Is La Santa Maria Kitchen Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 43 Tampa, Florida
Current status
As of October 2026, La Santa Maria Kitchen is listed open on DoorDash, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: A 2026-09-08 search found La Santa Maria Kitchen listed as an active food truck taking delivery orders on DoorDash and Postmates, with a separate Yelp page describing it as a food truck rather than the unrelated steakhouse the original listing's Places match had returned. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 43, Episode 9
- Aired
- Address Tampa, FL
- Website Facebook
We have not confirmed map coordinates for this address yet.
What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured La Santa Maria Kitchen in the episode "Hand to Mouth," which aired 2026-07-10, highlighting the Tampa food truck's world-fusion menu of tacos, empanadas, and hand pies drawing on Latin American, Asian, and Caribbean influences. According to its DoorDash listing, the business operates as a mobile food truck rather than from a fixed storefront, taking delivery and pickup orders through platforms including DoorDash and Postmates. A 2026-09-08 search found the truck's DoorDash and Yelp pages both still active, describing La Santa Maria Kitchen as a food truck serving the Tampa area.
The location record supplied across the show had matched to an unrelated Tampa steakhouse; that address was set aside once the search confirmed La Santa Maria Kitchen has no single fixed address, operating instead from a commissary location used for delivery orders. No dated evidence of a closure was found.
The episode
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Sources we checked
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Record ddd-1607 · checked by Cal Marchetti.