Is Occo Kitchen & Bar Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Current status
As of October 2026, Occo Kitchen & Bar is listed open on occokitchen.com, reviewed by our team on October 19, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
Last verified
What the source shows: The restaurant's own website, fetched 2026-10-19, lists downtown hours and an ordering widget alongside 2025 holiday links, and Google Places shows it operational.
- Season / episode Season 31, Episode 3
- Original air date
- Address 160 Bay St, Ottawa, ON K1R 7X8
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
OCCO Kitchen & Bar appeared on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives in the episode "Off the Beaten Path," which aired 2020-01-03. Food Network's restaurant page lists the East Coast Donair, a gyro-style sandwich of thin ground-beef patties with cheese, fresh and pickled vegetables and sweet donair sauce, along with the cod cakes, and Food Network's episode listing describes Newfoundland specialties built on a centuries-old cod cake recipe. The Ottawa Business Journal reported on 2019-08-29 that owner Mark Steele, a Newfoundland native, opened the first OCCO in Orléans about four years earlier and added a downtown location in the Albert at Bay Suite Hotel in March 2019, and that Guy Fieri was seen on the downtown patio with a camera crew. The restaurant's website, as of October 2026, listed downtown dine-in and takeout hours of 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and weekend brunch from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., an online-ordering widget, and a link to a 2025 holiday brunch page. Google's listing showed the Bay Street location as operational in October 2026.
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- Episode title
- Off the Beaten Path
- What was featured
- East Coast donair and Newfoundland cod cakes from a centuries-old recipe
- Role
- Featured restaurant
- Name on the broadcast
- Occo Kitchen & Bar
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Visit info
- Address
- 160 Bay St, Ottawa, ON K1R 7X8
- Venue type
- restaurant
- Official website
- occokitchen.com
- State hub
- TV restaurants in Ontario
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Sources
- foodnetwork.com — https://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/no-state/ottawa/occo-kitchen-and-bar-restaurant
- foodnetwork.com — https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/diners-drive-ins-and-dives/episodes/31/p/2
- obj.ca — https://www.obj.ca/article/flavortown-north-tv-foodie-guy-fieri-dines-ottawas-occo-kitchen
- occokitchen.com — http://occokitchen.com/
- Google — https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=OCCO+Kitchen+Bar+160+Bay+St+Ottawa+ON
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