What Happened to LaCaraquena After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 10 Falls Church, Virginia Closed 2017
Current status
As of October 2026, LaCaraquena has closed — confirmed via dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com, July 2025.
What the source shows: Re-checked source still reports La Caraquena closed since 2017 at 300 W. Broad Street, Falls Church; no reopening or successor found. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 10, Episode 9
- Aired
- Address 300 W Broad Street, Falls Church, VA 22046
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
On Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives' 'Gone Global' episode (aired 2010-11-08), Guy Fieri visited La Caraquena, a Venezuelan restaurant tucked inside a La Quinta Inn on West Broad Street in Falls Church, Virginia. The restaurant served scratch-made Latin American dishes including stuffed arepas, the beef-and-plantain dish pabellon criollo, and a rum-soaked flan called quesillo. A DinersDriveInsDivesLocations.com profile of the restaurant, updated 2025-07-15, reported that La Caraquena closed for good in 2017 and listed its phone number as permanently closed, adding that no replacement restaurant has since taken over the space. Wikipedia's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives episode list separately flags the restaurant as closed. Census Bureau geocoding corrected the address's ZIP code to 22046, differing from an aggregator's listed 22040.
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Sources we checked
- dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com https://www.dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com/la-caraquena-virginia.html
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Diners,_Drive-Ins_and_Dives_episodes
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Record ddd-0376 · checked by Cal Marchetti.