What Happened to Tecolote Café After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 3 Santa Fe, New Mexico
Current status
As of October 2026, Tecolote Café has closed — confirmed via dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com, November 20, 2025.
What the source shows: A DDD-locations tracking listing updated 2025-11-20 lists Tecolote Cafe's phone number and address permanently closed; the business's own Facebook page has also posted a closure announcement citing the owners' health. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 3, Episode 3
- Aired
- Address 1203 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505
- 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 Tecolote Café during the 'Regional Favorites' episode for its blue corn pancakes and red-and-green chile breakfast specialties. The cafe operated as a Mexican-inspired diner on Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico, known for a scratch breakfast and lunch menu built around New Mexican chile. The restaurant later relocated to St. Michael's Drive, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican. A tracking listing updated 2025-11-20 marks the restaurant's phone number and address permanently closed, and the business's Facebook page has posted a closure notice citing the owners' health as a factor in the decision. Tecolote first opened on Cerrillos Road in 1980 under founders Bill and Alice Jennison, whose daughter Katie and her husband Matt Adkins later took over the business, according to the Santa Fe Reporter's coverage of the closure.
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Sources we checked
- dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com https://www.dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com/tecolote-cafe-new-mexico.html
- santafenewmexican.com https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/tecolote-caf-reopens-on-st-michael-s-drive/article_30bdb4dd-433e-5b42-a074-4e2cb42b0ef6.html
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tecoloteSantaFe/
- sfreporter.com https://sfreporter.com/food/tecolote-cafe-closes/
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Record ddd-0091 · checked by Cal Marchetti.