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Is El Mirasol Cocina Mexicana Still Open? (Palm Springs, CA)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 35 Palm Springs, California

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, El Mirasol Cocina Mexicana is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: The business's own website carries a 2026 copyright notice and still promotes owner Felipe's brunch and margarita offerings, and Google Places separately marks the listing operational as of 2026-09-08. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited this Palm Springs restaurant during the "From Chicken to Cheesesteak" episode, aired 2022-08-26, highlighting Mexican breakfast and brunch dishes such as menudo and gluten-free buckwheat waffles alongside house margaritas. El Mirasol Cocina Mexicana operates from a Palm Canyon Drive address in Palm Springs and credits its recipes to owner Felipe on its own website, elmirasolrest.com. The site's copyright notice read 2026 when checked on 2026-09-08, and the page still promoted the same brunch specialties and margarita offerings, including a "Corner-Classic-Cadillac" margarita, that were featured during the visit. Google Places also listed the restaurant as operational on 2026-09-08, and no closure notice or ownership change turned up in the business's own materials.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 35

Episode 17
Aired
Title: From Chicken to Cheesesteak · What was featured: Mexican brunch fare and house margaritas
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. elmirasolrest.com https://www.elmirasolrest.com/
  2. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=33.8029073,-116.5453324
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Record ddd-1339 · checked by Cal Marchetti.