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What Happened to Grubstak After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? (Gilbert, AZ)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 28 Gilbert, Arizona

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Grubstak has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: A Triple D restaurant fan site lists Grubstak as closed, and Food Network's restaurant directory shows no active Gilbert page, consistent with reporting that the original Gilbert restaurant expanded to a Chandler location before closing entirely. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Grubstak in the "All Kinds of Comfort" episode, which aired 2018-02-18, showcasing the restaurant's fast-casual "stak-able" format of layered sandwiches, bowls, and shakes built around customizable stacked ingredients. According to an AccessWire press release announcing the restaurant's launch, Grubstak opened in downtown Gilbert's Heritage Square in 2016 as a build-your-own fast-casual concept founded by Colton Grubb. A Triple D episode fan site, tripledmap.com, lists the Gilbert location at 384 N Gilbert Rd as closed, and Food Network's own restaurant directory carries no active page for that address.

According to tripledmap.com, the business briefly added a second location in Chandler before that location also closed. The address and coordinates associated with this record in prior location data pointed to the SanTan Village shopping center, which does not correspond to any confirmed Grubstak location; the restaurant's documented address was 384 N Gilbert Rd, Gilbert, Arizona.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 28

Episode 4
Aired
Title: All Kinds of Comfort · What was featured: Fast-casual layered 'stak-able' sandwiches, bowls, and shakes
How Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. tripledmap.com https://www.tripledmap.com/restaurant/grubstak-closed
  2. foodnetwork.com https://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/az/gilbert/grubstak-restaurant
  3. accessnewswire.com https://www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/business-and-professional-services/grubstaktm-a-new-restaurant-that-offers-a-fast-casual-dining-expe-450438
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Record ddd-1017 · checked by Cal Marchetti.