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What Happened to Spring Street Smoke House After Mystery Diners?

Mystery Diners, Season 6 Los Angeles, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Spring Street Smoke House is listed closed on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 14, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact with the business.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing for Spring Street Smokehouse at 640 N Spring St in Downtown Los Angeles -- the address matching this business across Apple Maps, DoorDash, and Tripadvisor -- is marked permanently closed, updated June 2026. How we decide a status →

We have not confirmed map coordinates for this address yet.

About this show's format: Described as staged/scripted by Wikipedia's article, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report. Surface this note on every record.

What happened after Mystery Diners?

Mystery Diners (Food Network) investigated Spring Street Smoke House, a restaurant identified in the episode as being in Los Angeles, after owner Chris said his supply of valuable beef fat trimmings kept coming up short and suspected staff of taking them. Wikipedia's article on the series describes Mystery Diners as an operation run by host Charles Stiles that goes undercover at restaurants, at the owners' request, using hidden cameras and staged interactions to document suspected problems. According to IMDb's summary of "Trimming the Fat" (aired April 17, 2014), Mystery Diners investigators Amber and Grant went undercover to find out what was happening to the trimmings; the available description covers the setup of the investigation but does not detail what Stiles told the owner afterward or what change, if any, followed.

Wikipedia's article on the series, citing its sources, separately notes that the program carries a disclaimer that certain events were re-enacted for dramatic purposes and describes a television critic's assessment that some of the show's scenarios and outcomes can appear implausible or staged. A mapping search for the business name returned The Smoke House Restaurant, a Burbank steakhouse whose own website, smokehouse1946.com, dates the business to 1946 and does not mention a Spring Street or downtown Los Angeles location or the name "Spring Street Smoke House." Because that appears to be a different, unrelated restaurant, no current address, hours, or operating status for the Spring Street Smoke House actually featured in the episode could be confirmed across the show.

The episode Mystery Diners, Season 6

Aired
Title: Trimming the Fat · What was featured: Owner suspected employees were stealing valuable beef fat trimmings
How Mystery Diners restaurants have fared: 55% closed →

Also in Season 6 Mystery Diners

Season 6: 5 of 13 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners

All 13 Season 6 episodes →

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. imdb.com https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3647840/
  2. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Diners
  3. smokehouse1946.com https://www.smokehouse1946.com/
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Record md-062 · checked by Cal Marchetti.