What Happened to Devine Pastabilities After Mystery Diners?
Mystery Diners, Season 7 San Diego, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Devine Pastabilities has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, September 2026.
What the source shows: Google Places records the business as permanently closed, and the restaurant's former website domain now hosts a 2026-dated marketplace page offering the domain for sale. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 7, Episode 5
- Aired
- Address 3545 Midway Dr E, San Diego, CA 92110
- Website torpasta.com
- Show map
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What happened after Mystery Diners?
Mystery Diners' episode 'Trademark Trouble' (Season 7, Episode 5), which aired 2014-08-27, examined business practices at Devine Pastabilities, an Italian pasta restaurant in San Diego's Midway District. Following the show's format, host Charles Stiles used hidden-camera footage to document the problem investigated, then presented the recordings to the owner and discussed corrective steps, with the episode's title pointing to a dispute involving the restaurant's name or branding. According to Wikipedia's article on Mystery Diners, citing its sources, the program carries a disclaimer that certain depicted events may be re-enacted for dramatic purposes, and a television critic quoted in the article described the show's scenarios and resolutions as implausible and staged-seeming.
Google Places lists the Midway Drive address under two names, Devine Pastabilities and Torpasta of San Diego, indicating the restaurant was renamed at some point after the naming dispute referenced in the episode's title. Google Places also marks the business as permanently closed. A website check on 2026-09-09 found that the restaurant's former web address, torpasta.com, now redirects to a HugeDomains marketplace page offering the domain for sale, carrying a 2026 copyright notice and no restaurant content. No current website, active social page, or 2026-dated review was found for either name at the Midway Drive address.
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Sources we checked
- torpasta.com http://www.torpasta.com/
- Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Devine+Pastabilities+3545+Midway+Dr+San+Diego+CA+92110
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Diners
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Record md-077 · checked by Cal Marchetti.