Is Copper Penny Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 28 Wilmington, North Carolina
Current status
As of October 2026, Copper Penny is listed open on copperpennync.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: Copper Penny's website returned HTTP 200 on 2026-09-08 with a working online-ordering link and a page title matching the business name, though the extracted text was mostly template markup rather than readable content. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 28, Episode 8
- Aired
- Address 109 Chestnut St, Wilmington, NC 28401
- Website copperpennync.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives included Copper Penny in downtown Wilmington as part of the episode "Pizza, Pork and Peru" (aired 2018-04-06); with sister segments in that episode built around pizza and Peruvian food, Copper Penny appears to anchor the pork-focused stop. The restaurant operates from Chestnut Street in downtown Wilmington. Copper Penny's website, checked 2026-09-08, returned a working page with the business's name in the title and an active online-ordering link, though the page's readable text did not include a dated copyright line or a current-year reference. Google's business listing shows the operator name as The Copper Penny rather than the shorter name used on the show. No closure, relocation, or ownership-change notice appears on the site or in Google's listing based on the 2026-09-08 check.
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Sources we checked
- copperpennync.com http://www.copperpennync.com/
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Record ddd-1030 · checked by Cal Marchetti.