Is Podnah's Pit Barbecue Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 7 Portland, Oregon
Current status
As of October 2026, Podnah's Pit Barbecue is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: A direct site check found podnahspit.com live with an active ordering option, and Wikipedia's July 2026 revision describes the restaurant in the present tense as an operating business. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 7, Episode 5
- Aired
- Address 1625 Northeast Killingsworth Street, Portland, OR 97211
- Website podnahspit.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Podnah's Pit Barbecue in "Only At This Joint" (S7E5), which aired August 31, 2009, highlighting the restaurant's Texas-style smoked barbecue. Podnah's Pit Barbecue is a barbecue restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Northeast neighborhood, according to Wikipedia. A direct check of the restaurant's website on September 8, 2026 found the site live at podnahspit.com, returning a normal page load, still titled "Podnah's Pit Barbecue," and offering an active online-ordering option. Wikipedia's Podnah's Pit Barbecue entry, last revised July 11, 2026, describes the business in the present tense as an operating barbecue restaurant in Portland. Together, the current site and the recently revised Wikipedia entry indicate the restaurant remains open at 1625 Northeast Killingsworth Street.
The episode
Also in Season 7
Season 7: 26 of 39 still open · 2 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 4La Texanita
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Ep 4Tre Kronor
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Ep 5Whale's Rib
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Ep 6Kenny & Ziggy's
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Ep 6Mom's Tamales
Closed
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Sources we checked
- podnahspit.com https://www.podnahspit.com/
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podnah%27s_Pit_Barbecue
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Record ddd-0254 · checked by Cal Marchetti.