What Happened to Schellville Grill After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Part 1 — Season 9, Episode 6 Aired May 31, 2010

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Schellville Grill in the Grilled, Smoked & Sauced episode, S9E6, which aired 2010-05-31, highlighting chef Matthew Nagan's Austin-style barbecue served with Tuscan-inspired sides. Schellville Grill was an eco-friendly roadhouse just outside Sonoma, California, known for smoked tri-tip sandwiches, a build-your-own burger, and a housemade barbecue sauce that regulars often bought bottled to take home. A DDD-fan directory listing at dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com, updated May 2025, lists the restaurant's phone number as permanently closed. A separate Yelp listing for the business, updated February 2026, similarly marks it closed. No dated news report describing the circumstances or exact date of the closure was located, so those details remain unconfirmed. Wikipedia's flag of the business as closed served only as a lead confirmed independently through these two listings.

Part 2 — Season 22, Episode 15 Aired March 9, 2015

On Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives' "All Beefed Up" (aired 2015-03-09), Guy Fieri recommended the smoked tri-tip sandwich at Schellville Grill, a Sonoma restaurant blending wine country fare with Austin-style barbecue, according to Food Network. Founder Matthew Nagan opened the restaurant at the corner of Broadway and Highway 121 in February 2002. The Sonoma Index-Tribune reported on 2020-02-07 that Nagan sold Schellville Grill to Jordan Kivelstadt, who closed his own Kivelstadt Cellars tasting room to take over, along with Matthew Tucker of Pangloss Cellars. A Yelp listing updated 2025-09 marks Schellville Grill permanently closed, showing 528 reviews and 261 photos accumulated over the restaurant's run, and Triple D Life's restaurant archive separately lists the location as closed, with neither source naming a new occupant of the Broadway and Highway 121 property.