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What Happened to Broken Record After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 12 San Francisco, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Broken Record has closed — confirmed via sfist.com, July 12, 2023.

What the source shows: Google's business profile marks The Broken Record as permanently closed, sfist.com's 2023-07-12 article describes new owners converting the former Broken Record space into a different bar, and Yelp's listing (updated 2026-09) also flags it permanently closed. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited The Broken Record for the 'Southern Flavor' episode, which aired 2011-09-19, spotlighting the bar's food and cocktail service in San Francisco's Excelsior District. The Broken Record operated as a neighborhood bar at 1166 Geneva Ave. According to sfist.com, on 2023-07-12 new owners Ethan Terry and Greg Quinn were converting the former Broken Record space into a different cocktail bar called The Halfway Club, indicating the original bar had already closed by that date. Yelp's listing for Broken Record, updated 2026-09, lists it as permanently closed, and Google's business profile carries the same permanently-closed status.

No current website, social account, or owner statement for The Broken Record was found. The Geneva Avenue address that once housed the bar is now associated with different ownership and a different name, with no indication the original Broken Record currently operates anywhere in San Francisco.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 12

Episode 5
Aired
Title: Southern Flavor · What was featured: the bar's food and cocktail service in San Francisco's Excelsior District
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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. sfist.com https://sfist.com/2023/07/12/new-owners-to-transform-former-broken-record-bar/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/broken-record-san-francisco
  3. sfchronicle.com https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/broken-record-closing-17428483.php
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