Is Happy Gillis Café & Hangout Still Open? (Kansas City, MO)
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 10 Kansas City, Missouri
Current status
As of October 2026, Happy Gillis Café & Hangout shows as open per Google location data; not yet reviewed by our team.
What the source shows: Google Places lists the business as operational at 549 Gillis St, Kansas City, MO 64106 on 2026-09-08. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 10, Episode 1
- Aired
- Address 549 Gillis Street, Kansas City, MO 64106
- Website happygillis.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Happy Gillis Café & Hangout in the 2010-08-30 episode "Family Joints" (S10E1), highlighting the café's cola-and-wine-marinated flank steak sandwich. Happy Gillis is a husband-and-wife-owned breakfast and lunch café at 549 Gillis Street in Kansas City, Missouri, known for biscuits and gravy and other brunch fare, plus a monthly art crawl held from April through October. The café's own contact page, checked 2026-09-07, listed weekly operating hours. A Yelp business page, also checked 2026-09-07 and last updated in August 2026, carried the label CLOSED in its page title alongside 603 reviews for the same address. In a September 2026 check, Google's listing for 549 Gillis Street showed the café operating, in line with the hours on its own website.
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Sources we checked
- happygillis.com https://happygillis.com/contact/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/happy-gillis-cafe-and-hangout-kansas-city
- foodnetwork.com https://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/mo/kansas-city/happy-gillis-cafe-hangout-restaurant
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Record ddd-0356 · checked by Cal Marchetti.