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What Happened to Maxwell's East Coast Eatery? (Salt Lake City, UT)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 19 Salt Lake City, Utah

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Maxwell's East Coast Eatery has closed — confirmed via tripledlife.com, September 7, 2026.

What the source shows: A Triple D Life page tracking Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives locations, consulted in September 2026, lists Maxwell's East Coast Eatery as closed, with no current hours or ordering activity found for the address. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Maxwell's East Coast Eatery, a sandwich and Italian-American restaurant that operated at 357 South Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. The show's stop, part of the "From Meatballs to Lollipops" episode that aired in 2014, highlighted the restaurant's East Coast-style sandwiches and Italian-American comfort dishes, built around recipes its owners brought from the northeastern United States. A Triple D Life page that tracks Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives filming locations, consulted in September 2026, lists Maxwell's East Coast Eatery as closed. No active hours, ordering page, current menu, or 2026-dated review for the South Main Street address turned up in the research performed for this record, and no successor business or reopening announcement tied to that address was found either.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 19

Aired
Title: From Meatballs to Lollipops · What was featured: East Coast-style sandwiches and Italian-American specialties
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Sources we checked 1 reference

  1. tripledlife.com https://tripledlife.com/restaurant/maxwells-east-coast-eatery/
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Record ddd-0676 · checked by Cal Marchetti.