What Happened to La Santisima Gourmet Taco Shop? (Phoenix, AZ)
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 22 Phoenix, Arizona
Current status
As of October 2026, La Santisima Gourmet Taco Shop has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, September 14, 2026.
What the source shows: The business's own online-ordering page for the 4117 N 16th St, Phoenix location is banner-tagged 'THIS IS A NON LIVE LOCATION' with online ordering closed. Yelp separately lists this same Phoenix location (slug la-santisima-phoenix-2) as CLOSED, updated August 2026. This resolves the earlier ambiguity about which location in the small chain the closure applied to -- it is specifically the Phoenix/16th St location. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 22, Episode 8
- Aired
- Address 4117 North 16th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85016
- Website lasantisimagourmet.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
For 'Sweet, Savory and Saucy' (aired 2015-04-17), Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited La Santisima Gourmet Taco Shop in Phoenix, Arizona, where Guy Fieri sampled a Nogada Taco and Oaxacan Black Mole Chicken from a menu built around Mexico City-style tinga, Yucatan-style pork and a wide salsa bar. The restaurant grew from its original Central Phoenix location into a small chain with additional outlets in Glendale and Flagstaff, according to the business's own promotional materials. The company's website, checked 2026-09-08, displayed a banner marking a location as 'Temporary Closed' and a 'non live location,' though it was not clear whether that notice applied to the original 16th Street address or another store in the chain. No dated news coverage or a clearly labeled current listing for the 16th Street location was found to resolve the ambiguity.
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Sources we checked
- lasantisimagourmet.com https://lasantisimagourmet.com/
- foodnetwork.com https://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/az/phoenix/la-santisima-gourmet-taco-shop-restaurant
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Record ddd-0778 · checked by Cal Marchetti.