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Is La Pines Café Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 11 Slidell, Louisiana

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, La Pines Café is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: Yelp's business listing for La Pines Cafe, updated July 2026, showed an active page with 173 reviews and no closure notice. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? 2 episodes

Part 1 — Season 11, Episode 6 Aired

On Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives ("Signature Sandwiches," aired 2011-02-07), Guy Fieri stopped at La Pines Café in Slidell, Louisiana, where chef Jim Vandenburg built a smoked prime rib po' boy, piled with horseradish and drenched in au jus. The segment also covered the cafe's broader menu of Cajun and Creole comfort food, served in a casual, family-owned setting. La Pines Café is a breakfast-and-lunch restaurant on Robert Boulevard in Slidell, on Louisiana's Northshore near New Orleans, and appears on some directories under the name L.A. Pines Cafe. According to Yelp, the business's listing was updated in July 2026 and showed 173 customer reviews with no closure notice attached to the page, indicating the cafe was still operating under its original name and location as of that update.

Part 2 — Season 43, Episode 13 Aired

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: Triple D Nation revisited La Pines Café in Slidell, LA in the check-in episode "Triple D Nation: Feel-Good Flavor", which aired September 18, 2026, with Guy Fieri returning for its seafood-stuffed shells in a creamy crawfish sauce and its country-fried chicken, according to Food Network's recipe page for the seafood-stuffed shells.

The episodes Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Episode 6
Aired
Title: Signature Sandwiches · What was featured: smoked prime rib po' boy with horseradish and au jus
Season 43, Episode 13
Aired
Title: Triple D Nation: Feel-Good Flavor · What was featured: Its seafood-stuffed shells and country-fried chicken · Role: Return visit

Synopsis (foodnetwork.com) : Guy returns to home-style spots: a scratch-made pizza shop in Austin, a North Shore New Orleans comfort-food restaurant, and a Chicago brother-sister team serving Korean street food.

How Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/la-pines-cafe-slidell
  2. lapinescafe.com https://lapinescafe.com/
  3. foodnetwork.com https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/seafood-stuffed-shells-22838866
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Record ddd-0406 · checked by Cal Marchetti.