Is Harold's Café Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 1 Gaffney, South Carolina
Current status
As of October 2026, Harold's Café is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: A Yelp listing updated July 2026 shows Harold's Restaurant active with 80 reviews at 602 N Limestone Street, and the business maintains its own current website. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 1, Episode 10
- Aired
- Address 602 N Limestone St, Gaffney, SC 29340
- Website haroldsrestaurant.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Food Network) featured Harold's Café in Gaffney, South Carolina, in the July 2007 episode "Worth the Trip," one of the show's first-season stops. Islands.com describes the restaurant as a longtime hole-in-the-wall serving Southern comfort food and states it has served customers since 1932. A Yelp listing updated in July 2026 shows Harold's Restaurant active at 602 North Limestone Street with 80 reviews and 94 photos, and lists hours of 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The business maintains its own website, haroldsrestaurant.com, and a listed phone line at 864-489-9153. Harold's appears to have continued operating in the same Gaffney location for more than nine decades since opening, per Islands.com, well beyond its original 2007 Food Network appearance.
The episode
Also in Season 1
Season 1: 21 of 37 still open · 5 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 9Byways Cafe
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- Renamed
- Renamed
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Ep 10Mo Gridder's BBQ
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Ep 11Beacon Drive-In
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Ep 11Kelly's Diner
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/harolds-restaurant-gaffney
- islands.com https://www.islands.com/2059359/harolds-restaurant-south-carolinas-coolest-hole-wall-quaint-old-school-diner-featured-guy-fieri/
- haroldsrestaurant.com https://haroldsrestaurant.com/
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Record ddd-0030 · checked by Cal Marchetti.