What Happened to Mom's Tamales After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 7 Los Angeles, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Mom's Tamales has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.
What the source shows: A Yelp listing updated August 2026 and a Foursquare listing both mark Mom's Tamales as permanently closed at its Pasadena Avenue address. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 7, Episode 6
- Aired
- Address 3328 Pasadena Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90031
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Mom's Tamales in "You Picked 'Em" (S7E6), which aired September 7, 2009, highlighting the restaurant's handmade tamales made from a family recipe. Mom's Tamales was a mother-and-daughter-run Mexican restaurant in the Lincoln Heights area of Los Angeles, operating at 3328 Pasadena Avenue. A Yelp listing for the business, updated August 2026, marks it as closed at the Pasadena Avenue address. Foursquare separately lists the restaurant as "Now Closed" at the same address. No available source shows current operating hours, a live menu, or any 2026-dated content indicating the restaurant has reopened since these listings were last updated. Wikipedia's episode listing also flags Mom's Tamales as closed.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/moms-tamales-los-angeles
- Foursquare https://foursquare.com/v/moms-tamales/4adc8a0af964a520012d21e3
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Record ddd-0258 · checked by Cal Marchetti.