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Is La Camoronera Restaurant & Fish Market Still Open? (Miami, FL)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 6 Miami, Florida

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, La Camoronera Restaurant & Fish Market is open — confirmed via Yelp, September 2026.

What the source shows: A Yelp listing (updated September 2026, 1,034 reviews) and the business's own current website, lacamaronera.com, both show La Camaronera Seafood Joint & Fish Market open at 1952 W Flagler St in Little Havana, a different address than the one given in the original listing. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? 3 episodes

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 6, Episode 11 Aired

On "Old Time Favorites" (Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, aired 2009-06-22), Guy Fieri visited La Camaronera in Miami's Little Havana, featuring the seafood counter's camarones fritos and fresh fish sandwiches, made the way the Garcia family's grandparents cooked in Cuba, according to Food Network. La Camaronera Seafood Joint & Fish Market is a family-run fish market and counter founded by Cuban fisherman brothers, operating for more than 40 years at 1952 W Flagler Street, according to the business's own website. The New York Times included La Camaronera on its 2024 list of the 50 best restaurants in the United States, according to the business's website. A Yelp listing updated September 2026 shows more than 1,000 reviews and continued activity at the Flagler Street location, and the business's own site remained live and current during a check on 2026-09-08, together confirming the counter is still open in Little Havana.

Food Paradise, Season 17, Episode 2

The episode featured La Camaronera Seafood Joint & Fish Market's counter-service seafood at its longstanding spot on West Flagler Street in Miami. The business operates as a seafood market and walk-up eatery in the city's Little Havana-adjacent corridor. The business's website, checked on September 8, 2026, listed current hours -- Sunday through Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Friday-Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. -- along with its address and phone number, consistent with Google Places' operational status for 1952 W Flagler St.

You Gotta Eat Here!, Season 3, Episode 26 Aired

TVDB's summary of the 'Miami Edition' hour of You Gotta Eat Here! (S3E26, first aired 2014-07-04) lists fried snapper with black-eyed pea fritters first among its dishes, in the same order as the restaurants in the episode title, and Prime Video's season 3 listing describes the hour as deep-fried Cuban seafood in Little Havana, naming La Cameronera (its spelling) among the stops. La Camaronera Seafood Joint and Fish Market's own website, read 2026-10-20, calls it the original Miami fish spot, gives the address as 1952 West Flagler Street, and lists pan con minuta, fried shrimp, fried oysters, fried calamari and a snapper sandwich. The site lists hours of 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, with a phone number and a menu page.

The episodes Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Aired
Title: Old Time Favorites · What was featured: camarones fritos (fried shrimp) and fresh fish sandwiches
Air date not confirmed
Title: Hook, Line & Dinner · What was featured: counter-service seafood at the walk-up fish market
Aired
Title: Miami Edition · What was featured: Fried snapper with black-eyed pea fritters

Synopsis (tvmaze.com) : The host searches for the best eats that Miami has to offer as he tries fried snapper and black-eyed pea fritters; pork chops with an apple-raisin garnish; and a Cuban hamburger.

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Sources we checked 6 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/la-camaronera-seafood-joint-and-fish-market-miami-2
  2. lacamaronera.com https://lacamaronera.com/
  3. lacamaronera.com http://lacamaronera.com/
  4. TheTVDB https://thetvdb.com/series/you-gotta-eat-here/episodes/4957898
  5. primevideo.com https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0RK5DFMJZDZT14VNJ5YK15NDGW
  6. lacamaronera.com https://www.lacamaronera.com/
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