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Is Perly's Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update (Richmond, VA)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 30 Richmond, Virginia

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Perly's is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 21, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing is now titled 'Updated September 2026' and displays current weekly hours (9:00 AM-3:00 PM daily), consistent with continued operation; no closure or ownership-change signals found. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? 2 episodes

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 30, Episode 19 Aired

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Perly's Restaurant and Delicatessen in downtown Richmond, Virginia, for the episode "Cruisin' Capital Cities" (aired 2019-11-22), spotlighting the deli's modern take on traditional Jewish cuisine. According to Perly's own website, the restaurant serves breakfast and lunch daily and lists a weekend special called the "Weekend Schnorrer." Perly's has operated in downtown Richmond as a Jewish delicatessen serving traditional dishes with a modern spin.

Man v. Food, Season 9, Episode 3 Aired

Man v. Food's January 11, 2022 stop in Richmond featured Perly's, a Jewish delicatessen inside a converted downtown storefront, alongside a visit to nearby Station 2, according to RVAHub's preview of the taping. Perly's built its menu around deli staples like pastrami, corned beef, matzo ball soup, knishes, and latkes, per the restaurant's own site. Style Weekly has credited chef-owner Kevin Roberts with reworking his family's Jewish food heritage into dishes such as latkes, knishes, rugelach, and kugel, while The Washington Post singled out the matzo ball soup among the city's newer dining draws.

Refinery29 also named Perly's in its 50-state brunch roundup. The restaurant still operates daily breakfast-and-lunch service at 111 E. Grace St., with an active online-ordering link and an unchanged deli-and-brunch menu, and Yelp's listing for the address, last updated September 2026, continues to show it as an active business.

The episodes Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Episode 19
Aired
Title: Cruisin' Capital Cities · What was featured: modern Jewish deli fare and breakfast classics at a Richmond institution
Man v. Food, Season 9, Episode 3
Aired
What was featured: Jewish deli specialties: pastrami, matzo ball soup
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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. perlysrichmond.com https://www.perlysrichmond.com/
  2. rvahub.com https://rvahub.com/2022/01/10/proper-pie-co-perlys-and-station-2-on-man-v-food-this-tuesday/
  3. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/perlys-richmond-2
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