What Happened to À La Carts Food Pavilion After Mystery Diners?
Mystery Diners, Season 8 Portland, Oregon
Current status
As of October 2026, À La Carts Food Pavilion has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026.
What the source shows: A Yelp listing for the food cart pavilion, last updated April 2026, marks it permanently closed, at an address (SE 50th & Division) that does not match the 10175 SE Stark St record supplied in the show. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 8, Episode 7
- Aired
- Address 10175 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97216
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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About this show's format: Described as staged/scripted by Wikipedia's article, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report. Surface this note on every record.
What happened after Mystery Diners?
On the Season 8 episode "Food Cart Catastrophe" (Mystery Diners, aired 2014-11-17), Rod and Linda, owners of À La Carts Food Pavilion in Portland, heard complaints from their cart-tenant vendors about a newly hired onsite manager and asked investigator Charles Stiles to look into it. Mystery diners Amber and Joshua went undercover posing as customers and vendors to observe how the manager treated tenants day to day. According to Wikipedia's article on the program, citing its sources, the show's own end-credits disclaimer allows that certain events may have been staged or re-enacted for dramatic effect, and a television critic quoted in the article described the show's setups as unconvincing.
A Yelp listing for the pavilion, last updated in April 2026, marked the business as permanently closed and showed no current hours or menu; it placed the pavilion at SE 50th and Division, not the SE Stark Street address supplied across the show, so the mapping record used to locate this entry may point to a different, similarly named business instead of the actual pod. No dated source found in this check gave an exact closure date, and no successor tenant or replacement food-cart pod at either address was identified. No current social media account for the pavilion was found showing activity dated after the episode's original run.
The episode
Also in Season 8
Season 8: 6 of 13 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners
- Closed
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Ep 4Dar Salam
Open - Closed
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Ep 6Tavern on Main
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Ep 9Rock Island Cafe
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Ep 10Cha Cha Cha Salsaria
Closed - Open
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/a-la-carts-food-pavillion-portland
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Record md-092 · checked by Cal Marchetti.