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What Happened to Darby's Cafe After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 16 Olympia, Washington

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Darby's Cafe has closed — confirmed via happycow.net, January 2018.

What the source shows: A HappyCow listing documents the cafe as confirmed closed in January 2018 at its final Three Magnets Brewing-building address, corroborated by a 2026 Yelp listing for the same address. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured this downtown Olympia cafe on the same January 21, 2013 episode, highlighting vegetarian and vegan comfort food such as tofu scramble and vegan biscuits and gravy, served in a Wizard of Oz-themed dining room. The cafe later moved from its original Fifth Avenue storefront into space inside the Three Magnets Brewing Company building on Franklin Street, sharing that kitchen with the brewery. According to a HappyCow listing, the cafe was confirmed closed in January 2018. A Yelp business page for the Franklin Street address, updated 2026-07, likewise marks the cafe as permanently closed. Both listings place the cafe's last known address at 105 Franklin Street, a short walk from its original Fifth Avenue location, where it had operated since the mid-1990s.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 16

Episode 6
Aired
Title: Hometown Haunts · What was featured: vegan/vegetarian comfort food: tofu scramble, biscuits and gravy
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. happycow.net https://www.happycow.net/reviews/darbys-cafe-olympia-5348
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/darbys-cafe-olympia
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