What Happened to Joe Tess Place After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 5 Omaha, Nebraska Closed June 2022
Current status
As of October 2026, Joe Tess Place has closed — confirmed via omahaexploration.com, August 12, 2023.
What the source shows: Omaha Exploration article (2023-08-12) and Yelp listing (updated August 2026) both describe the restaurant as closed; it closed permanently in June 2022 per multiple Omaha news outlets, and the building at 5424 S 24th St remains for sale. Re-confirmed via web search September 2026 with no reopening signal. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 5, Episode 5
- Aired
- Address 5424 S 24th St, Omaha, NE 68107
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Joe Tess Place in Omaha for the episode "Long Time Legends," which aired 2009-01-05, spotlighting the restaurant's fried carp sandwich. Joe Tess Place was a seafood restaurant at 5424 S 24th Street that had served the sandwich since 1967. According to Omaha Exploration, in an article dated 2023-08-12 titled "Gone But Not Forgotten," Joe Tess Place had closed after decades serving the neighborhood. A Yelp business page updated in August 2026 also marks the listing "CLOSED." Both sources describe the business as having permanently ceased operating rather than temporarily closed. No source found indicates the business reopened at this or another Omaha address.
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Ep 5Big Jim's
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Sources we checked
- omahaexploration.com https://omahaexploration.com/2023/08/12/joe-tess/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/joe-tess-place-omaha
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Record ddd-0177 · checked by Cal Marchetti.