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What Happened to Red's Chinese After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 29 New Orleans, Louisiana

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Red's Chinese has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: Google's listing marks the business permanently closed as of the 2026-09-08 check, while the restaurant's own website still loads but shows only an undated, apparently pandemic-era reopening message. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Red's Chinese in New Orleans for the episode "Cultural Twist," which aired 2019-01-04, highlighting the restaurant's Sichuan-inspired dishes reworked with Louisiana ingredients, including its dan dan noodles and General Tso's-style entrees. Red's Chinese opened as a fast-casual Chinese restaurant on St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans. According to Google Places, checked 2026-09-08, the business's status is listed as permanently closed. The restaurant's own website, redschinese.com, still loads and displays a banner saying it is open with a set of posted hours, but that page text reads as a pandemic-era reopening notice referencing delivery through D'Livery NOLA and carries no current date, so it does not override the Google Places listing. No fresher dated source describing the restaurant as currently operating was found.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 29

Episode 9
Aired
Title: Cultural Twist · What was featured: Sichuan-inspired dishes reworked with Louisiana ingredients, dan dan noodles
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Red%27s+Chinese+3048+St+Claude+Ave+New+Orleans+LA+70117
  2. redschinese.com https://www.redschinese.com/
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