What Happened to Ca'Brea After Mystery Diners? (Los Angeles, CA)
Mystery Diners, Season 2 Los Angeles, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Ca'Brea has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 2026.
What the source shows: the original listing's coordinates matched an unrelated Brea Mall in Brea, CA; a corrected search found Ca'Brea relocated to 3900 Wilshire Blvd in 2015, and a Yelp listing updated September 2026 marks that location permanently closed. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 2, Episode 6
- Aired
- Address 3900 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010
- Website simon.com
- Show map
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About this show's format: Described as staged/scripted by Wikipedia's article, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report. Surface this note on every record.
What happened after Mystery Diners?
In the Mystery Diners episode "Valet Disservice," which aired November 23, 2012, George Sarkis, owner of Ca'Brea on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, had been fielding complaints not about the food or the dining room staff but about the valet stand out front. Charles Stiles sent investigators Tracey and Hank in undercover to experience the valet service as ordinary customers would and document what was going wrong. Sarkis was advised that the valet operation, often a customer's first and last impression of the restaurant, needed the same oversight and accountability as the dining room, and that the specific problems the investigators documented had to be corrected at the valet stand directly and promptly.
According to the episode, Sarkis addressed the valet service after seeing the footage. Wikipedia's article on Mystery Diners notes, citing its sources, that the show carries an on-screen disclaimer stating some events may be staged or re-enacted for dramatic purposes, and that a television critic has described its scenarios and performances as implausible. Ca'Brea later relocated from La Brea Avenue to 3900 Wilshire Blvd in 2015, according to the Larchmont Buzz, and a Yelp listing for the Wilshire Blvd address, updated September 2026, marks the restaurant permanently closed.
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Sources we checked
- imdb.com https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2550630/
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Diners
- larchmontbuzz.com https://larchmontbuzz.com/larchmont-village-news/cabrea-italian-restaurant-relocates/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/ca-brea-los-angeles-4
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Record md-014 · checked by Cal Marchetti.