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Is Ray's Place Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 35 Anchorage, Alaska

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Ray's Place is listed open on raysplaceak.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: The restaurant's website was live on 2026-09-08, last modified 2025-12-17, with a working ordering system and posted weekday hours, matching Google's operational business-status listing. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Ray's Place in Anchorage, Alaska, spotlighting the restaurant's Vietnamese lunch and dinner menu in the episode 'Pickin' Up and Chowin' Down' (aired 2022-04-15). According to the restaurant's website, Ray's Place has served Vietnamese cuisine in Anchorage since 1993. A 2026-09-08 check of raysplaceak.com found the site online, with a server last-modified date of 2025-12-17, a working online-ordering system, and posted hours of Monday through Friday lunch and dinner service, with weekends closed. The homepage displayed a seasonal notice reading 'closed until Jan 5th,' which appeared to date from a past holiday period rather than the current 2026-09-08 review. Google Places also listed the business as operational at that address during the same review. No notice of permanent closure, relocation, or ownership change was found.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 35

Episode 7
Aired
Title: Pickin' Up and Chowin' Down · What was featured: Ray's Place's Vietnamese lunch and dinner menu
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. raysplaceak.com http://www.raysplaceak.com/
  2. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Ray%27s+Place+2412+Spenard+Rd+Anchorage+AK+99503
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Record ddd-1312 · checked by Cal Marchetti.