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What Happened to Dottie's True Blue Café? (San Francisco, CA)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 6 San Francisco, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Dottie's True Blue Café has closed — confirmed via sfgate.com, 2020.

What the source shows: SFGATE reported that Dottie's True Blue Cafe permanently closed after nearly 30 years, quoting the business's own closure message posted on its website, and a Yelp listing updated July 2026 continues to mark the 6th Street location permanently closed. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

On Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Guy Fieri visited Dottie's True Blue Cafe in San Francisco, California, featuring the diner's fluffy pancakes and home fries. Dottie's moved from its original Jones Street location in the Tenderloin to a larger space at 28 6th Street by 2012, according to SFGATE. Kurt Abney took over the business in the early 1990s and later put it up for sale in 2015; the business sold to new owners two years later, according to SFGATE. SFGATE reported that after nearly 30 years the cafe permanently closed, quoting a message the owners posted on the business's website: "We had to close our 6th Street doors for good." SFGATE said it could not confirm an exact closing date. A Yelp listing updated July 2026 continues to mark the 6th Street location permanently closed.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 6

Episode 12
Aired
Title: Comfort Cookin' · What was featured: fluffy pancakes and home fries
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. sfgate.com https://www.sfgate.com/restaurants/article/San-Francisco-favorite-brunch-Dotties-closed-16711469.php
  2. Yelp https://m.yelp.com/biz/dotties-true-blue-cafe-san-francisco
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