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Is Skillet Diner Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Seattle, WA)

Food Paradise, Season 19 Seattle, Washington

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Skillet Diner is open — confirmed via capitolhillseattle.com, November 2025.

What the source shows: News coverage from November 2025 reports that the Skillet Counter location inside Seattle Center's Armory stayed open while three other Skillet locations closed, and Seattle Center's own venue directory, checked 2026-09-08, still lists it as an active food-and-drink option. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Food Paradise's 'Neighborhood Hangouts' episode featured Skillet Diner, a counter-service outpost of Seattle's Skillet restaurant group known for bacon jam burgers and diner-style comfort food. The matched location operates inside Seattle Center as Skillet Counter, part of the Armory food hall in the Uptown neighborhood. CHS Capitol Hill Seattle News reported in 2025-11 that Skillet closed its original Capitol Hill diner and its Post Alley location on November 12, 2025, and closed its Regrade restaurant on December 12, 2025, citing rising food and labor costs, while confirming the Seattle Center Armory and Sea-Tac Airport locations would remain open.

Seattle Center's own venue directory, checked 2026-09-08, continued to list Skillet Counter as an active food-and-drink option inside the Armory. The company's branded website returned an error page for this specific location during the same check, though the Armory counter itself remained listed as open.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 19

Episode 29
Air date not confirmed
Title: Neighborhood Hangouts · What was featured: Counter-service diner food from Seattle's Skillet restaurant group
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 19 Food Paradise

Season 19: 102 of 146 still open · 6 renamed, moved or under new owners

All 19 Season 19 episodes →

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. capitolhillseattle.com https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/11/shutdown-of-capitol-hills-original-skillet-diner-part-of-chains-downsizing/
  2. seattlecenter.com https://www.seattlecenter.com/explore/food-and-drink/skillet-counter
  3. skilletfood.com https://www.skilletfood.com/restaurant/seattle-center/
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Record fp-1648 · checked by Cal Marchetti.