cooking, known locally as "grindz." The takeout-only restaurant operates from a strip mall on Luhia Street in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, near downtown, with nearby beach parks serving as informal seating. A Yelp listing for the business, updated in September 2026 with thousands of reviews, shows no closure marking, and reviewers there highlight the garlic furikake chicken and kalua pork as standout dishes. The restaurant's own website, checked September 8, 2026, returned a same-day server update and a working online-ordering widget. A separate, older Yelp page for the business carries a closed marking, but the more active, more recently updated listing and Google's Places listing both show the restaurant operating.
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/broke-da-mouth-grindz-kona-kailua-kona
- brokedamouthgrindz.com http://brokedamouthgrindz.com/
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Record ddd-1062 · checked by Cal Marchetti.