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Is Las Tortugas Deli Mexicana Still Open? (Memphis, TN)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 38 Memphis, Tennessee

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Las Tortugas Deli Mexicana is open — confirmed via Yelp, July 2026.

What the source shows: A Yelp listing for the East Memphis location was updated 2026-07, and Google's listing for the same address shows it operational, despite an unrefreshed 2020 copyright notice on one page of the business's own site. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Las Tortugas Deli Mexicana in Memphis, which its own website describes as serving authentic Mexican cooking modeled on Mexico City-style cuisine, in the episode "Bird, Belly and Beef" (aired 2024-02-23). The restaurant operates two Memphis-area locations, in East Memphis and Germantown, according to its website, delimexicana.com. A Yelp listing for the East Memphis location at 6300 Poplar Avenue was updated 2026-07 and showed 96 reviews, and Google's business listing for the same address shows it as operational. The restaurant's own site listed Saturday hours of 10:30am to 8:00pm and a working online-ordering link, though the specific page carried an older 2020 copyright notice, suggesting that particular page had not been refreshed as recently as the Yelp listing.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 38

Episode 16
Aired
Title: Bird, Belly and Beef · What was featured: authentic Mexican cuisine styled on Mexico City cooking
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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/las-tortugas-deli-mexicana-memphis-3
  2. delimexicana.com http://delimexicana.com/
  3. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=35.1019497,-89.85258979999999
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