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Is Southern Kitchen Restaurant Still Open? (Tacoma, WA)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 6 Tacoma, Washington

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Southern Kitchen Restaurant is listed open on southernkitchen-tacoma.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: A site check on 2026-09-08 showed the restaurant's own site live with an active online-ordering widget and no expired content. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Food Network) featured Southern Kitchen Restaurant in the episode "Homestyle," aired 2009-06-01, spotlighting the Tacoma diner's Southern comfort cooking. Southern Kitchen has operated from a storefront on Sixth Avenue in Tacoma, and its own site describes it as the only restaurant using that name in the city. A site check of southernkitchen-tacoma.com on 2026-09-08 showed an active online-ordering button, a VIP loyalty sign-up, and a catering page alongside the restaurant's home and contact pages. The same check listed a working phone number and the restaurant's Sixth Avenue address, with no expired seasonal content or stale promotions on the page. The restaurant continues to be listed under the Southern Kitchen name at 1703 6th Avenue, the address featured in the original 2009 episode.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 6

Episode 8
Aired
Title: Homestyle · What was featured: Southern comfort cooking served diner-style
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  1. southernkitchen-tacoma.com https://www.southernkitchen-tacoma.com
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Record ddd-0225 · checked by Cal Marchetti.