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What Happened to Cornbread Cafe After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 21 Eugene, Oregon

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Cornbread Cafe has closed — confirmed via nbc16.com, June 12, 2023.

What the source shows: NBC16 reported that co-founder Sheree Walters put Cornbread Cafe up for sale in June 2023, and a Yelp listing updated May 2026 still marks the restaurant permanently closed. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Cornbread Cafe for its Old School Joints episode (aired 2014-10-31), spotlighting the vegan restaurant's Southern-style comfort food, including its signature Eugenewich and Chik'n Biscuit sandwiches, built from recipes inspired by co-founder Sheree Walters's grandmother. The restaurant opened in Eugene in 2011 and became known for its all-vegan menu made largely from local, organic ingredients. According to NBC16, Walters put the restaurant up for sale in June 2023, saying she needed to step away to care for her parents and hoping a new owner would "carry the torch and take it to new places." A Yelp listing updated May 2026 continues to mark Cornbread Cafe as permanently closed at the West 7th Avenue address, with no report found of a new tenant or reopening.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 21

Episode 7
Aired
Title: Old School Joints · What was featured: vegan Southern comfort food like the Eugenewich sandwich
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. nbc16.com https://nbc16.com/newsletter-daily/cornbread-cafe-eugenes-vegan-hotspot-seeks-new-owner-to-carry-the-torch
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/cornbread-cafe-vegan-comfort-food-eugene
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