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Is Red Wagon Pizza Company Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 25 Minneapolis, Minnesota

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Red Wagon Pizza Company is listed open on redwagon-mpls.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: The restaurant's website returned HTTP 200 on 2026-09-08 with current hours, an active ordering widget, and menu content consistent with an operating pizzeria. How we decide a status →

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

Part 1 — Season 25, Episode 6 Aired

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Red Wagon Pizza Company for its wood-fired pies in the episode "Sausage, Seafood and Shawarma," which aired September 9, 2016. Red Wagon is a wood-fired pizzeria on Penn Avenue South in south Minneapolis, built around scratch-made dough and a rotating list of specialty pizzas. According to the restaurant's website (redwagon-mpls.com), checked 2026-09-08, the site returned normally and listed current hours of Thursday 4-9 p.m. and Friday through Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m., with Mondays closed. The site also showed an active online ordering system, a promotional feature called Pizza with Pete, and options for pickup, delivery, catering, and private events, alongside its food and drink menus. The site's booking page also linked to online reservations and a monthly events calendar.

Part 2 — Season 32, Episode 3 Aired

On the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives episode "Takeout: Home Delivery" (aired 2020-05-01), Guy Fieri connected by video call with Red Wagon Pizza Company in Minneapolis, according to Food Network's episode page. According to IMDb's plot summary for the episode, the segment was built around one of the pizzeria's Minneapolis-style pies.

The episodes Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Episode 6
Aired
Title: Sausage, Seafood and Shawarma · What was featured: Wood-fired pizzas with scratch-made dough and specialty topping combinations
Season 32, Episode 3
Aired
Title: Takeout: Home Delivery · What was featured: a Minneapolis-style pizza guided by video call
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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. redwagon-mpls.com http://www.redwagon-mpls.com/
  2. foodnetwork.com https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/diners-drive-ins-and-dives/episodes/takeout-home-delivery
  3. imdb.com https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13006818/plotsummary/
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Record ddd-0907 · checked by Cal Marchetti.