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What Happened to Joy Cafe After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? (Atlanta, GA)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 23 Atlanta, Georgia

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Joy Cafe has closed — confirmed via flavortownusa.com, November 2022.

What the source shows: A one-time web search located the show's Joy Cafe at 316 Pharr Road NE via FlavorTown USA's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives location fan site, which tags the address closed; a November 2022 user comment on that page cites Google Maps marking it permanently closed. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives stopped at this Atlanta comfort-food cafe for its homestyle Southern cooking in "Homeland Favorites" (aired 2015-08-28). Joy Cafe operated at 316 Pharr Road NE, near Buckhead, under chef and co-owner Joy Austin-Beber, whose tomato soup recipe the Atlanta Journal-Constitution featured in a 2014-06-11 article. FlavorTown USA's location fan site for the show lists the Pharr Road address as closed, and a reviewer on that page wrote in November 2022 that Google Maps marked the location permanently closed. A Yelp page for a Joy Cafe at a separate Peachtree Street address is also tagged closed as of a 2026-06 update, though it is not confirmed to be the same location that appeared on the show.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 23

Episode 5
Aired
Title: Homeland Favorites · What was featured: homestyle Southern comfort dishes, including its tomato soup
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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. flavortownusa.com https://www.flavortownusa.com/locations/861/joy-cafe
  2. ajc.com https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/food--cooking/from-the-menu-joy-cafe/g58hq0ubmXghrleOziOzrN/
  3. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/joy-cafe-atlanta
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