What Happened to Johnny Garlic's After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 14 Santa Rosa, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Johnny Garlic's has closed — confirmed via turnto23.com, December 2016.
What the source shows: A local news report on turnto23.com stated that the Johnny Garlic's location on Farmers Lane in Santa Rosa closed permanently by December 2016; Yelp's page for that address, updated May 2026, still carries a CLOSED label. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 14, Episode 6
- Aired
- Address 1460 Farmers Ln, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
- 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 Johnny Garlic's in the 'Unexpected Eats' episode, aired 2012-05-07, during a visit to the Santa Rosa, California restaurant's California-fusion menu. Johnny Garlic's was a restaurant chain founded by chef Guy Fieri, with a location on Farmers Lane in Santa Rosa. According to a report from Turn to 23, the Farmers Lane location closed permanently by December 2016. Yelp's page for a second Santa Rosa location, on Piner Road, updated November 2025, and its page for the Farmers Lane location, updated May 2026, both display 'CLOSED' labels alongside hundreds of archived customer reviews. No source found describes either Santa Rosa location as having reopened or been replaced by a successor restaurant under new ownership.
The episode
Also in Season 14
Season 14: 16 of 34 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 5Cane Rosso
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Ep 5Counter Cafe
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Ep 7Pecan Lodge
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Sources we checked
- turnto23.com https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/johnny-garlics-permanently-closed
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/johnny-garlics-santa-rosa
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/johnny-garlics-santa-rosa-6
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Record ddd-0511 · checked by Cal Marchetti.