Is Rutt's Hawaiian Cafe Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 20 Los Angeles, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Rutt's Hawaiian Cafe is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: The cafe's own website was unreachable (HTTP 403), but its Yelp listing showed ongoing photo and review activity current to September 2026. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 20, Episode 1
- Aired
- Address 11707 Washington Place, Los Angeles, CA 90066
- Now called Rutt's Hawaiian Cafe & Catering
- Website ruttscafe.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Rutt's Hawaiian Cafe in Los Angeles, California, highlighting the cafe's Hawaiian plate-lunch specialties. Rutt's is a family-owned Hawaiian cafe and catering business that has served the Los Angeles area since 1976, according to its Yelp business listing. The cafe's own website returned a server error on the 2026-09-08 site check, so it could not be used to confirm current operations. According to Rutt's Hawaiian Cafe's Yelp page, updated 2026-09, the business at 11707 Washington Place continued to draw new photos and reviews, and a separate Facebook business page for the cafe remained active. A second Rutt's Hawaiian Cafe & Catering location in Gardena, California, also appears in current listings, according to Yelp, though it is a separate address from the Washington Place location shown here.
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Record ddd-0702 · checked by Cal Marchetti.