Is Garifuna Flava Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 12 Chicago, Illinois
Current status
As of October 2026, Garifuna Flava is listed open on garifunaflava.net, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: Garifuna Flava's own website shows a 2025 copyright notice, current Sunday hours and online ordering, consistent with Google Places' operational status. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 12, Episode 3
- Aired
- Address 2518 W 63rd St, Chicago, IL 60629
- Website garifunaflava.net
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Food Network) featured Garifuna Flava in the season 12 episode "You Can Only Get It Here," which aired May 23, 2011, spotlighting the restaurant's Garifuna and Belizean cooking, including jerk chicken and oxtails. Garifuna Flava is a Caribbean restaurant in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, at 2518 W 63rd St. The restaurant's website describes its menu as including jerk chicken, oxtails, and rice and beans with fried plantains, and bills itself as offering a taste of Belize. The site also lists a catering menu and notes that it serves the wider Chicago area beyond its Chicago Lawn storefront. A check of the website on September 8, 2026 found a 2025 copyright notice, Sunday hours of noon to 8 p.m., and an online-ordering option, and Google's business listing for the address showed an operational status.
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Sources we checked
- garifunaflava.net https://www.garifunaflava.net/
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Record ddd-0438 · checked by Cal Marchetti.