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What Happened to Gaffey Street Diner After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 1 San Pedro, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Gaffey Street Diner has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing for 'The Original Gaffey Diner,' updated August 2026, marks the business permanently closed; Triple D Life's page for Gaffey Street Diner is separately labeled '[CLOSED]'. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives' fourth episode, 'Breakfast' (aired 2007-05-21), featured Gaffey Street Diner, a breakfast diner at 247 North Gaffey Street in San Pedro, California, a waterfront neighborhood of Los Angeles. Yelp's listing for the business, updated in August 2026 under the name 'The Original Gaffey Diner,' marks it permanently closed. Triple D Life, a fan site that tracks the show's restaurants, separately labels its Gaffey Street Diner page '[CLOSED].' No source found for this record gives a specific closure date. A different business, Happy Diner, now operates at a separate address on North Gaffey Street, roughly a mile away, but nothing found ties that business to the original Gaffey Street Diner's ownership or brand.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 1

Episode 4
Aired
Title: Breakfast · What was featured: classic diner breakfast fare
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-original-gaffey-diner-san-pedro
  2. tripledlife.com https://tripledlife.com/restaurant/gaffey-street-diner/
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