What Happened to Pizza Junction After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 8 North Tonawanda, New York Closed October 2022
Current status
As of October 2026, Pizza Junction has closed — confirmed via pmq.com, October 2022.
What the source shows: PMQ Pizza reported that Pizza Junction abruptly closed its Erie Avenue dining room in October 2022, after 40 years in business, when a planned sale fell through. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 8, Episode 2
- Aired
- Address 1269 Erie Avenue, North Tonawanda, NY 14120
- 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 Pizza Junction in North Tonawanda, New York, in the episode "Pizza, Pork & Paprikash," which aired 2010-01-11. The segment showcased the pizzeria's wood-fired pies at its longtime Erie Avenue storefront. Pizza Junction operated as a sit-down pizzeria at 1269 Erie Avenue for roughly 40 years. According to PMQ Pizza, a trade publication covering the pizzeria industry, Pizza Junction closed its Erie Avenue dining room in October 2022 after a planned sale of the business to a new owner fell through at the last minute; the operators said they would continue filling orders only through an online 'virtual pizzeria' selling frozen pizzas rather than reopening the dine-in restaurant. No reporting of the physical location reopening was found in the available evidence.
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Sources we checked
- pmq.com https://www.pmq.com/40-year-old-pizza-junction-shuts-down/
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Record ddd-0286 · checked by Cal Marchetti.