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What Happened to Mac's Fish & Chip Shop After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 13 Santa Barbara, California Closed 2016

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Mac's Fish & Chip Shop has closed — confirmed via santabarbara.com, November 30, 2016.

What the source shows: A Santa Barbara dining column reports Mac's Fish & Chip Shop closed in November 2016, with Hana Kitchen taking over the same State Street space. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Mac's Fish & Chip Shop on State Street in Santa Barbara for the 'Global Traditions' episode that aired 2012-01-23, spotlighting the British-style restaurant's fish and chips made with Alaskan cod. According to a November 30, 2016 report on santabarbara.com's 'Restaurant Guy' column, Mac's Fish & Chip Shop closed after roughly six years in business, with the same 503 State Street space subsequently taken over by Hana Kitchen. A Yelp listing for the address, updated February 2026, continues to mark Mac's Fish & Chip Shop as permanently closed. Location data initially associated with this record pointed to an unrelated, similarly named restaurant, Mac's Fish & Chips in St. Paul, Minnesota; that business operates independently and has no connection to the Santa Barbara restaurant featured on the show.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 13

Episode 7
Aired
Title: Global Traditions · What was featured: British-style fish and chips made with Alaskan cod
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. santabarbara.com https://www.santabarbara.com/dining/news/2016/11/30/macs-fish-chips-closes-will-become-hana-kitchen/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/macs-fish-and-chip-shop-santa-barbara
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Record ddd-0481 · checked by Cal Marchetti.