Is Grubstake Diner Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 2 San Francisco, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Grubstake Diner is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on October 18, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: A Yelp listing updated July 2026 shows current hours and April 2026 reviews, and the diner's live website (grubstakesf.com) confirms late-night operating hours, while the address's originally-listed website (sfgrubstake.com) does not resolve. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 2, Episode 8
- Aired
- Address 1525 Pine Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
- Website grubstakesf.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured the Grubstake, a late-night diner on Pine Street in San Francisco's Lower Nob Hill/Polk Street area, on the episode "One of a Kind" (aired 2007-11-19). The show highlighted the diner's burger-forward, comfort-food menu served into the early morning hours. Grubstake occupies a retrofitted rail car dining room and has operated in the neighborhood for decades. A Yelp listing updated July 2026 shows the restaurant open with hours running from 6:30 p.m. to as late as 4 a.m. depending on the night, and customer reviews posted as recently as April 2026.
The diner's current website, grubstakesf.com, is live and describes the Grubstake as open until 4 a.m.; the web address originally on file for the business, sfgrubstake.com, no longer resolves. Combined, the Yelp activity and the working current site indicate the diner remains open under the same name in the same Polk Street-area location it held when it appeared on the show.
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/grubstake-diner-san-francisco
- grubstakesf.com https://www.grubstakesf.com/
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Record ddd-0061 · checked by Cal Marchetti.