Is Sophia's Restaurant Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 8 Buffalo, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, Sophia's Restaurant is listed open on sophias-restaurant.com, reviewed by our team on September 15, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: A business-profile site last updated September 2026 lists current hours and an active menu, and Buffalo Rising reported in February 2024 that the restaurant had reopened in an expanded space. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 8, Episode 7
- Aired
- Address 715 Military Road, Buffalo, NY 14216
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Sophia's Restaurant in the episode titled And The Kicker Is.. (aired 2010-02-15), spotlighting the restaurant's scratch-made comfort food. Sophia's Restaurant is a breakfast, lunch, and dinner restaurant at 715 Military Road in Buffalo, New York, seating up to 150 guests, according to a community-maintained business-profile site, sophias-restaurant.com, which also lists the restaurant as having relocated from a smaller original Military Street address to this larger space, formerly the site of Catch 22. According to Buffalo Rising, which reported in February 2024, Sophia's had reopened in an improved, expanded space.
The sophias-restaurant.com page, last updated in September 2026, lists current hours and menu items including French toast and corned beef hash, and links to active Facebook, Tripadvisor, and Yelp pages. No name change or ownership change beyond the relocation described above was identified in the material reviewed for this record.
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Sources we checked
- sophias-restaurant.com https://sophias-restaurant.com/
- buffalorising.com https://www.buffalorising.com/2024/02/sophias-one-of-the-best-is-back-and-even-better-than-before/
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Record ddd-0300 · checked by Cal Marchetti.