What Happened to Redballs Rock & Roll Pizza After Mystery Diners?
Mystery Diners, Season 5 Moorpark, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Redballs Rock & Roll Pizza has closed — confirmed via Yelp, February 2026.
What the source shows: Yelp's listing for the featured Moorpark pizzeria, updated February 2026, marks it permanently closed, and Foursquare separately lists it as now closed; the original listing's Places match was a different business in Simi Valley. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 5, Episode 12
- Aired
- Address 13816 Princeton Ave, Moorpark, CA 93021
- Website rockrollpizzaharleys.com
- Show map
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About this show's format: Described as staged/scripted by Wikipedia's article, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report. Surface this note on every record.
What happened after Mystery Diners?
In the Mystery Diners episode "Cover Charge" (aired 2014-03-24), Redballs Rock & Roll Pizza's owners in Moorpark, California told series investigator Charles Stiles that cover-charge revenue from live bands appeared to be going missing, according to Wikipedia's episode summary for the series. Undercover Mystery Diners investigators then worked the floor and found that a manager was pocketing unauthorized cover charges and misdirecting money owed to performing bands, according to the same summary. As Wikipedia's article on the series notes, citing its sources, Mystery Diners' end-credits disclaimer allows that events may be re-enacted for dramatic effect, and the show has drawn criticism from television critics over how staged its confrontations are.
As is typical for the series, Stiles presented the findings to the owners, and the manager was let go. The episode aired the same season as several other Southern California restaurants the series profiled. Redballs Rock & Roll Pizza, opened by David Vieira with musician Elliot Easton, operated at 13816 Princeton Ave in Moorpark; Yelp's listing for that address, updated in February 2026, marks it permanently closed, and Foursquare separately lists it as now closed. A different, similarly named pizzeria, Rock & Roll Pizza at Harley's Valley Bowl in Simi Valley, operates at a separate address and should not be confused with the Moorpark location featured in the episode.
The episode
Also in Season 5
Season 5: 4 of 13 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 5Speisekammer
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Ep 6Bistro Baffi
Closed - Closed
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Ep 8Sam's Tavern
New owners - Closed
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Ep 10Taverna Mazi
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Ep 11The Hangout
Open - Closed
Nearest open restaurants
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Food Paradise
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Food Paradise
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Food Paradise
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Food Paradise
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Food Paradise
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Food Paradise
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/rock-and-roll-pizza-moorpark-3
- Foursquare https://app.foursquare.com/v/red-balls-rock--roll-pizza/51afa0da498e35dfc996b9ca/menu
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Diners
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Record md-059 · checked by Cal Marchetti.