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

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 26 Temecula, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, HoBo's BBQ has closed — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing carries an explicit closed designation updated June 2026, while Google Places still shows the business as operational, and a Tripadvisor review suggests a replacement business at the same corridor. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited HoBo's BBQ in Temecula for the 'Burgers, Beef and Barbecue' episode, aired 2017-05-26, spotlighting the restaurant's BBQ lasagna and Lumber Jack sandwich, according to a Food Network restaurant profile. HoBo's BBQ was a barbecue restaurant on Rancho California Road that the same Food Network profile described as the only Inland Empire restaurant filmed for the show. According to Yelp, whose page for the business carries a 'closed' designation and was updated in June 2026, HoBo's BBQ is no longer operating at that address.

Google Places, by contrast, still lists the business as operational, so its current status is not fully settled from these sources alone. A Tripadvisor review referencing the same Rancho California Road corridor describes a barbecue business called Let's Grub Bbq, suggesting the location may now operate under a different name pending further confirmation.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 26

Episode 13
Aired
Title: Burgers, Beef and Barbecue · What was featured: BBQ lasagna and the Lumber Jack sandwich
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/hobos-bbq-temecula-5
  2. Tripadvisor https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g33165-d8492716-r532992185-Let_s_Grub_Bbq-Temecula_California.html
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