What Happened to California Tacos To Go After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 12 Tampa, Florida
Current status
As of October 2026, California Tacos To Go has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026.
What the source shows: Yelp shows California Tacos To Go's Skipper Road location as permanently closed and shows a different business, Brass Mug, now occupying that same address, confirming the original listing's 'Tacos Las Californias' match was an unrelated business. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 12, Episode 2
- Aired
- Address 1450 Skipper Rd, Tampa, FL 33613
- Website tacoslascalifornias.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Food Network) featured California Tacos To Go in the season 12 episode "From Kraut to Couscous," which aired May 16, 2011, spotlighting the Tampa shop's beer-battered fish tacos. California Tacos To Go operated a location at 1450 Skipper Rd in Tampa, Florida; the chain had multiple locations under the same name across the Tampa Bay area. Yelp's listing for the Skipper Road address, last updated in April 2026, lists California Tacos To Go as permanently closed. Yelp also lists a bar and live-music venue, Brass Mug, now operating at that same 1450 Skipper Rd address, with its own listing last updated in August 2026. No current website or social-media presence for California Tacos To Go's Tampa operation could be located.
The episode
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Season 12: 20 of 39 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 1Zest
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Ep 2Lauer-Krauts
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Ep 3Garifuna Flava
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Ep 3HRD Coffee Shop
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Ep 3The Tamale Place
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Record ddd-0435 · checked by Cal Marchetti.