What Happened to Piece of Meat After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 29 New Orleans, Louisiana
Current status
As of October 2026, Piece of Meat has closed — confirmed via dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com, December 28, 2025.
What the source shows: A Diners Drive-Ins and Dives Locations fan-site page updated 2025-12-28 and a separate Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives listings page both mark Piece of Meat permanently closed, though neither gives a specific closure date or reason. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 29, Episode 13
- Aired
- Address 3301 Bienville St, New Orleans, LA 70119
- Website cochonbutcher.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Piece of Meat in the "Eating Up New Orleans" episode, which aired March 1, 2019, highlighting the restaurant's boudin egg rolls and its own house-made bologna, served as a signature sandwich. Piece of Meat operated as a nose-to-tail butcher shop and full-service restaurant at 3301 Bienville St in New Orleans, running in the $$ price range. According to Diners Drive-Ins and Dives Locations, a restaurant fan-site page updated December 28, 2025, Piece of Meat is listed as permanently closed. A separate Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives listings page independently marks the restaurant closed as well, describing it in the past tense as a spot that had left a lasting impression on visitors, though neither page gives a specific closure date or reason.
The episode
Also in Season 29
Season 29: 36 of 58 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 12Purgatory
Closed - Open
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Ep 12Valentina's
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Ep 13Avery's on Tulane
Closed -
Ep 13Seither's Seafood
Open -
Ep 14Holy Roller
Closed - Renamed
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Ep 14Vinny's Bakery
Closed
Nearest open restaurants
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Food Paradise
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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives · Food Paradise · You Gotta Eat Here!
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Best Thing I Ever Ate
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Food Paradise
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Sources we checked
- dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com https://www.dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com/piece-of-meat-louisiana.html
- dinersdriveinsdives.com https://www.dinersdriveinsdives.com/Piece-Of-Meat-New-Orleans-LA
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Record ddd-1101 · checked by Cal Marchetti.