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What Happened to Giusti's After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 5 Walnut Grove, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Giusti's has closed — confirmed via Yelp, July 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's July 2026 listing update marks Giusti's as permanently closed, with no independent news source found confirming a closure date. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

On Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives episode 'Family Favorites' (aired 2009-03-23), Guy Fieri visited Giusti's for its family-recipe Italian-American cooking. Giusti's was a bar and restaurant on Walnut Grove-Thornton Road in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta town of Walnut Grove, California, run by the same family for four generations and known as one of the oldest restaurants in the Delta. Yelp's listing for the business, updated July 2026, marks it permanently closed. The business's phone number, (916) 776-1808, is still listed under the closed Yelp page as of the July 2026 update. No independent news report on a closure date or reason was found, and no reopening or successor business at the address has been reported.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 5

Episode 13
Aired
Title: Family Favorites · What was featured: Family-recipe Italian-American Delta cooking, four generations
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  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/giustis-walnut-grove-5
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