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Is Irma's Original Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 26 Houston, Texas

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Irma's Original is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 21, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: Re-confirmed Sept 2026: Yelp's listing remains updated September 2026 with current hours, and the restaurant's own site (irmasoriginal.com) is live, consistent with the prior finding. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Irma's Original in Houston for the 'Wonder Women' episode, aired 2017-04-21, spotlighting the restaurant's Tex-Mex cooking. Irma's Original is a Tex-Mex restaurant that Irma Galvan opened in 1989 in Houston's warehouse district near downtown, and it later received an America's Classics award from the James Beard Foundation. According to Yelp, whose listing for the restaurant was updated in September 2026, Irma's continues to operate at 22 N Chenevert Street with posted weekday and Saturday hours and had accumulated 681 reviews.

Google Places likewise lists the business as operating at the same Chenevert Street address. The restaurant's own website, irmasoriginal.com, was still online during a September 2026 check, though its page content had not been refreshed since 2020, so the Yelp listing was treated as the more current source.

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

Episode 10
Aired
Title: Wonder Women · What was featured: Tex-Mex cooking at a longtime Houston restaurant
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/irmas-restaurant-houston-4
  2. irmasoriginal.com http://irmasoriginal.com/
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