Is Papa What You Cooking Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 43 Reno, Nevada
Current status
As of October 2026, Papa What You Cooking is listed open on papawhatyoucooking.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: Papa What You Cooking's website returned an HTTP last-modified header of 2026-09-08 and a working online-ordering page, though its title and body text did not render in the automated check. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 43, Episode 2
- Aired
- Address 50 S Virginia St #21, Reno, NV 89501
- Website papawhatyoucooking.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
On 'Southern, Sweets, and Spam' (aired 2026-01-30), Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Papa What You Cooking in Reno, spotlighting the restaurant's basement-level space on South Virginia Street. Papa What You Cooking operates 'In The Basement' of a South Virginia Street building in downtown Reno, according to Google Places. Since the episode, papawhatyoucooking.com's server recorded a last-modified date of 2026-09-08 -- the same day this record was checked -- alongside a working online-ordering page, according to papawhatyoucooking.com. The site's homepage did not return readable title or body text during the check, likely because its content loads through a script the automated check could not render, and Google Places separately lists the business as operational at the South Virginia Street address. No independent news coverage of a closure was found either way.
The episode
Also in Season 43
Season 43: 44 of 47 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 1Jane Bond BBQ
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Ep 1Mum Foods
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Ep 1R Town Pizza
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Ep 2Huli Sue's
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Ep 2Pat & Betty
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Ep 3Foothills Grange
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Ep 3Shiki Menya
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Sources we checked
- papawhatyoucooking.com https://papawhatyoucooking.com/
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Record ddd-1587 · checked by Cal Marchetti.