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What Happened to Little Tea Shop After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 3 Memphis, Tennessee

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Little Tea Shop is listed closed on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 14, 2026 and cross-checked against memphisflyer.com; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact with the business.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing for The Little Tea Shop (69 Monroe Ave, Memphis) is marked CLOSED, last updated June 2026. The Memphis Flyer's Little Tea Shop coverage (which the prior pass characterized as an undated 'extended closure' story) is dated June 10, 2020 and documents an indefinite pandemic-era closure that owner Suhair Lauck said would end 'sooner or later' -- it never reports a reopening. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Little Tea Shop in "American Classics," which aired 2008-05-12, spotlighting the tea room's homestyle Southern lunch plates. Little Tea Shop was a lunch counter and tea room that had operated in downtown Memphis, Tennessee since 1918, long known as one of the city's oldest restaurants. The Memphis Flyer's article "Little Tea Shop: Still Closed for Now" describes an extended closure of the Monroe Avenue location without giving a firm date. A Yelp listing updated 2026-06 separately associates the business with a Peabody Avenue address, raising the possibility of a relocation rather than a permanent closure. No owner statement, licensing record, or dated news account was found confirming either outcome, so this record's status could not be settled from the available sources.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 3

Episode 7
Aired
Title: American Classics · What was featured: Homestyle Southern lunch plates at a downtown tea room
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. memphisflyer.com https://www.memphisflyer.com/little-tea-shop-still-closed-for-now/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-little-tea-shop-memphis
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